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In Brazil:

Mom who killed boyfriend and cut off his genitals after catching him raping her daughter is cleared of murder

One cheer for "decarceration."

Now for the bad news: Reading the details of the murder -- she killed her own romantic/sexual partner, and somehow she was able to slip a mickey into a drink and drug this guy while he was "raping her daughter" -- makes me think she just killed this guy out of jealousy and contrived the "raping my daughter" story to justify it.

An enraged mom who cut off her boyfriend's testicles and then set fire to his body after catching him trying to rape her daughter has been cleared of his murder.

Erica Pereira da Silveria Vicente confessed to killing partner Everton Amaro de Silva in Minas Gerais, Brazil -- saying she was just trying to protect her 11-year-old daughter from being raped, according to Estado de Minas.

She was alerted by alarming texts the predator sent the preteen -- then found him on top of her, trying to rape her, when rushing to her screaming daughter, according to the reports.

However, prosecutors insisted that the brutality of the murder proved it was carried out "not in blind rage but with cold premeditation."

The mom allegedly spiked de Silva's drink with Klonopin, a medication used to treat seizures, and then stabbed and clubbed him while he was unconscious, according to prosecutors.

Do rapists often take a drink mid-rape? Does a drugged drink work quickly enough to end a rape mid-rape?

I just ran some scientific tests on this story and my beakers and Erlenmeyer Flasks tell me that this story is forty seven moles of bullshit.

I don't know what happened here, but I know it's not what this woman is claiming happened.

A teen who heard screams helped the mom carry the body to wasteland in Belo Horizonte -- where Vicente cut off the dead man's genitals and set fire to his body, jurors were told.

...

She confessed to the killing -- but insisted it was only to save her daughter.

The jury agreed, and the mom was acquitted Tuesday of aggravated homicide and destroying a corpse after just one day of testimony.

The Gay Mafia got a black basketball player let go from the Chicago Bulls for stating that Pride Month -- a celebration of gay sex and kink -- was "unrighteous."

Jaden Ivey didn't last long with the Chicago Bulls before he was waived, let go, or whatever polite term is being used these days to fire someone. It came after he posted a video sharing his thoughts on Pride Month and the NBA.


In it, Ivey spoke openly about his Christian faith and took issue with the league's promotion of Pride Month. He called it unrighteous. He questioned why that message is celebrated so openly while opposing views seem to carry consequences.

By the end of the day, the video was everywhere.

Not long after that, the Bulls announced they were waiving him for what they described as conduct detrimental to the team.

That is the official explanation.

He's coming off an injury but it can't be doubted that political pressure was brought to bear here. Video here.

In this clip, another basketball player says he doesn't want to "go deep" into a question about his religion because of the Jaden Ivey situation, because "I don't wanna get waived."

I'm sure Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro will protest this use of corporate-governmental power to squelch black men's rights.

Democrats don't know how to relate to normal healthy people. But they figure that talking about their psychological problems will make them seem relatable.

Some potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates are introducing themselves to voters in a striking way: by documenting their childhood resentments, family chaos and fights with their parents.

Why it matters: Many presidential hopefuls carry painful memories from complicated childhoods. But few have discussed them as openly as Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Their frankness about their formative years and family dynamics is a way to shape their public stories before journalists do. It's also a sign of shifting taboos and a growing desire for candidates to appear relatable to voters.

Newsom grew up as private-school twat and family friend of the Getty's, and Pritzker is an obese billionaire nepo baby. I don't know if Josh Shapiro is a rich bitch --

-- update, just got an email from Tucker Carlson, saying, "Look at his last name. Look at his little hat. You know he's rich." Well I'll take that under consideration, Cuck.

They desperately need to show that they've "struggled" in life so out comes the stories of dyslexia and... fights with their parents?

What?

Your daddy wouldn't let you borrow the new Beemer -- just the old one, last year's model without the heated seats -- and you had yourself a sulk and so now you understand the daily grind of the common people?

Can I impress upon you the Healing Power of Shutting the Fuck Up?

You're probably not going to believe me, but a black female Democrat involved in the "Equity" grift turns out to be a fraudster and criminal thief.

Man, I did not have that on today's Bingo card. (Just yesterday's, tomorrow's, and Easter's.)

Last August, I told you the story of a close associate of then-Mayor London Breed named Sheryl Davis. Ms Davis had been on the rocket glide path to San Fran prominence as a member of the city's Human Rights Commission, eventually rising to become its head.

The SF Human Rights Commission, under Ms. Davis's leadership, had a $44M annual budget, which was scheduled to shrink amid the city's 2025-26 money woes to around $28M. Still pretty healthy cha-ching by any measure.

In 2021, in the aftermath of the St. George Floyd incident, she had also been personally tapped by Mayor Breed to lead a multimillion-dollar feel-good investment (described as 'tens of millions of dollars') that the city was making in the black community, dubbed the 'Dream Keeper Initiative.'

A huge pile of money earmarked for a completely vague purpose whose efficacy cannot be proven nor disproven given to a political crony who owes her position only to grifting?!

I see no (intentional) accountability holes here whatsoever!!!

...

The San Francisco Chronicle discovered a $10,000 tab paid for by the Human Rights Commission for a Martha's Vineyard cottage rental. Worse, the invoice had been split, seemingly to evade limits on travel claims, and even worse yet, they had the email from Ms. Davis asking for the workaround.

It snowballed from there.

the ten grand invoice was reportedly for interns (!) in the city's Dream Keeper program who were attending a conference on *checks notes* Martha's Vineyard.
the SF Standard reported that Human Rights Commission executive director Sheryl Davis had signed off on $1.5 million in grants to a nonprofit led by a man she lived with, one James Spingola
the Human Rights Commission's Dream Keeper Initiative had granted a total of $7.5 million to Spingola's Collective Impact nonprofit.
Sheryl Davis got $19,000 in city money for her son's UCLA grad school tuition, as the Chronicle reports.
Spingola's non-profit, Collective Impact, got $27 million in city grants, gave first-class airfare to Davis to promote her book and podcast, plus another $5,000 for Oakland soul singer Goapele to perform at Davis's book launch party.
Davis was Collective Impact's executive director before taking the Human Rights Commission job

The wheels of justice move slowly, but this past Monday, Sheryl Davis surrendered to face 57 pages of legal sheet music.


Once San Francisco's most powerful civil rights watchdog, Sheryl Davis continued her spectacular fall on Monday when she surrendered to authorities to face accusations that she misappropriated funds and engaged in "pervasive" self-dealing while leading a landmark initiative meant to benefit the city's Black community.

See the link for more.

I'm sure she'll explain that she personally paid for the trip to Martha's Vinyard but has no bank transactions to prove it because she paid it out of the huge sums of cash she keeps hidden in the house because her daddy told her that was a great way to store wealth.

Liberal "man" at a No Kings rally says he's wearing Scarlet Whore lipstick because someone told him that wearing lipstick was a historic show of resistance to Hitler. He then explained he was walking around with a 12 inch butt plug in his rectum because his friend also told him that Anal Training was the "highest form of patriotism."

Say her name:

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

SAY HER NAME: Kembery Chirinos Flores

Kembery, a 24yo California mother, was reportedly shot and m*rdered by two illegal aliens, Gerzon Chirinos-Munguia and Alfonso Inestroza.

Chirinos-Munguia was previously arrested for domestic battery in 2019 but California officials RELEASED him instead of giving him to ICE.

Inestroza was wanted for ANOTHER m*rder in NJ at the time of his arrest.

An innocent mother is DEAD because these criminal illegals were allowed to walk the streets.

When all of the prisoners are set free, all of the citizens must lock themselves up:

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

MAN WITH NEARLY 40 ARRESTS TERRORIZES NC CITY

Residents of Raleigh, NC, are OUTRAGED that Brice Lewis Forman, a man with at least 39 PRIOR arrests, continues to be let out of jail to terrorize the community.

Forman has previous charges for assault, theft, trespassing, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and concealed weapons.

How is this justice???


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:05 PM




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1 NATO stands for spending more US tax dollars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

3 Newsrooms wife is a piece of work

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (FtULh)

4 3 Newsrooms wife is a piece of work
Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (FtULh


LOL... Autocucumber....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 06:08 PM (FtULh)

5 I hate it when reality beats the worst movies I can find.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 06:10 PM (Sco7b)

6 M O O N, that spells NATO.

Posted by: Tom Cullen, future NY Times Editorial Board member at April 03, 2026 06:11 PM (skR0U)

7 My guess from the story is it was post rape and she had no physical power on him until the drugging.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2026 06:12 PM (n5tGW)

8 On the plus side, I'm pretty sure Pearll Warren and Newsom's wife would spank me for my white transgressions.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 06:12 PM (Sco7b)

9 Don't you kill them AFTER cutting off their genitals? I feel like she really screwed up the correct order.

Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 06:14 PM (q177U)

10 >>> My guess from the story is it was post rape and she had no physical power on him until the drugging.

but she claims she saved her daughter from the rape.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)

11 Mrs. Newsom touring "red states" to see what racism looks like is pretty rich. I've lived in Birmingham AL. I've been to a HBCU home football game as the only white dude in the stands.

Boston is far and away the most racist town I've ever experienced. Full stop. It's almost like the black population doesn't even coexist with the utterly disgusting snooty white people that live there.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (WYStd)

12 Possible she saw him creeping on her daughter some previous night, and then made the plot to roofie him

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (gKWVE)

13 Shes plsyed a witch queen in tales of empire

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (bXbFr)

14 I just ran some scientific tests on this story and my beakers and Erlenmeyer Flasks tell me that this story is forty seven moles of bullshit.

47M Bullshit is a pretty high concentration.

Might be 'Fuming' Bullshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:16 PM (bss/y)

15 These people are lunatics.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 06:16 PM (XV/Pl)

16 There is a video of Charlie Kirk saying he has nice contact with NBA and other professional athletes but they don't want to publicize it iirc.

Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (YwEeS)

17 Public Service Announcement:

Mayor London Breed is NOT the actual mayor of London.

Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (q177U)

18 When all of the prisoners are set free, all of the citizens must lock themselves up:

There is another way. -- Vlad III

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)

19 10 >>> My guess from the story is it was post rape and she had no physical power on him until the drugging.

but she claims she saved her daughter from the rape.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)

He probably wasn't raping her...

People suck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (bss/y)

20 Pearll Warren....from Minneapolis!! And a poet!!

A mother of seven (she adopted her eldest grandchild) and grandmother to six, her professional career has included work in housing, environmental justice, clean energy and literacy. Earlier this month, she was sworn in as her community’s voice on the Minneapolis City Council, replacing Jeremiah Ellison, who did not seek re-election.

Ward 5’s New Council Member Pearll Warren is never at a loss for words. In fact, she’s among the best Spoken Word Artists in the country, having placed 14th in a global competition back in 2014. “I competed in the women’s National Poetry Slam, against 72 other women,” recalls Warren, who still performs today. “It’s my art. It’s my medicine. It’s my therapy. It gave me a diction for my experiences to really capture my emotions or my vantage point.




Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (Sco7b)

21 There's no way they can run Newsom in 28. Forget the mountains of evidence of fraud and mismanagement in CA, Gavin and his wife are two of the creepiest people on the planet.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)

22 18 When all of the prisoners are set free, all of the citizens must lock themselves up:

There is another way. -- Vlad III
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (ExV1e)

Word.

Posted by: The Punisher at April 03, 2026 06:18 PM (bss/y)

23 Played, not a stretch

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 06:18 PM (bXbFr)

24 Every once in a while, this site jumps. So this went on the willowed thread:

What would we do without DEI Media "Elites"?
_______
They're not dumb, like everybody says. They're SMART!

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 06:18 PM (AlhUl)

25 Ace did you see the Ryan Long video he made at a No Kings rally? It was on one of the ONT hilarious.

Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2026 06:19 PM (YwEeS)

26 Time to stop screwing around President Muffley. We have advanced weapons in our arsenal to do the job without ground invasion...

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The neutron release generated by a nuclear fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components.[3] The neutron burst, which is used as the primary destructive action of the warhead, is able to penetrate enemy armor more effectively than a conventional warhead, thus making it more lethal as a tactical weapon.

Posted by: General Jack Ripper at April 03, 2026 06:19 PM (My2aF)

27 >>>25 Ace did you see the Ryan Long video he made at a No Kings rally? It was on one of the ONT hilarious.

no i missed it, i'll find it now.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 06:19 PM (1wjle)

28 Who are those "evil" people?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2026 06:20 PM (Cqx++)

29 Ok, fair. pic.twitter.com/893bHEcz1L

Did the person in the original tweet think that was a gotcha?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:20 PM (ExV1e)

30 but she claims she saved her daughter from the rape.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 06:14 PM (1wjle)


Just setting the narrative for the Netflix movie.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:21 PM (ExV1e)

31 Looks like a on purpose mistake

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:21 PM (Ia/+0)

32 Cutting off genitals is very medieval and very fair in this case.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 06:22 PM (aTgV0)

33 but she claims she saved her daughter from the rape. >>>

I'm thinking she caught him doing it and stopped it by walking in which is all she could do at the time. Or she could have just murdered him too, but the article as written doesn't make sense.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2026 06:22 PM (n5tGW)

Is This Something?

Before that: Iran began launching missiles at the area of the crash in order to kill the pilots and any special forces sent to retrieve them.

They also shot small arms fire at search and rescue helicopters.

There is a claim that the second pilot was found and flown back to a base in Iraq. I have searched for someone apart from this one rando account claiming this, and have found nothing. So I wouldn't believe it.

Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
@BabakTaghvaee1
BREAKING: According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.

He ejected, survived the crash, and is now safe in Iraq.

This is good news for the 48th Fighter Wing community at RAF Lakenheath--both crew members of the downed F-15E are now safe.

Also, the crew members of the second HH-60W helicopter involved in the rescue operation of the second crew member, which was shot upon by means of MANPADS, are also safe.

This is the kind of news which, if true, would be shouted from all five corners of the Pentagon.

I wouldn't even post this but it's being retweeted and I figure everyone will hear about it. If you see an official source confirming this, please let me know.

Now, on to the silly crap.

A full-length trailer from Backrooms. It's a lot like House of Leaves, if you read that. I read a hundred pages and decided "I get the gist."

It looks like Uncanny Places are this season's New Hotness.

The Most Dangerous Girlboss. I would say it's something I would see except 1, I don't like Charlize Theron, 2, it's a Netflix movie and you know that's the Mark of Quality, and 3, I'm just so tired of girlbosses I just can't take a movie with a female lead involving danger from a predatory male. That kind of movie should be perfectly acceptable, but you know, at some point you hit your limit on them.

The Lonely Island guys are somehow involved in this husband-and-wife-try-to-murder-each-other comedy.

A comedy-western with John C. Reilly. I don't know what this one is going for.

They're doing a Malcolm in the Middle sequel series on Hulu.

Jonah Hill looks bizarre:

(Whoops, I first wrote "Jonah Goldberg looks bizarre," which is true, but irrelevant.)

Finally -- at long last, Sidney Sweeney and Ana de Armas in Brokeback Mountain 2.

Not really.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:56 PM




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1 first?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (0N4FZ)

2 I've seen the scissors trailer. They are trying way too hard.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (0N4FZ)

3 1st?

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (j10i6)

4 Ugh...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (j10i6)

5 Everybody must be at the bar...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:59 PM (j10i6)

6 Did you know that if you connect things together correctly, they work? Just FYI.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2026 04:59 PM (CHHv1)

7
Scissors. Heh.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 05:03 PM (IifOV)

8 LMAO....how far down the toilet is Hollywood that it's difficult to determine if the official trailers are just that, or parodies of worn out tropes?

Seriously, when Hathaway was doing her overly dramatic line there, I was waiting for the kid to do some SNL punchline in their "surprise! it's a comedy" fashion.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)

9 A full-length trailer from Backrooms. It's a lot like House of Blue Leaves, if you read that. I read a hundred pages and decided "I get the gist."
---
Do you mean "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski?

That's about a house that turns out to be an eldritch location.

"House of Blue Leaves" is a play about a zookeeper who wants to make it big in Hollywood as a songwriter.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:04 PM (ESVrU)

10 Enough is Enough.............

Trump needs to bomb all Goat Farms which will end the war within 24 hours !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 05:04 PM (38587)

11 It's a movie thread then?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:05 PM (4NO2D)

12 The Most Dangerous Girlboss. I would say it's something I would see except 1, I don't like Charlize Theron

Sound judgement. She's a monster in real life.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 05:05 PM (Y8DZL)

13 No word on the second pilot from any of the 'news' stations at the top of the hour.

Dems want to Impeach President Trump. When you only have a hammer.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:05 PM (Sco7b)

14 So you’re saying @BabakTaghvaee1 may not be the most reliable source of information?

*takes notes*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 05:06 PM (6ydKt)

15 "Backrooms" looks kind it should be a "Channel Zero" miniseries.

In fact, Season Two of "Channel Zero" involves a living dimension that consumes those who enter it via a surreal haunted house of sorts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:06 PM (ESVrU)

16 I cracked a rip from laughing while watching the Brokeback Mountain 2 trailer. Totally worth it.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at April 03, 2026 05:07 PM (glnUu)

17 Skip saves site showing sailing ship sighting

Posted by: banana Dream - say that three times fast at April 03, 2026 05:07 PM (3uBP9)

18 >>>Do you mean "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski?

oh yeah I meant that. BTW, I originally wrote "House of Leaves" and then thought, "I got that wrong, it's house of BLUE Leaves."

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)

19 Until verified, don't believe it.


Did read another would be Jihadist was shot and killed after crashing into a patrol car then pulling a knife on the officer.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 05:07 PM (Ia/+0)

20 I've seen the scissors trailer. They are trying way too hard.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (0N4FZ)

You didn't come here for the acting

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 05:08 PM (NtVYv)

21
Not "Running With Scissors Hill"?

I am disappoint!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (xG4kz)

22 Everybody must be at the bar...
Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04

I might like to be at the bar. Instead I'm home recovering after a Good Friday service.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (ZeH0U)

23 Praying it's true about the 2nd pilot.

and them putting Weinstein in that trailer gave me a chuckle.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (n5tGW)

24
"House of Blue Leaves" is a play about a zookeeper who wants to make it big in Hollywood as a songwriter...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:04 PM (ESVrU)

...but is foiled when the studio execs realize his skills are better suited to keeping the """talent""" from escaping their kennels, darting them with thorazine when they get spooked by loud noises, tazing them when they bite, and so on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (BI5O2)

25 Anne Hathaway is still hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (bss/y)

26 Scissors Hill looks great even though it needs a few more asian women.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:11 PM (Sco7b)

27 oh yeah I meant that. BTW, I originally wrote "House of Leaves" and then thought, "I got that wrong, it's house of BLUE Leaves."

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:07 PM (1wjle)
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The Wikipedia page for "House of Blue Leaves" even has a disclaimer at the top:

"Not to be confused with House of Leaves."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:11 PM (ESVrU)

28 Re: the Charlize Theron movie, the first comment on YooToob for the trailer said, "Netflix just made 'Would you rather be alone in a jungle with a man or a bear' into a film."

Charlize is a beautiful creature and a fine actress. But if it's going to emphasize the girlboss business, I'll pass (when it comes out on DVD, if it does).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

29 WTF happened to Masturbatin' Pete? I know he was acting like an asshole and Ace (rightly) perma-banned him, but what made him go around the bend? I remember him posting in the past, and he was never the contrary asshole of recent memory. Possible alien abduction? Zombie infestation? AI bot impersonation? I'm baffled.

Posted by: a.moron at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (X5Jzz)

30 Jonah Hill looks bizarre:

No doubt,
He looks like an balding Keannu Reeves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (6ydKt)

31 House of Blues > House of Blue Leaves

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (n5tGW)

32
A full-length trailer from Backrooms.

Finally!

We have a safe place to stick all illegal aliens and we don't even have to deport them!

This is great news.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (iJfKG)

33 25 Anne Hathaway is still hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03

There is something very classic about her looks, and she is aging very well. With help, but I don’t have qualms about that when done well.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (OoFl2)

34 House of Leaves or House of Blue Leaves? These are two very different things.

Posted by: banana Dream - say that three times fast at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (3uBP9)

35 wait what anne hathaway movie did I link? I SAW a trailer for an anne hathaway movie but didn't link it because it didn't seem interesting. Did I actually link it?

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (1wjle)

36 29 WTF happened to Masturbatin' Pete? I know he was acting like an asshole and Ace (rightly) perma-banned him, but what made him go around the bend? I remember him posting in the past, and he was never the contrary asshole of recent memory. Possible alien abduction? Zombie infestation? AI bot impersonation? I'm baffled.
Posted by: a.moron at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (X5Jzz)

I honestly do not remember enough of him to know. I just knew the name.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (bss/y)

37
Harvey Weinstein as the lead "looker" was hilarious

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (xG4kz)

38 Not to be a downer on a Friday heading into a holiday weekend but …

… none of those somethings look like anything. Zero interest in all of them. If the trailer is stupid and boring, what does that make the movie?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (jB7fc)

39 " Anne Hathaway is still hot."

So am I!

Posted by: Rob Reiner IN HELL at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

40 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

41 Brokeback 2
Nice!!

Ai movies are tight.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (Vb3xW)

42 25 Anne Hathaway is still hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:09 PM (bss/y)
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Regardless of the sophomoric comments this will solicit, I'd like to point out that Anne Hathaway has, perhaps, the biggest mouth in film. (not a reference to what she says, but the physical size of her mouth. It's humungous.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (dIske)

43 35 wait what anne hathaway movie did I link? I SAW a trailer for an anne hathaway movie but didn't link it because it didn't seem interesting. Did I actually link it?
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (1wjle)

Are you having a stroke? Do you smell toast?

The End of Oak street has anne hathaway... as the mom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (bss/y)

44 oh she's in the Oak Street movie. She's also in some other upcoming movie i almost linked.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (1wjle)

45 Well of course Sidney and Ana’s rifles didn’t work on the deer.

They’re shooting blanks.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (6ydKt)

46 MP has been around now and then.

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (vFG9F)

47 Posted by: a.moron at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (X5Jzz)

I don't want to say I set him off, but you make one innocent reference to Iran becoming glass and things escalate....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:15 PM (Sco7b)

48
Not to be a downer on a Friday heading into a holiday weekend but …

… none of those somethings look like anything. Zero interest in all of them. If the trailer is stupid and boring, what does that make the movie?
Posted by: Elric the Blade


Vapid and pointless

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:15 PM (xG4kz)

49 i liked in the Sydney Sweeney/Ana de Armas movie, they try to hide the affair from their husbands but the husbands are both very supportive.

See, men can be nice.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:15 PM (1wjle)

50 Why oh why did i eat my moon pie before my cheesy crackers?

I mean, i know exactly why. I'm just lamenting my poor decisions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (VR4+k)

51 oh she's in the Oak Street movie. She's also in some other upcoming movie i almost linked.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (1wjle

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Bruh.

No need to brag about your sex tapes.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (hAotW)

52 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:11 PM (wzUl9)

How was the lecture and lunch?

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (lQ+/f)

53 House of Blue Leaves is a 1970s off-broadway play comedy.


House of Leaves is the 2000 Danielewski novel including with looping self referential off-tangent nested plots. And a house where any dimension is not a function of any other dimension. Hallways can go for miles, rooms are bigger than the room or house that contains them, etc...

Posted by: banana Dream - say that three times fast at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (3uBP9)

54 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE)
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That trailer was lame.

Looks like a street was somehow teleported in time/space to when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.

Land of the Lost (television) probably did it better.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (ESVrU)

55 40 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE)

So.... the twist is that Oak Street is actually Oak Circle, and all the mailbox numbers are out of order?

Spooky.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (VR4+k)

56 I might like to be at the bar. Instead I'm home recovering after a Good Friday service.
Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026


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I'm home recovering from my exposure to Western paternalism and imperialism toward Korean orphans, as "explained" by an anti-American professor. There was a free lunch -- shrimp or chicken po-boys, plus french fries; and she was surprisingly attractive. I mean, I was expecting some middle-aged battleaxe with close-cropped silver hair; but she was youngish, slim, and well-spoken, with long black hair and wearing a nice black dress and high heels (!).

She herself, she mentioned, was a Korean adoptee. Instead of being grateful to her adopted country for all the advantages she's had, she complains about American soldiers creating a Korean adoption "industry." Oh, well, the drive there and back was pleasant and the food was, did I mention it was free?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

57 I like the part where the girls are shooting the rifles.
Pretty funny.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (UjdFS)

58 Land of the Lost (television) probably did it better.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (ESVrU)

___________________

Jerk!!! Now I have that Theme song in my brain.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (dIske)

59 Ace,

U.S. Central Command (centcom dot mil) hasn't put out a public release since March 31st.

>Al Jazeera has the following, 1st posted 3 hours ago:
WATCH: What we know about the US fighter jet shot down in Iran.

It's roughly a minute and a half in length. The message of the news anchor chilled my blood.

Also, 1 hour ago - 'US media says 2 US helicopters involved in rescue mission were hit'
The US media is now reporting a US official as saying that two US helicopters involved in search-and-rescue operations for the downed pilots were hit by Iranian fire.

It has many more "developments" posted, one of which is one of the two helicopters, above, has also been downed.

As always, hard to say what's real.
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Lastly, it has also reported today: News
Drone strike on Sudan hospital kills 10, medical charity MSF says
Two strikes on Al Jabalain Hospital in White Nile State hit an operating theatre and a maternity ward, MSF says.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (NFX2v)

60
Regardless of the sophomoric comments this will solicit, I'd like to point out that Anne Hathaway has, perhaps, the biggest mouth in film. (not a reference to what she says, but the physical size of her mouth. It's humungous.
Posted by: Orson


Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts are no slouches in the Wide Mouth department, either.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (xG4kz)

61 If that's secunds air crew persin is Gay that's Trump butter gets them out of that's Iran place immederanty !!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (nZNS1)

62 50 Why oh why did i eat my moon pie before my cheesy crackers?

I mean, i know exactly why. I'm just lamenting my poor decisions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (VR4+k)


Just finish your RC Cola and be happy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (skR0U)

63 House of Leaves or House of Blue Leaves? These are two very different things.
Posted by: banana Dream
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Hmm. 'Behind the Door', vs.'Behind the Green Door'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (XeU6L)

64 54 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE


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Produced by him, not written or directed.

It's made by the guy who made It Follows. I'm looking forward to it.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (hAotW)

65
The Lonely Island guys are somehow involved in this husband-and-wife-try-to-murder-each-other comedy

This is a remake of another Netflix foreign movie. (Quality Guarranteed!).

This is one where almost certainly you can get your fill of comedy anal rape.

In the furren flick, it was just (mostly) a threat to control the husband character by the criminals. From the reviews, I gather they go ahead and rape the husband in the remake.

Does this mean we're going to get a comedy remake of "The Accused" next year?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (iJfKG)

66 50 Why oh why did i eat my moon pie before my cheesy crackers?

I mean, i know exactly why. I'm just lamenting my poor decisions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (VR4+k)

Could you eat a second moon pie after you eat the cheesy crackers?

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (fNISR)

67 I don't want to say I set him off, but you make one innocent reference to Iran becoming glass and things escalate....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:15 PM (Sco7b)

Piper's comment also put a bur in his britches, I think.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (Y1sOo)

68 Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts are no slouches in the Wide Mouth department, either.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (xG4kz)
_________________________

You aren't kidding. If you put those three in a room, dig up Monty Hall....we could do a reboot of "Let's make a Deal."

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (dIske)

69 Danielewski's sister Poe wrote an album to go with his book and it's pretty good. I liked both her albums.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (3uBP9)

70 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

Thanks. I'm glad she was attractive and the lunch was free. Did Miss Linda have any comments on the talk?

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 05:20 PM (lQ+/f)

71 I remember some humor site making a lesbian Brokeback Mountain spoof where the husbands are trying to get their wives together and then sneak in to watch so that joke has been around for a while

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 05:21 PM (sKqQm)

72 67 Piper's comment also put a bur in his britches, I think.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (Y1sOo

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Dude can't move on from Iraq, and he just wanted to make sure everyone knew, in no uncertain terms, that he was incapable of taking in new information or moving on.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:21 PM (hAotW)

73 Danielewski's sister Poe wrote an album to go with his book and it's pretty good. I liked both her albums.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (3uBP9)
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Have his book, and I *want* to read it, but it takes serious effort because it's not written like normal novels.

There's heavy meta-elements to the story in the way the book is laid out and designed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:21 PM (ESVrU)

74 There is only one Brokeback Mountain II. Accept no substitutes.

https://tinyurl.com/4xwkv5t5

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (4NO2D)

75 I think if the Homo Ragheads have the WSO he would be broadcast all over TV stations like they did in 1979...

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (38587)

76 Land of the Lost (television) probably did it better.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (ESVrU)

Wasn’t there a TV show recently where people got transported back to the dinosaur age?

‘La Brea’ or something?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (6ydKt)

77 Before that: Iran began launching missiles at the area of the crash in order to kill the pilots and any special forces sent to retrieve them.

They also shot small arms fire at search and rescue helicopters.


Seeing as I'm an experienced 29 year old I remember when a claim was raised that Bush 41 shot at Japanese in a life boat during WWII, and the left at the time argued that any attack on people in this sort of survivor situation was a serious war crime.

Why do I expect they will give Iran a pass here?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (sKqQm)

78
Dude can't move on from Iraq, and he just wanted to make sure everyone knew, in no uncertain terms, that he was incapable of taking in new information or moving on.
Posted by: TJM's phone


Don't neglect his "23 years (a slave to AoSHQ)!" schtick.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (xG4kz)

79 Well of course Sidney and Ana’s rifles didn’t work on the deer.

They’re shooting blanks.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

Squirt guns.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (UjdFS)

80 Are you having a stroke? Do you smell toast?

The End of Oak street has anne hathaway... as the mom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026


***
Mmmm . . . toast . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (wzUl9)

81 66 50 Why oh why did i eat my moon pie before my cheesy crackers?

I mean, i know exactly why. I'm just lamenting my poor decisions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (VR4+k)

Could you eat a second moon pie after you eat the cheesy crackers?
Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (fNISR)

... in celebration of the Artemis II mission.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:23 PM (fNISR)

82 Piper's comment also put a bur in his britches, I think.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (Y1sOo)

I'll happily be teamed up with Piper.




Now onto more important Horde business, I asked Grok this. I'll bring back the response next.

Hi Grok. It says 'Ask anything.' Which american actresses have the largest mouths physically...measurement wise?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

83 Rather than addressing the topic, or offering a different perspective, Pete made it personal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2026 05:24 PM (XeU6L)

84 >>> 64 54 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE


===

Produced by him, not written or directed.

It's made by the guy who made It Follows. I'm looking forward to it.
Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (hAotW)

Meesa good at fcuking things up no matter how is involved!!!

Posted by: JJ Binks at April 03, 2026 05:24 PM (ULPxl)

85 Oak Street?! Dammit, you were supposed to go to Maple Street!

Posted by: Boss of the Monsters at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

86 Thanks. I'm glad she was attractive and the lunch was free. Did Miss Linda have any comments on the talk?
Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026


***
Not too much. She was just glad I behaved myself while in darkest East Berlin until we got back to the American Sector.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (wzUl9)

87 Chicken Chokin' Pete was a fucking retard and he rubbed Ace the wrong way on the wrong day lol.

I thought his shtick was mostly harmless but also he clearly ate crayons for the taste.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (oqH4h)

88 Seriously, when Hathaway was doing her overly dramatic line there, I was waiting for the kid to do some SNL punchline in their "surprise! it's a comedy" fashion.
Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:04 PM (dIske)


I was expecting the whole neighborhood to be Republicans. And then it would turn into some purge-like movie about poor migrants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (ExV1e)

89 Meesa good at fcuking things up no matter how is involved!!!
Posted by: JJ Binks at April 03, 2026 05:24 PM (ULPxl)
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There's a reason Nerdrotic calls your studio "Bad REBOOT."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (ESVrU)

90 House of Leaves wasn't my favorite read. It was an interesting concept. I stuck with it to see where it was all going. You can guess my level of satisfaction with that choice.

Reading it reminded me of back when I read all the Illuminatus books to see where that was all going. Similar level of satisfaction obtained at the end of that experience.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (3uBP9)

91 Having a double of snooty Scotch.

Yep, it’s been a Scotch kind of day.

It’s at a minimum, a three double night.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (XV/Pl)

92
Why oh why did i eat my moon pie before my cheesy crackers?

I mean, i know exactly why. I'm just lamenting my poor decisions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:16 PM (VR4+k)

Could you eat a second moon pie after you eat the cheesy crackers?
Posted by: m


This is starting to sound like "Boondocks" and the Luther Burger:

The Luther Burger, featured in "The Boondocks," is a hamburger made with glazed doughnuts instead of a traditional bun.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (xG4kz)

93 91 Having a double of snooty Scotch.

Yep, it’s been a Scotch kind of day.

It’s at a minimum, a three double night.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (XV/

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I call those days the days that end in y.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (hAotW)

94 The vast majority of aircraft shot down during Iraq and Afghanistan were helicopters. Low and slow is not where you want to be in a shooting war.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (Y1sOo)

95 Notable Mentions from Popular Discussions

Here are the American actresses most frequently cited for having notably large/wide mouths (often praised for their broad, toothy smiles or full lips that make the mouth appear prominent):

Julia Roberts — Iconic for her huge, wide smile and naturally full lips (often called a "trout mouth" due to the even plumpness with minimal Cupid's bow). She's repeatedly topped or heavily featured in fan lists and articles about "actresses with large mouths." Her grin is one of the most recognizable in Hollywood for its breadth.

Angelina Jolie — Known for her full, sensual lips and wide mouth. She's a staple in "best/sexiest lips" rankings and is often compared directly to Julia Roberts for mouth prominence.

Other American actresses commonly mentioned in "large mouths" or "broad smiles" contexts include:

Cameron Diaz (wide, bright smile)
Anne Hathaway (broad, full-lipped smile)
Eva Mendes (frequently listed for large mouth features)
Scarlett Johansson (voluptuous lips contributing to a prominent mouth)

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

96 Oak Street?! Dammit, you were supposed to go to Maple Street!
Posted by: Boss of the Monsters at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (1Ff7Z)
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You should see the weird stuff that shows up on Mulberry Street!

Posted by: Dr. Seuss at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (ESVrU)

97 92 The Luther Burger, featured in "The Boondocks," is a hamburger made with glazed doughnuts instead of a traditional bun.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (xG4kz)

yum

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (fNISR)

98 61 If that's secunds air crew persin is Gay that's Trump butter gets them out of that's Iran place immederanty !!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (nZNS1)

Mary, you need therapy immediately because your Brain is a pound of mush like Blo Jiden !!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (cAEZx)

99 Instead of being grateful to her adopted country for all the advantages she's had, she complains about American soldiers creating a Korean adoption "industry."

The dirty secret about those adoptions is that a lot of the adoptees were fathered on the Koreans by US soldiers. The Koreans used the adoption industry - it was an industry - to flush the foreign genes out of their race.
The North Koreans are more overtly nativist, maybe, but they're all Koreans, coming right off a foreign occupation.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (gKWVE)

100 Hi Grok. It says 'Ask anything.' Which american actresses have the largest mouths physically...measurement wise?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

ChatGPT: "That's a great question, you're really on the right track..."

Copilot: "Here's a powershell script to analyze images for relative volume based on..."

Grok: "... the f*ck's wrong with you, man? I don't know, here's some links to tit pics, have fun i guess. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (VR4+k)

101 100

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (fNISR)

102 Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts are no slouches in the Wide Mouth department, either.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:18 PM (xG4kz)

Amateurs

Posted by: Carly Simon at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (NtVYv)

103 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (wzUl9

LOL

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (lQ+/f)

104 Don't neglect his "23 years (a slave to AoSHQ)!" schtick.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:22 PM (xG4kz)

The first 20 years is the hardest...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:28 PM (bss/y)

105 Off to church. Enjoy your evening!

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 05:28 PM (OoFl2)

106 >>>It's made by the guy who made It Follows. I'm looking forward to it.

I kinda liked Under the Silver Lake. Have other readers seen it? I can't completely recommend it because it is too indulgent. But if you like offbeat noirs, like Pychon's Crying of Lot 49 or the one with Joachim Phoenix about the pothead detective in California, you may like it. It's basically just a pastiche of Pynchon. But... good? Kinda?

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

107
My husband loves toast. I've always hated the smell of toast.

It's weird.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (3ek7K)

108 >>> Have his book, and I *want* to read it, but it takes serious effort because it's not written like normal novels.

There's heavy meta-elements to the story in the way the book is laid out and designed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:21 PM (ESVrU)


There are parts of the book that I strongly feel are not meant to be read, just looked at, scanned to evoke a feeling, like "wow, that's a lot of stuff right there boy howdy". But not to read. Random text just thrown up. I think I read it all quickly, about 2-3 days and did spend time looking through the weird stuff. But I don't think it added anything. You'll know when you get to those areas.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (3uBP9)

109 @93

>> I call those days the days that end in y.

I typically have Gimlets, which you can dial up or dial down depending on your mood.

Can’t really do much with Scotch other than control you intake.

And the way I’m feeling, it’s going to be a long and short night.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (XV/Pl)

110 If I had a nickel for every time some haji shot at a CSAR helo and hit it with small arms fire, I would be a rich man.

Don’t believe everything you hear. There is lots of disinformation coming from Iranian, Chinese, Russian and other hostile sources.

Watch the next 24 hours.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (Py+sj)

111 Relaxing here with AoSHQ and final installment of Jesus of Nazareth from 1977, with one Robert Powell as a particularly convincing Jesus and Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene. Miss Linda will be here for pizza night, and maybe we'll take in Part I of Moses the Lawgiver with Burt Lancaster.

Sunday will have Ben-Hur and The Robe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)

112
Hallways can go for miles, rooms are bigger than the room or house that contains them, etc...
Posted by: banana Dream


The house that Jack built.

https://youtu.be/4Cjr_igJIe0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (Cqx++)

113 106 >>>It's made by the guy who made It Follows. I'm looking forward to it.

I kinda liked Under the Silver Lake. Have other readers seen it? I can't completely recommend it because it is too indulgent. But if you like offbeat noirs, like Pychon's Crying of Lot 49 or the one with Joachim Phoenix about the pothead detective in California, you may like it. It's basically just a pastiche of Pynchon. But... good? Kinda?
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjlyour.


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I couldn't remember the name, but yeah. I first thought of Under the Silver Lake.

I also enjoyed it in much of the same, complex way you did.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (hAotW)

114 100 Hi Grok. It says 'Ask anything.' Which american actresses have the largest mouths physically...measurement wise?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:23 PM (Sco7b)

ChatGPT: "That's a great question, you're really on the right track..."

Copilot: "Here's a powershell script to analyze images for relative volume based on..."

Grok: "... the f*ck's wrong with you, man? I don't know, here's some links to tit pics, have fun i guess. "
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:27 PM (VR4+k)

largest mouths
-->
greatest circumference lips

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (fNISR)

115 under the silver lake trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgUesU1pz4

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (1wjle)

116 Um, whaaaaat are they doing to Keanu Reeves?
Didn’t Clooney and Nick Cage already do this kind of movie?

Aging actor realizes he’s alienated all his loved ones and now the public has moved on - introspection, within a comedic se!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (4KUe5)

117 Regardless of the sophomoric comments this will solicit, I'd like to point out that Anne Hathaway has, perhaps, the biggest mouth in film. (not a reference to what she says, but the physical size of her mouth. It's humungous.
Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 05:14 PM (dIske)


I'm standing right here. -- Julia Roberts

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (ExV1e)

118 111 Relaxing here with AoSHQ and final installment of Jesus of Nazareth from 1977, with one Robert Powell as a particularly convincing Jesus and Anne Bancroft as Mary Magdalene. Miss Linda will be here for pizza night, and maybe we'll take in Part I of Moses the Lawgiver with Burt Lancaster.

Sunday will have Ben-Hur and The Robe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9

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Go with the ultimate Easter movie.

The Exorcist.

Not a joke.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:31 PM (hAotW)

119 Pete had a dream

To be a Toilet Hobo

It seemed

His reach exceeded his grasp

Took it in the asp

Amish Dude is alive in his dream

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:31 PM (aTgV0)

120 Loved the original Malcom in the Middle tv series. I'd definitely watch the new Hulu series to start.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:31 PM (NFX2v)

121 on a happier-ish note, there is a genre of Youtube vids where Filipinos find their American dads with genetics. Sometimes the dads did want to contact their kids again but couldn't do it for good reason, like their mom was ashamed or angry so blocked that contact.
The Philippines seem less grouchy about race than some other Asian nations.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:31 PM (gKWVE)

122 106 the one with Joachim Phoenix about the pothead detective in California
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

Inherent Vice (2014)

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (fNISR)

123 120 Loved the original Malcom in the Middle tv series. I'd definitely watch the new Hulu series to start.
Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:31 PM (NFX2v

===

I'm enjoying the Scrubs revival. I have some positive hopes for the Malcolm revival.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (hAotW)

124 One gal with a really wide mouth is Anna Paulina Luna. Yes I agree she is really very beautiful. But the first time I saw a picture of her smiling my first thought was the alien chick in V eating a mouse and her jaw hinge detaching.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (3uBP9)

125 Cameron Diaz has the biggest mouth in human history.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (aTgV0)

126 122 106 the one with Joachim Phoenix about the pothead detective in California
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

Inherent Vice (2014)
Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (fNISR

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Funny.

Better than One Battle After Another.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:32 PM (hAotW)

127 >>>One gal with a really wide mouth is Anna Paulina Luna. Yes I agree she is really very beautiful.

It's just the right size, for me.

Posted by: James Bond 007 at April 03, 2026 05:33 PM (1wjle)

128 The only thing I’ve been watching lalely is Beard Meets Food, Computer Programming Videos and Megavalanche. They just posted 2026.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (XV/Pl)

129 >>>Inherent Vice (2014)

I kept thinking "Immortal Something."

Posted by: James Bond 007 at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (1wjle)

130 54 The End of Oak Street is by JJ Binks, and I refuse to watch his poo.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (gKWVE


We read that as "The End of Oak Island".

Whew...

Posted by: Rick and Marty Vagina at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (jRlwL)

131 The dirty secret about those adoptions is that a lot of the adoptees were fathered on the Koreans by US soldiers. The Koreans used the adoption industry - it was an industry - to flush the foreign genes out of their race.
The North Koreans are more overtly nativist, maybe, but they're all Koreans, coming right off a foreign occupation.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026


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Funny how this prof did not mention any of that, making it sound like it was all poor and unwed mothers being convinced -- and paid -- to hand over their kids. I wanted to point out that it takes two sides to make a deal. The South Koreans could have said "NO" to the American money and worked on creating better native social services, but they didn't. It was not only Westerners who were party to all this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (wzUl9)

132 Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)

Spoiler: The Butler did it.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (Y8DZL)

133 Piper's comment also put a bur in his britches, I think.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 05:19 PM (Y1sOo)


Constant kale references will do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (ExV1e)

134 They may have recovered him but the news is not good. They wouldn't release that info before the family is notified.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 03, 2026 05:34 PM (V4IXI)

135 Anna Paulina Luna

Every damn time I see that name I start humming that Slim Whitman song, Una Poloma Blanca. I brain weird.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 05:35 PM (0aYVJ)

136 It is physically impossible to hate the smell of toast.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:35 PM (aTgV0)

137 Comedy-Western? Didn't look like a comedy to me. You're confused? So were the commenters. Sorta looked like The Professionals, among others.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

138 As for women with wide mouths, I recall Ian Fleming having James Bond reflect positively on women with wide and sensual mouths.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

139 >> that Slim Whitman song, Una Poloma Blanca. I brain weird.

That's what I call her as well.

https://is.gd/xeGsrT

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 05:36 PM (w6EFb)

140 Wolfus Aurelius, nuance is alien to these idiots. Even when it might buttress their overall point.
At least you got food. And it was Lent-compliant food!

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:37 PM (gKWVE)

141 I thought that Frankie Muniz had gotten some kind of brain damage but I guess not. He's still working says IMDB.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:37 PM (4NO2D)

142 Amanda Peet has a purty mouth.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 05:37 PM (0aYVJ)

143 there's a great part in Inherent Vice. One of the few ones. It's not bad, exactly, just not good.


But the good part is this: You know in every detective story, where the detective is working on one case and then another and it turns out the two cases are related? Kiss Kiss Bang Bang calls this trope out explicitly.

Anyway in Inherent Vice, the detective, Joachim Phoenix, is high out of his mind. So he's paranoid. And he receives a new potential client, and starts taking notes about the case. And as the potential client tells his story, it dawns on Phoenix that this case is directly linked to the one he's already on.

And this is the funny part: Because he's high, he starts freaking out with paranoia (justified, I'd say) but also trying to hide it because he's high AF.

This is in many ways the story of JackStraw, the AOSHQ's own White Rabbit.

Posted by: James Bond 007 at April 03, 2026 05:38 PM (1wjle)

144 Bondi is out as AG? Saw what looked to be a screen copy of a DJT tweet announcing that on Apr 2.

Sorry if this was discussed at length yesterday. I took some PTO and went riding.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 03, 2026 05:38 PM (+89TD)

145 " Amanda Peet has a purty mouth.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"


Whole Nine Yards.

cute.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:38 PM (aTgV0)

146 Having a double of snooty Scotch.

My best friend gave me a bottle of 15 yo Glenlivet for my birfday. I shall be indulging in a bit of that here soon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:38 PM (ExV1e)

147 Go with the ultimate Easter movie.

The Exorcist.

Not a joke.
Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026


***
Aside from the cursing and the green vomit scene, the film is wonderfully creepy with its music and sound effects. And Max von Sydow's priest is a heroic figure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:39 PM (wzUl9)

148 @141

>> I thought that Frankie Muniz had gotten some kind of brain damage but I guess not. He's still working says IMDB.

He was on a podcast a while back, his parent did him right with his money, he also got into real estate and bought a number of parking lots in LA, he then sold the for some good money.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:39 PM (XV/Pl)

149 I thought that Frankie Muniz had gotten some kind of brain damage but I guess not. He's still working says IMDB.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026


***
He was racing cars recently, I thought.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (wzUl9)

150 I have always found Anne Hathaway to be incredibly sexy. She is not a classic beauty, but there's something about her. Maybe it's that schnozz.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (QaH55)

151 Frankie Muniz can suck my chorizo.

Posted by: Fred Savage at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)

152 The thing about a large mouth on a woman is that one part of my brain understands it may look freakishly monstrous but another part finds it very attractive. I don't even know if there's an actual limit to how large a woman's mouth could get before it stops being attractive and starts to be horrific.

The frightening thought is, maybe there isn't.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

153 I think Joaquin Phoenix is an excellent actor. I'll watch him in just about anything.

Even as a kid, he put in a solid performance in Parenthood (1989) as Garry Lampkin. In fact, the overall movie was good.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (NFX2v)

154 I honestly thought he had hit his head or something and was having memory issues, like not remembering working on the Malcolm in the Middle show at all.

Maybe I dreamed this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (4NO2D)

155 have always found Anne Hathaway to be incredibly sexy. She is not a classic beauty, but there's something about her. Maybe it's that schnozz.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (QaH5

I also think she's very hot.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (V4IXI)

156 >>>. She is not a classic beauty, but there's something about her. Maybe it's that schnozz.

she's not? I don't love her but she is definitely a classic beauty in my book.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (1wjle)

157 149 I thought that Frankie Muniz had gotten some kind of brain damage but I guess not. He's still working says IMDB.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026

***
He was racing cars recently, I thought.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (wzUl9

===

Apparently his love of racing started with the first season episode where they go see a NASCAR race.

Posted by: TJM's phone at April 03, 2026 05:41 PM (hAotW)

158 Can’t really do much with Scotch other than control you intake.

There are some whiskeys which can take a surprising amount of water before the flavor is significantly affected. I don't know of any scotchs off the top of my head which fall into that category but I assume they exist.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:42 PM (ExV1e)

159 >>>The thing about a large mouth on a woman is that one part of my brain understands it may look freakishly monstrous but another part finds it very attractive.

a woman once told me she gets hot when men look at her mouth when talking to her. So there's a little tip.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

160 151 Frankie Muniz can suck my chorizo.
Posted by: Fred Savage at April 03, 2026 05:40 PM (1wjle)


Boys, boys....

Posted by: Anthony Michael Hall at April 03, 2026 05:42 PM (skR0U)

161 Since I'm watching Burn Notice ( great by the way) , the character Fiona is very hot. I don't think I've seen her since or haven't recognized her if I have.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 03, 2026 05:43 PM (V4IXI)

162 @150

>> I have always found Anne Hathaway to be incredibly sexy. She is not a classic beauty, but there's something about her. Maybe it's that schnozz.

She has all of the components to be overtly sexy, but she doesn’t try to be sexy, and that’s what makes her sexy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:43 PM (XV/Pl)

163 a woman once told me she gets hot when men look at her mouth when talking to her. So there's a little tip.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:42 PM


Hey! My tits are down here!

Posted by: Woman with large mouth at April 03, 2026 05:43 PM (QH3bc)

164 >>> the character Fiona is very hot. I don't think I've seen her since or haven't recognized her if I have.

is that emmanuel beart from Mission: Impossible (the first one)?

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:43 PM (1wjle)

165 She herself, she mentioned, was a Korean adoptee. Instead of being grateful to her adopted country for all the advantages she's had, she complains about American soldiers creating a Korean adoption "industry." Oh, well, the drive there and back was pleasant and the food was, did I mention it was free?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (wzUl9)

Sheesh, did you tell her she's not chained here and she can return to Korea anytime she wants?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2026 05:44 PM (1Ff7Z)

166 >>> Amanda Peet has a purty mouth.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 05:37 PM (0aYVJ)


I like her coffee. Oh! Maybe it's like kopi luwak but just with Amanda instead of a civet. That would take a lot of her time. I'm surprised the coffee is so affordable.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 05:44 PM (3uBP9)

167 a woman once told me she gets hot when men look at her mouth when talking to her. So there's a little tip.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:42 PM (1wjle)

"Mmmmm, this guy is sooooo hard of hearing...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:44 PM (VR4+k)

168 Wolfus Aurelius, nuance is alien to these idiots. Even when it might buttress their overall point.
At least you got food. And it was Lent-compliant food!
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026


***
On top of that, I was extremely surprised at the drive over and back. This is a commute I took for years and years, trying to find a series of roads that were smooth and pleasant to drive on. The city -- who recently repaired a major water line break on the main avenue in that area -- has not only repaired it so you'd never know, they've actually paved it properly. The car was looking over its shoulder at me, saying, "Boss, this is how roads are supposed to be!"

Plus we timed it just right to use the HOV lanes in each direction. Winning!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

169 oh no it's gabrial anwar -- she was in a bunch of genre movies in the late eighties and 90s. She was in that bad movie with Donald Sutherland, the Puppet Masters I think? It was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but made from Heinlein's take on the alien invasion trope.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)

170 No-one knows what makes a woman hot.
I dated one who liked watching me brush my teeth. Not because my breath was otherwise bad (I did have that problem some years before, but then I quit drinking Mountain Dew). She just got hot with the tooth brushing. Why? Ask her not me

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (gKWVE)

171 I'm hard of smelling.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (aTgV0)

172 The other ana de armas is hawt but shes also a crazy commie who was hanging with the son of the cuban regime figurehead

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (bXbFr)

173 I was extremely surprised to hear Anne Hathaway sing. She has a great voice.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)

174 She herself, she mentioned, was a Korean adoptee. Instead of being grateful to her adopted country for all the advantages she's had, she complains about American soldiers creating a Korean adoption "industry." Oh, well, the drive there and back was pleasant and the food was, did I mention it was free?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026
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Sheesh, did you tell her she's not chained here and she can return to Korea anytime she wants?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2026


***
Oh, I wanted to. I really did. But I'd promised to behave in a socially acceptable manner.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (wzUl9)

175 his parent did him right with his money

Wow. You could do a movie on that but the audience wouldn't believe it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (ExV1e)

176 audition for Coyote Ugly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvWX2199ob8

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (1wjle)

177 Good for Frankie Muniz!
Always happy to see a child star not go crazy.
There is no way that a lot of these kids are not abused in some form or fashion.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (4KUe5)

178 No-one knows what makes a woman hot.
I dated one who liked watching me brush my teeth. Not because my breath was otherwise bad (I did have that problem some years before, but then I quit drinking Mountain Dew). She just got hot with the tooth brushing. Why? Ask her not me
Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026


***
Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 liked watching me shave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

179 Here in Iceland they had a pro USA and Shah rally at the capital, thought it was a anti American protest until we walked past, I can post pictures on my x account if interested Ace

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (KhAxi)

180 You know we "joke" about the GOPe just "conserving" leftist things?

David French just posted:

Populists ask what conservativism has ever conserved?

Well its about to conserve birthright citizenship!

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (sKqQm)

181 142 Amanda Peet has a purty mouth.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 05:37 PM (0aYVJ)

Amanda Peet has purty feet!

Posted by: Chicken-Chokin' Pete at April 03, 2026 05:46 PM (dmDsy)

182 And by hanging...

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 05:47 PM (bXbFr)

183 Anne Hathaway can also do comedy. Which is more difficult that tragedy.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 05:47 PM (GD0B3)

184 Anne Hathaway can also do comedy. Which is more difficult that tragedy.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 05:47 PM (GD0B3)

"Dying is easy..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:47 PM (VR4+k)

185 Oh, please, 'rons.

She's attractive, seems intelligent & pleasant, often wears red lipstick, has the good boobs.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (NFX2v)

186 >successfully located and rescued the second crew member.
----

this is awesome
our people are supermen

CNN hardest hit

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (ZxPkt)

187 Jane Hathaway >>>>> Anne Hathaway

Posted by: Jethro Bodine at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (skR0U)

188 Iceland is a weird little place, man

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (VR4+k)

189 Other American actresses commonly mentioned in "large mouths" or "broad smiles" contexts include:

Cameron Diaz (wide, bright smile)
Anne Hathaway (broad, full-lipped smile)
Eva Mendes (frequently listed for large mouth features)
Scarlett Johansson (voluptuous lips contributing to a prominent mouth)

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:26 PM (Sco7b)

What? No Martha Raye?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (1Ff7Z)

190 >It's made by the guy who made It Follows. I'm looking forward to it.

I kinda liked Under the Silver Lake. Have other readers seen it? I can't completely recommend it because it is too indulgent. But if you like offbeat noirs, like Pychon's Crying of Lot 49 or the one with Joachim Phoenix about the pothead detective in California, you may like it. It's basically just a pastiche of Pynchon. But... good? Kinda?
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 05:29 PM (1wjle)


I'm a fan of "Under the Silver Lake", but yeah it's tough to recommend because the viewer just has to go along with it or bail.

So yeah, very Pynchonesque.

The ending is what really makes it work. Brilliant writing. Most writers couldn't do that. It also gives the story weight that you wouldn't expect.

The surprising thing was that the lovely and circumspect Mrs naturalfake liked it as well. Didn't love it, but liked it.

The same writer director of "It Follows" wrote and directed "Under the Silver Lake" also is doing the End of Oak Street, so I have high hopes.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (iJfKG)

191 Amanda Peet has purty feet!
Posted by: Chicken-Chokin' Pete at April 03, 2026


***
Kinda flat. But I've seen worse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (wzUl9)

192
Artemis TLI burn was so on the bullseye, the first planned course correction burn will not be needed. So NASA can still aim and hit the x-ring at lunar distance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (w6EFb)

193 Mary Tyler Moore had a large mouth, but was quite yummy.

Posted by: Luray Caverns at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (oftw2)

194 187 Jane Hathaway >>>>> Anne Hathaway
Posted by: Jethro Bodine at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (skR0U)


Miss Hathaway>>> Jane Hathaway >>>>> Anne Hathaway

Posted by: Jed Clampett at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (dmDsy)

195 Whatever happened to amanda peet

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (bXbFr)

196 oh no it's gabrial anwar -- she was in a bunch of genre movies in the late eighties and 90s. She was in that bad movie with Donald Sutherland, the Puppet Masters I think? It was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers but made from Heinlein's take on the alien invasion trope.
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:45 PM (1wjle)

She peaked in Scent of a Woman. I was thinking, WHO is that when I saw her

Posted by: Carly Simon at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (NtVYv)

197 Amanda Peet has a nice looking seat

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)

198 OT: these deviled eggs

So, the best part of deviled eggs is cleaning the yoke mixture bowl.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (bss/y)

199 Mary Tyler Moore had a large mouth, but was quite yummy.
Posted by: Luray Caverns at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (oftw2)

I was in love with her as a small boy

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (NtVYv)

200 197 Amanda Peet has a nice looking seat
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (Ia/+0)

And an awesome rack.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (bss/y)

201 Whatever happened to amanda peet
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 03, 2026 05:50 PM (bXbFr)

Fighting breast cancer, currently.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (0aYVJ)

202 Amanda Peet is married to one of the guys who prosthetic Game of Thrones show. She settled down and had kids. She has been in something recently, iirc. Life happens and seems happy.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 05:52 PM (4KUe5)

203 willowed from the Religious Revival thread:
Except US is probably going to start putting serious security blocks on a lot of those furriners after the fiasco with Microsoft Azure cloud services where ChiComs in China were directly accessing secure US government files. Pixy has a thread earlier from a Microsoft insider about how it happened.

Note the recent FTC ban on Chicom or even foreign made home routers (a possible route for another Salt Typhoon penetration of US telecoms)
...
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (E4rtv)


I work for a big multi-national that supports the Federal government. I remember getting a briefing about the Azure cloud-based depository for government work-product. Even though there was the assurances that "it's gonna be totes secure ... pinky-swear" I remember thinking that it was going to be a data-breach waiting to happen.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 03, 2026 05:52 PM (ksbjf)

204 So, the best part of deviled eggs is cleaning the yoke mixture bowl.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (bss/y)


I put the yolks into a gallon ziplock bag to put into the whites. There's always a bit left over and I greatly enjoy eating that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 05:52 PM (ExV1e)

205 That’s “produced”

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 05:53 PM (4KUe5)

206 >> Mary Tyler Moore had a large mouth, but was quite yummy.

Read the story of a teenaged Meathead, whom Carl Reiner let run around on the set of the Dick Van Dyke show sometimes, grabbing MTM's ass one time. He loved those Capri pants and how they framed that bee-hind.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 05:53 PM (w6EFb)

207 Amanda Peete is 54, actresses typically age out in their late 30’s, early 40s.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:53 PM (XV/Pl)

208 Artemis TLI burn was so on the bullseye, the first planned course correction burn will not be needed. So NASA can still aim and hit the x-ring at lunar distance.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 05:48 PM (w6EFb)
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Yeah, I saw that earlier today. Pretty darned impressive.

Now they are in the arms of Newtonian mechanics....Though they may do an OTC burn down the line and they also have an RTC burn planned on the return trip.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:53 PM (ESVrU)

209 >Other American actresses commonly mentioned in "large mouths" or "broad smiles" contexts include:
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hello
Julia Roberts
must sleep with a coathanger in her mouth

also Carly Simon
Loretta Swit

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 05:53 PM (ZxPkt)

210 ugh, well I don't wish cancer on Amanda Peet

Posted by: only exception was johnny cochran at April 03, 2026 05:54 PM (gKWVE)

211 I was in love with her as a small boy
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (NtVYv)
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And then Ordinary People where you found out she secretly hated you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 05:54 PM (RIvkX)

212 >I was in love with her as a small boy

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway
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when was she a small boy

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

213 87 Chicken Chokin' Pete was a fucking retard and he rubbed Ace the wrong way on the wrong day lol.

I thought his shtick was mostly harmless but also he clearly ate crayons for the taste.
Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 05:25 PM (oqH4h)

I thought the expression was 'he ate bananas for the shape.'

Posted by: Nelly at April 03, 2026 05:55 PM (7gpcF)

214 ScarJo’s pretty much hit the wall.

Ghost World was a long time ago.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 05:55 PM (XV/Pl)

215 amanda peet was the girl who dated Seinfeld (to go to the Oscars or Emmys or something) but had "the dude" living with her who greeted Jerry at the door wearing a towel.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:56 PM (1wjle)

216 ... healing power of "and"

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 05:56 PM (MIIRH)

217 I was in love with her as a small boy
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 05:51 PM (NtVYv)
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And then Ordinary People where you found out she secretly hated you.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 05:54 PM (RIvkX)


"Nope. I'm a totally cold-hearted bitch." is always a weird career move for an entertainer known for being lovable and funny.

Did she ever make another movie after that or was it straight back to TV?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (iJfKG)

218 No dude?

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (1wjle)

219 I think it's safe to say that Iran does NOT have either of them, because if they did they would be broadcasting it across the world right now. Even if it was just their bodies.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (/QdgR)

220 MTM was a delight.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (aTgV0)

221 amanda peet in seinfeld

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5CPoGvsqqo

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (1wjle)

222 "I hate spunk!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 05:58 PM (RIvkX)

223 Ghost World was one of those movies superior to the source material. The comic was wholly forgettable. The movie was good.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 05:58 PM (gKWVE)

224 Think I got the ranch to mustard to yolk ratio right.

Too bad I eyeballed it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 05:59 PM (bss/y)

225 222 "I hate spunk!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 05:58 PM (RIvkX)

Lou Grant.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:00 PM (bss/y)

226 Think I got the ranch to mustard to yolk ratio right.

Ranch? /makes gagging noises

The key is having the correct amount of cayenne. The answer is... a lot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

227 CNN is offering a $50K bounty to anyone in Iran who has footage of captured US Airman to be put on CNN News to make Trump look bad............

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (5dWeS)

228 >> Yeah, I saw that earlier today. Pretty darned impressive.

At a press conference they got to going on about "non propulsive venting". When they dump stuff (water, pee, CO2) they try to do it in a balanced way so as not to give the spacecraft any kicks. They can't get it exact, but they're impressed with just how non-propulsive they're doing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)

229 Damn. What the hell do they have left in Iran to shoot down our planes?

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (vFG9F)

230 Ranch? /makes gagging noises

The key is having the correct amount of cayenne. The answer is... a lot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:00 PM (ExV1e)

It worked pretty damn well. Made 8. Down to three.

Using a smoked Paprika I picked up. Pretty tasty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (bss/y)

231 She herself, she mentioned, was a Korean adoptee. Instead of being grateful to her adopted country for all the advantages she's had, she complains about American soldiers creating a Korean adoption "industry." Oh, well, the drive there and back was pleasant and the food was, did I mention it was free?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:17 PM (wzUl9)


My wife was a Korean orphanage adoptee. She is very happy to have come to the US even with the problems she had, both there and here. I know a number of her "sisters" as well, and some are delightful and others sort of OK, but they all know what they have here as opposed to what they had there. She goes and visits one of the orphanages in S Korea still.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (rbvCR)

232 That the same "backrooms" from the short horror film a teen made himself years ago? Good for him if so...

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 06:02 PM (OPK28)

233 >>>232 That the same "backrooms" from the short horror film a teen made himself years ago? Good for him if so...

yes.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 06:02 PM (1wjle)

234 229 Damn. What the hell do they have left in Iran to shoot down our planes?
Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (vFG9F)

I saw something that said russia and china were funneling weapons into Iran.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:02 PM (bss/y)

235 WTF happened to Masturbatin' Pete?
Posted by: a.moron at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (X5Jzz)

He went full LGF. Never go full LGF.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 03, 2026 06:02 PM (25QY+)

236 I love deviled eggs. Especially when I do not have to make them.

Akin to being friends with a guy who owns a boat.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 06:03 PM (0aYVJ)

237 At a press conference they got to going on about "non propulsive venting". When they dump stuff (water, pee, CO2) they try to do it in a balanced way so as not to give the spacecraft any kicks. They can't get it exact, but they're impressed with just how non-propulsive they're doing.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 06:01 PM (w6EFb)
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Yep. Watched that earlier today. I didn't know they vented CO2.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 06:03 PM (ESVrU)

238 The End of Oak St looks like The Dome with dinosaurs. Yeah, no.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2026 06:03 PM (diia5)

239 Newsmax saying only 1 vrew member picked up

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:03 PM (Ia/+0)

240 >>Since I'm watching Burn Notice ( great by the way) , the character Fiona is very hot.

She is. And always wants to blow shit up. Hilarious character.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 06:04 PM (Y1sOo)

241 236 I love deviled eggs. Especially when I do not have to make them.

Akin to being friends with a guy who owns a boat.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 03, 2026 06:03 PM (0aYVJ)

They are good. One left. Hungrier than I thought.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:04 PM (bss/y)

242 Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts are no slouches in the Wide Mouth department, either.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot


When Julia Roberts smiles, you can see her wisdom teeth. That's really not normal.

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2026 06:04 PM (VHUov)

243 @nicksortor
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46m
🚨 BREAKING: The White House has called a LID—meaning NO public appearance is expected Trump tonight—following 47 convening his National Security Council at the White House, per @LibbeyDean_

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 06:04 PM (ZxPkt)

244 we're gonna drop The Big One

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 06:04 PM (ZxPkt)

245 David French just posted:

Populists ask what conservativism has ever conserved?

Well its about to conserve birthright citizenship!
_____

It's conservative to ignore plain meaning of constitution and instead follow a policy that is harmful to US citizens solely because that policy has been in place for a few decades.

Count me out of that brand of conservatism.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 06:05 PM (Dv3i1)

246 I saw something that said russia and china were funneling weapons into Iran.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:02 PM (bss/y)


The hard part would be getting them there. I guess Russia could ship them via the Caspian Sea if Ukraine didn't try to take out their freighters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:05 PM (ExV1e)

247 >> I didn't know they vented CO2.

I got interested in that. Rather than disposable cannisters, Orion has some regenerative system. Online scrubbers absorb, then it when it gets full, they rotate and vent. It surprised me they said this is the biggest source of possible unintentional propulsive venting to worry about, more than the pee dumps and such.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 06:05 PM (w6EFb)

248 My wife was a Korean orphanage adoptee. She is very happy to have come to the US even with the problems she had, both there and here. I know a number of her "sisters" as well, and some are delightful and others sort of OK, but they all know what they have here as opposed to what they had there. She goes and visits one of the orphanages in S Korea still.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026


***
If I'd been adopted by a wealthy family who loved me and gave me all the advantages their own biological children would have had? You would not see me trashing them and running down this society, or yearning to adopt the "culture" of my birth mother. My adopted parents would be "my parents," full stop. Oh, I might be curious and want to find out a few things about the original 'rents, but I wouldn't toss aside the people who raised me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 06:06 PM (wzUl9)

249 Since I'm watching Burn Notice ( great by the way) , the character Fiona is very hot. I don't think I've seen her since or haven't recognized her if I have.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg



Especially since she had six kids prior to doing the show.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 06:06 PM (0U5gm)

250 everybody hits the wall
the wall is undefeated

time is cruel
no one is spared

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (ZxPkt)

251 Gabrielle Anwar?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (bss/y)

252 Nood. Woke.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (ExV1e)

253
Oh, and I looked it up last night. Rusty Schweickart, of Apollo 9, did indeed famously say there was nothing so beautiful as a urine dump at sunset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

254 243 @nicksortor
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46m
🚨 BREAKING: The White House has called a LID—meaning NO public appearance is expected Trump tonight—following 47 convening his National Security Council at the White House, per @LibbeyDean_

Looks Like Trump is getting ready to fully level Iran and just get it over with.

Iran could become the world's largest parking Lot for the First COSTCO in The ME...

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 06:07 PM (JGobS)

255 The Week in Woke

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

256 I think it's safe to say that Iran does NOT have either of them, because if they did they would be broadcasting it across the world right now. Even if it was just their bodies.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2026 05:57 PM (/QdgR)


We will get the information after this punitive expedition is over, but I wonder if the F-15 and A-10 were shot-down in the same general area? Obviously, the Iranians got a pop-up SAM system, or two, operational.

But, after over 10,000 sorties with over-whelming air superiority, I wouldn't doubt that the flight crews began to get complacent. I suspect that we're busy bombing anything that even looks like a SAM system right now.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 03, 2026 06:08 PM (ksbjf)

257 brak, those strange spaces have been a thing since House of Leaves (noted here) and even CS Lewis' Wood Between The Worlds.
There's a name for them: "liminal spaces".

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 06:08 PM (gKWVE)

258 I always liked the lips on Keira Knightley

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 03, 2026 06:08 PM (n5tGW)

259
Also, the Philippine people for the most part are Christian, friendly, and love the USA.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 06:13 PM (Y8DZL)

260 Anne Hathaway is beautiful, I think.
But she carries around a certain graceful elegance and class that certain actresses have.

Like an Audrey Hepburn or Grace Kelly type.

I always liked that about all three of them.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)

261 WTF happened to Masturbatin' Pete?

==

Brain Rot. Next question.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (GD0B3)

262 We do have Neutron Based Weapons that kill all life within a certain proximity and leave the infrastructure intact.........

Just Sayin to President Merkin Muffley and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake.............

A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The neutron release generated by a nuclear fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components. The neutron burst, which is used as the primary destructive action of the warhead, is able to penetrate enemy armor and structures more effectively than a conventional warhead, thus making it more lethal as a tactical weapon.

Posted by: General Jack Ripper at April 03, 2026 06:16 PM (JGobS)

263 w6EFb)

248 My wife was a Korean orphanage adoptee. She is very happy to have come to the US even with the problems she had, both there and here. I know a number of her "sisters" as well, and some are delightful and others sort of OK, but they all know what they have here as opposed to what they had there. She goes and visits one of the orphanages in S Korea still.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026

I remember talking about how bad it was for me taking care of of my Quadriplegic Father until my friend talked about stealing food to feed her brother in a South Korean orphanage, reminding me that things could be worse

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 03, 2026 06:16 PM (KhAxi)

264 What would we do without DEI Media "Elites"?
_______
They're not dumb, like everybody says. They're SMART!

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 06:16 PM (AlhUl)

265

BREAKING: The White House has called a LID—meaning NO public appearance is expected Trump tonight—following 47 convening his National Security Council at the White House, per @LibbeyDean_


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Trump is in town, not going to FL. Uff DA!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 06:17 PM (GD0B3)

266 161 Since I'm watching Burn Notice ( great by the way) , the character Fiona is very hot. I don't think I've seen her since or haven't recognized her if I have.

I loved that show. Fi was not beautiful by conventional standards but she was striking and had a banging body. She frequently did that thing that small busted women often 0do which is wear tight tops with no brassiere. She was also a fun character who liked to shoot people and blow things up; she didn't have Michael's patience to play the long game.

Posted by: Nelly at April 03, 2026 06:19 PM (7gpcF)

Health Hits

From Blue Oyster Cult legend Buck Dharma: Important Yak Content.

Scientists hunting for treatments and cures for multiple sclerosis may have found an unlikely ally -- the yak.

The high-altitude, cold-hardy relative of the cow could be the key to a medical breakthrough, according to a March13 study published in the journal Neuron.

At the center of it all is the myelin sheath -- a fatty, protective coating around nerve fibers that helps signals travel between the brain and body.

In MS, the immune system attacks that coating, disrupting communication and triggering neurological symptoms including problems with balance and coordination.

Previous research found that animals living on Tibet's high plateau -- including yaks and antelopes, which roam at average elevations above 14,800 feet -- carry a special genetic mutation called Restat that protects their brains from low-oxygen conditions. Crucially, it does so without damaging the myelin sheath.

Now scientists believe that same gene could help humans repair damaged nerves by regrowing the protective coating, and potentially opening a new door for MS treatment.

The disease typically strikes adults between the ages of 20 and 40. About 1 million Americans are currently living with it, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

To find out if the genetic mutation Restat could play a role in protecting nerve health in humans, Liang Zhang, a neuroscientist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and his team tested mice engineered with the genetic mutation while living in low-oxygen conditions.

And the results were promising.

The mice engineered to carry the mutant gene not only performed better in memory and behavior tests -- they also had healthier, thicker myelin, according to Zhang's study.

Even better, when their nerves were damaged, these mice repaired their myelin faster and more completely.

The gene works by boosting production of a vitamin A-related molecule called ATDR -- all-trans-13,14-dihydroretinol -- which helps create and mature the cells that make myelin.

I don't know if I want Yak DNA in my body. As a wise man once said, "History shows again and again that nature points up the folly of man."

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A pair of prebiotics, one of which is a non-calorie sweetener, supposedly helps protect against Alzheimer's.

What's good for your aging gut may also be good for your aging brain.

A first-of-its-kind study in twins found that taking daily protein and prebiotic supplements can improve memory test scores in people over age 60.

Published in 2024, the findings are food for thought, especially as the same visual memory and learning test is used to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

The double-blind trial tested two inexpensive plant-fiber prebiotics that are available over the counter in many countries.

Prebiotics are non-digestible consumables that help stimulate our gut microbes.

One of the supplements was inulin, a dietary fiber in the fructan class. The other, fructooligosaccharide (FOS), is a plant carbohydrate often used as a natural low-calorie sweetener.

Now if you want to go the other way and speed up your cognitive decline, you should do what the Young Idiots are doing and use ChatGPT for everything.

AI chatbots can act as a "cognitive crutch" that reduces our ability to retain information, a new study suggests.

The research was conducted by AI expert André Barcaui of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who ran an experiment with 120 university students. Half were allowed to use ChatGPT to help them respond to an assignment on the topic of artificial intelligence, and half weren't.

In a surprise test sprung on the participants 45 days after the assignment was given, the students who used ChatGPT scored an average of 5.75 out of 10. For those who took the traditional study route, the average score was 6.85 out of 10.

That's a notable difference, and while this is a relatively small study in terms of participants and timescale, it chimes with other research showing that using AI to find information means we just don't take as much in.

"This suggests that unrestricted ChatGPT use impaired long-term retention, likely by reducing the cognitive effort that supports durable memory," writes Barcaui in his published paper.

This is one of the least-surprising findings I've ever seen.

Now we see what JackStraw was doing with his NIH grant.

Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once

What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They can all produce psychedelic substances -- and now their powers have been combined in one plant, like a trippier Captain Planet.

In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant (Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously.

As interest grows in psychedelics as potential treatments for illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD, the newly developed system could offer scientists a new way to produce these compounds for research purposes.

"[Our] strategy established a heterologous plant system for the production of five prominent therapeutically valuable compounds, their derivatives, and nonnatural plant analogs, providing a starting point for their production in plants," writes a team led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

"You smoke the LSD tree and listening to the Grateful Dead becomes so immersive you completely forget how much they suck," said self-declared "part time drifter, full time dreamer" JackStraw.

Good news for every male AOS commenter.

Frequent Ejaculations Can Boost Sperm Quality, Study Suggests

Wait, it said "ejaculations" not "masturbation sessions." I guess it says something Sad! about me that I read it as being good news for chronic masturbators.

Slowed speech may indicate cognitive decline, report scientists at Obvious University's Department of No Shit.

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Testosterone is not always linked to male well-being, claims someone posting as "Gonah Joldberg."

The connection between testosterone and well-being is weaker than many people think. Although there are clear health connections, a higher testosterone level is not always the key to well-being, according to a thesis at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Jonah Goldberg's Unfulfilled Wife.

...


The clearest connections are found in sexual problems with sexual desire, erection and sexual performance, as well as in some muscle and joint pain, as well as sitting on Twitter all day long spamming out trash jokes from 1999."


Muscle health and testosterone are also connected. Higher testosterone levels are linked to higher muscle mass and, above all, to less intramuscular fat. This is especially true in muscles with a high percentage of fat: around the stomach, waist, lower back and hips, and in the chest muscles, the so-called JGFDS, or 'Jonah Goldberg Fat Deposition Sites.'"

Want to increase your physical and mental performance? Take a fake pill. Even if you know it's fake it will still work because you're so gullible.

Some test subjects were given placebos claimed to be a multivitamin with pro-mental and muscular properties. Some test subjects were given an "open placebo," a placebo identified to the patient as a placebo with no real benefits, but were also told that sometimes placebos could grant psychological benefits that would result in real benefits.

Both groups saw benefits from the fake medicine.

A placebo is "an inert treatment presented as active", according to the definition used by these authors. In medical history, placebo effects have been researched by offering an inert treatment as if it were an active intervention. This presumes that the patient's belief is necessary for the effect to occur. However, more recent literature suggests the contrary.

That is, if the placebo effect is satisfactorily explained as involving mind-body interactions, open-label placebos exert effects on patients as strong as deceptive placebos across multiple clinical and experimental parameters. Psychologists attribute this to patients' expectations, which operate through psychological, contextual, and expectancy-driven processes to fulfil them.

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Within each group, self-reported parameters remained unchanged. Cognitive performance increased from before to after the intervention in both placebo groups. A cognitive inhibition task showed improvement in all groups, including controls, suggesting a likely practice or habituation effect rather than a placebo-specific effect.

Physical functioning improved in both placebo groups, but more significantly in the open-label group, in within-group analyses, although no significant between-group differences were observed at post-intervention.

People actually saw greater benefits when they knew they were taking a placebo. (Albeit with the information that a placebo can still produce a real world effect.)

Specifically, researchers found that the placebo improved physical performance by 7% when taken under deception, and by 9.2% when taken knowingly. Cognitive performance improved, depending on the assessment test used by the psychologists, by between 12.6% and 14.6% in the case of the sham supplement (deceptive placebo), and by between 6.9% and 21.5% in the case of the placebo taken knowingly.

"These are significant effects," the psychologist emphasizes, "comparable to those seen in some experimental studies on physical activity regarding physical performance and cognitive training, especially with regard to memory." Among the various effects observed, there was an improvement in drowsiness and, particularly for the group aware they are taking the placebo, in stress levels.


A placebo effect is still an effect.

DNA shows that dog became man's best friend even earlier than previously thought.

The discovery of the oldest ever dog DNA suggests they have been our best friends for nearly 16,000 years -- 5,000 years earlier than had previously been thought, new research said Wednesday.

Despite being ubiquitous in the homes, backyards and hearts of people across the world, surprisingly little is known about where dogs come from.

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Dogs are most likely a mix of two types of grey wolves, he said. However exactly when dogs diverged from wolves has been difficult to trace, partly because their ancient bones are tricky to tell apart.

That is why scientists behind two new studies published in the journal Nature sequenced the genomes from archaeological remains, shedding light on the elusive origins of our furry friends.

The first study revealed that the world's oldest canine DNA was discovered in a piece of a skull in Pinarbasi in what is now Turkey.

The female puppy, which was perhaps "a few months old", probably looked like a small wolf when it lived roughly 15,800 years ago, according to study co-author Laurent Frantz of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Before Wednesday, the oldest-known dog DNA was from 10,900 years ago.

Also breaking that record was genetic evidence the team found in southwest England dating back 14,300 years, which illustrated how early dogs had spread across Europe.

Frantz said scientists could not prove exactly what role these dogs had among humans living during the last Ice Age.

"But I think we can assume that they must have played a role because they would have been expensive to feed," he said.

Perhaps the dogs were used for hunting or protection, he speculated.

Even if these dogs were not treated the same as pets are today, there was likely still a strong bond, he said, adding that "kids will still have played with puppies".

And now for the big question: Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

I don't have any. I've been low-carb pretty consistently, but the only result is that I'm not gaining weight. I'm losing none. I really do have to start exercising again.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:40 PM




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1 I come to conquer.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:41 PM (aTgV0)

2 Secmonds.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (aTgV0)

3 I saw Island of Dr. Moreau. No thanks!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (8Ppug)

4 Yaks have 'ere been our allies.

We were just loathe to see it.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (aTgV0)

5 Dang, that's a heck of a post for someonetaking it easy today.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (Sco7b)

6 >>>5 Dang, that's a heck of a post for someonetaking it easy today.

nah it was a quick search. I wrote it last night. I don't mind doing the work, I just don't want to do it on Friday.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (1wjle)

7 GODZILLA!!!!!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (aTgV0)

8 when I get work done on weds and thurs and take off half of friday, I feel like I just committed a great heist.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (1wjle)

9 Chronic masturbatouers make the world work.


Masturbatouers is the fancy way of saying it.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (aTgV0)

10 And now for the big question: Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

======

Barely did any workouts this week.

Just wasn't in the mood.

Ate the rest of my cheddar and jalapeno sourdough loaf, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:47 PM (hAotW)

11
And now for the big question: Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

I'm down 20 pounds from January. 10 more to go and I reach my goal of being back under 200.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (UWQC6)

12 "not always"
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Now there's a good phrase you always want on the masthead of a high quality scientific inquiry. My Lord.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (mWRBW)

13 By the way, I just watched "Hobo With A Shotgun."

It started off showing that it was filmed in Canada. And Nova Scotia. My heart sank.

But then I watched an incredibly bloody, twisted messed up movie. It was truly one of the most heart-warming, hobo vigilante with a shotgun movies ever. Not for the squeamish. 10 out of 10.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:49 PM (Sco7b)

14 There's a warm, runny placebo in my pants!

Posted by: President Emeritus at April 03, 2026 03:49 PM (oftw2)

15 Just peak cruelty to do a masturbation thread *now*.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:49 PM (mWRBW)

16 lol, dogs on a treadmill.
There’s any video where several dogs are jogging, but the lil’ corgi is on the side of his, using one paw to pretend jog.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (4KUe5)

17 In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant (Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously.

And, apparently, in a smokable form...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

18
when I get work done on weds and thurs and take off half of friday, I feel like I just committed a great heist.
Posted by: ace

this is the way it's done. work it off early when you feel like it, then go into fook off mode early.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (UWQC6)

19 Ate the rest of my cheddar and jalapeno sourdough loaf, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 20

Did it work and more importantly did my tips help, because again, I am the only thing that matters to me.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (mWRBW)

20 What's good for your aging gut may also be good for your aging brain.
......

bEER?

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (UjdFS)

21 My health gains are the dog's gains. He's alive and well.

I'm lifting him a lot. So that's exercise.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (Sco7b)

22 lol, sounds like the MAHA Hospital on SNL!

Posted by: Sid at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (Rgcbc)

23 Between flouncing, TDS, and the usual hand jive, Masturbatin' Pete is fully booked.

Posted by: Only So Many Hours In The Day at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (oftw2)

24 A placebo effect is still an effect.

This is one of the things Andrew Weil used to go on about before he became a diet guru and was still hanging out with JackStraw.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (34an+)

25 8 when I get work done on weds and thurs and take off half of friday, I feel like I just committed a great heist.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (1wjle)

Good for you and thank you.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

26 I could use a glass of placebo

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (Ia/+0)

27 I note sexist ace never does any threads about female masturbation. We need to gear this place more toward *modern audiences*.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (mWRBW)

28 19
Did it work and more importantly did my tips help, because again, I am the only thing that matters to me.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (mWRBW)

======

It did!

Blocks of cheddar work well.

Next loaf will probably be roasted garlic and rosemary. I brought up the idea a couple of weeks ago to Dolley, but we didn't have any garlic at the time. So, I've been delaying, and she's been frustrated by that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:52 PM (hAotW)

29 I don't know if I want Yak DNA in my body.


That depends on how it is injected, right? IYKWIM.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 03:52 PM (4NO2D)

30 Reported that Whoopie Goldberg and the View Voluptuous Creatures with the Beauty of Helen of Troy were rushed to a local facility after overdoses on Jelly Donuts with the news about the rescued US Airman...

More to follow.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 03, 2026 03:52 PM (xvV4K)

31 Frequent Ejaculations Can Boost Sperm Quality, Study Suggests
.......

also: frequent exposure to sperm improves women's complexions

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 03:52 PM (UjdFS)

32 LOL......fitting for MPLS:

RandBall
@RandBall
·
43m
Power out at Target Field, as everyone at the ballpark is reporting. Xcel map shows 1,540 customers lost power in and around Target Field. Estimated time to fix? 5 p.m.! Guess we will find out if an MLB home opener in an hour can expedite things ...

Posted by: beckster at April 03, 2026 03:53 PM (kX27y)

33 > Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once
--------------
Psychedelics you say? 5 of them? At once?

Posted by: Captain Trips at April 03, 2026 03:53 PM (AkEZC)

34 I don't know if I want Yak DNA in my body.

What, you don't trust the Gaystapo to inject your body with all-trans-13,14-dihydroretinol!?!? They're not even hiding it anymore!!!

Posted by: Alex Jones at April 03, 2026 03:53 PM (JCZqz)

35 Obligatory King of the Hill scene:

https://youtu.be/SHILxPVLopY

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (skR0U)

36 Sounds like what I am doing is helping me with Dementia...

I jerk Off every day to a nude picture of Whoopie Goldberg.

Hey Man, Don't tell Jill !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (/Uzmo)

37 Ace works tirelessly for you dweebs.


That man whose boots you are not fit to lick.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (aTgV0)

38 Although there are clear health connections, a higher testosterone level is not always the key to well-being, according to a thesis at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Jonah Goldberg's Unfulfilled Wife.

This is the cruelty I (and VDH) come here for.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

39 Do you think a tennis ball would help Jonah Goldberg?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (AlhUl)

40 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:52 PM (hAotW)
Sounds excellent

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (mWRBW)

41 I skimmed the content. Something about wearing a sheath if you are ejaculating frequently into a yak.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (qgHp7)

42 There was an allergy medicine being tested that I was watching because it was supposed to be very effective for cat allergies. I'm extremely allergic to cats and I thought actually being able to have one would be neat. Anyway it failed in a later stage clinical trial. The first trials went great with 60 - 70 % claiming it helped their allergies. But later trials which included strict double-blind tests found that while the 60 - 70 % success rate held a greater 80 - 90 % of the people on the placebos said those helped. This tells me two things, 1 people are stupid, 2 people say they have allergies and really have never experience real life threatening allergies.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (3uBP9)

43 placebo...
You too can get prescription Obecalp™ ...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

44 Sourdough bread consumed during Passover. Should stone you outside the city.

Posted by: Phineas the Pharisee at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (oftw2)

45 > Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

More of a loss, really, but my tumor is gone for now. The doc is sure he got it all, and the pathology report confirms this (as I understand it, he cut away a margin of healthy tissue around the tumor).

Immunotherapy and watchful waiting come next.

At a minimum, it won't kill me this year, and there's a reasonable chance it's gone for good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (IG3/x)

46 Want to increase your physical and mental performance? Take a fake pill. Even if you know it's fake it will still work because you're so gullible.
___________________

Here's a test. Get very very hung over. I'm talking, reluctant to move because it might start projectile vomiting without warning.

NOW, stand in the middle of a four lane highway as a tractor trailer plows towards you at 80 mph. The hangover and all it's decrepit attributes leave your body in an that instant as you dive for cover on the berm of the highway.

Summary: A lot of this stuff is psychological.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (dIske)

47 Anyone want Tibet that yaks aren't the cure for MS?

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (qgHp7)

48 The Missus and I do an NCAA BB bracket bet every year and this year the winner gets to choose a loaf of bread to be made by the loser. Winner: ME

Cheddar and jalapeno would be awesome for ME, but she won't eat the jalapenos, so I told her I would choose something we would both enjoy.

Suggestions welcome!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 03:56 PM (DgMqy)

49 You mean my diet of Roach Burgers and Crab Grass Roots is not healthly ????

Those SOB's LIED to me !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 03:56 PM (38587)

50 35 Obligatory King of the Hill scene:

https://youtu.be/SHILxPVLopY

He's an ignoranus... LOL. Perfect word for a dumb asshole.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 03:56 PM (ynpvh)

51 48
Cheddar and jalapeno would be awesome for ME, but she won't eat the jalapenos, so I told her I would choose something we would both enjoy.

Suggestions welcome!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 03:56 PM (DgMqy)

======

I've gathered that yak hair is delicious from my skimming of the thread.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (hAotW)

52 I tried using a myelin sheath but I found it tore too easily.
I went back to latex condoms, Kimono specifically.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (xcxpd)

53 Love the picture of Joe.
"Where the fuck am I?"

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (UjdFS)

54 >>>In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these organisms use to make five natural psychedelics and introduced them into a tobacco plant (Nicotiana benthamiana), which then produced all five compounds simultaneously.

This is like a plot to a zombie film. Or a super hero origin story: Captain Trips.

Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (q177U)

55 That fat golden retriever video was beautiful. God bless that lady. That's a lot of work.

Thanks ace.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (Sco7b)

56 Just finished rear delts now onto side delts Aggravated my right knee on leg extensions with a little bit too much weight the other day. Need to lose about 10-12 pounds. Too many cinnamon rolls for breakfast (6), too many Oreo Cookie Ice Cream sandwiches (6). I don't know what it is about the number six. It seems to be a magic number especially for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups or any other carb/sugar laced goodies.

Posted by: JROD at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (IlL6s)

57 Inside you are two yaks.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (3uBP9)

58 No puns til 200.

k thnx

Yak outside should have told you.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:58 PM (aTgV0)

59 Yakky Yak , no injecting that crap

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)

60 The Yin Yak and the Yang Yak?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:58 PM (aTgV0)

61 Psychedelic Shack--that's where it's at!

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (Fi81e)

62 A group of conservative stand-up comics are staging a fundraiser for Tibetan MS research and calling it:

Yuks For Yaks

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (qgHp7)

63 Wait, it said "ejaculations" not "masturbation sessions." I guess it says something Sad! about me that I read it as being good news for chronic masturbators.
__________

"Fuck!"

-- Masterbatin' Pete

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

64 48 The Missus and I do an NCAA BB bracket bet every year and this year the winner gets to choose a loaf of bread to be made by the loser. Winner: ME

Cheddar and jalapeno would be awesome for ME, but she won't eat the jalapenos, so I told her I would choose something we would both enjoy.

Suggestions welcome!
Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 03:56 PM (DgMqy)

Cashews and bread with a high butter content can be very tasty. You also might try sunflower seeds as well.

Finally, I would do it in the butt.

Next caller.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (xcxpd)

65 Using a virus to inject Yak DNA into your body is the perfect way to become a real trans-human, not those fake so-called transwomen and transmen...those are just mentally ill looking for attention.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (ynpvh)

66 Legalinsurrection.com
France is joing China and Russia and Iran with not freeing up the Straight

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

67 Wait, it said "ejaculations" not "masturbation sessions." I guess it says something Sad! about me that I read it as being good news for chronic masturbators.
---
Masturbatin' Pete, hardest whacked.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Fi81e)

68 Continued -

My company went on a hiring spree of foreign turdbags by offshoring the jobs to bypass H1B restrictions, would explain why domestic jobs while foreign jobs continue to rise, theyre just finding new ways to game the system
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger

=======
Except US is probably going to start putting serious security blocks on a lot of those furriners after the fiasco with Microsoft Azure cloud services where ChiComs in China were directly accessing secure US government files. Pixy has a thread earlier from a Microsoft insider about how it happened.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (E4rtv)

ICYMI from tech thread. Worth a read.

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

>>>If you’re running production workloads on Azure or relying on it for mission-critical systems, this story matters more than you think.

Pt. 1 of 6

https://tinyurl.com/hkzczzh6

Really read it. It reads like the background facts of a shareholder lawsuit filing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (dK+Kv)

69 Interesting,

"JUST IN: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says he's 100% behind PRESIDENT TRUMP on Iran

"I support what the president is doing. They've been at war with us for 47 years."

"They've killed our people and maimed our people, attacked our allies."

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (E4rtv)

70 66 Legalinsurrection.com
France is joing China and Russia and Iran with not freeing up the Straight

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

That's so gay...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

71 Masturbatin' Pete, hardest whacked.
Posted by: Axeman
======
He is AOS permabanned as of earlier thread today.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv)

72 I don't know who Aldus H Chapin II is but he must've been one hell of a narrator!

Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862
By: Hank H. Cox
Narrated by: Aldus H Chapin II's voice replica

https://is.gd/QQQSTz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (ndZc7)

73 I can think of worse things to put inside your body other than Yak DNA.

A Yak's dick would be one. Not the only one. Just one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (AkEZC)

74 I don't care, I'm not taking any damn yak DNA. We've been warned.

https://youtu.be/SqGehlUI2Ck

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (Riz8t)

75 Masturbatin' Pete, hardest whacked.
Posted by: Axeman
======
He is AOS permabanned as of earlier thread today.
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv)
---
So he got whacked off ... the board?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e)

76 Mitch's animatronic corpse just said something helpful?

Not buying it.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (aTgV0)

77 70 66 Legalinsurrection.com
France is joing China and Russia and Iran with not freeing up the Straight

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

That's so gay...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (ynpvh)

=======

About 9 million barrels a day are being rerouted through two major pipelines. 4 million got through the strait a couple of days ago.

20 million get through on a normal day.

Really, in a few months, the only people who are going to remember this are the shale oil producers in America when they look at their fleet of new Bugattis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (hAotW)

78 MS is a nasty way to go. I saw a friend's decline with that shit.

If it were me, I'd try just about anything that might help.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

79 And a reminder to keep one's exercise activities in check.

From Post Millennial.
"A Washington state children's book author and co-founder of the Bellingham Naked Bike Ride has been arrested on child sex crime charges.

Zachary Elisha Robertson, 42, of Bellingham, was taken into custody on March 10 on two felony counts of possession of child pornography. Investigators located approximately 25 nude images of prepubescent and pubescent girls on his laptop upon the execution of a search warrant. He later allegedly confessed to downloading nude images of girls between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, according to court documents."

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (E4rtv)

80 Really cool curved horns and thick mats of body fur are side effects of the Yak-DNA Therapy.

Posted by: The Trade-Off at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (oftw2)

81 I can think of worse things to put inside your body other than Yak DNA.

A Yak's dick would be one. Not the only one. Just one.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (AkEZC)
---
I can't imagine why?!

Posted by: Don LeMon at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (Fi81e)

82 *watches last video*

Why'd it get so dusty in here all of a sudden??

Posted by: pookysgirl tries to keep Jt The Wonder Dog healthy at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (Wt5PA)

83 GatewayPundit....what the heck

Two more US military aircraft were downed in the Middle East on Friday, in addition to an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed earlier.

An A-10 Warthog reportedly went down contemporaneously with the crash of the F-15, according to the New York Times.

Officials have not stated the cause of the crash or the country where it occurred, but it reportedly occurred near the Strait of Hormuz.

The pilot was safely rescued.

Additionally, Black Hawk helicopter was hit by Iran. Preliminary reports suggest that the Blackhawk was hit during search and rescue operations but landed safely. It was later reported that two helicopters were struck by Iranian fire during the search and rescue, but all crew members are safe

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (Sco7b)

84 78 MS is a nasty way to go. I saw a friend's decline with that shit.

If it were me, I'd try just about anything that might help.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

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MS...or like Aunt Gladys at the end of Weapons?

Well, Aunt Gladys went quick, at least...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (hAotW)

85 So he got whacked off ... the board?
Posted by: Axeman

Umm, phrasing?

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (E4rtv)

86 Calories in, calories out. There is no other secret.

Well, except if you get your calories from solid food sources that supply the right nutrients, you feel better and your ability to grow or maintain muscle mass improves and you protect bone density.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (Q9G/L)

87 MS-Now - Big Propaganda success for Iran , US fighter shot down

You can hear the seals clapping

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (Ia/+0)

88 im so convinced that israel controls the most powerful nation on earth and can kill whomever they want with impunity but won't kill their harshest critics because im super smart

Posted by: UA113 at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (cz34i)

89 Yakety Sax would be the perfect music for this. Imagine ace chasing around a bunch of buxom gals benny hill style.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 04:03 PM (3uBP9)

90 I skimmed the content. Something about wearing a sheath if you are ejaculating frequently into a yak.
Posted by: muldoon


You skipped a section. The sheath actually scores worse than a placebo.

Posted by: a muslim who's tired of goats at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (VHUov)

91 Strong work this week, Ace.

Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (qgHp7)

92 75 Masturbatin' Pete, hardest whacked.
Posted by: Axeman
======
He is AOS permabanned as of earlier thread today.
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (E4rtv)
---
So he got whacked off ... the board?
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:01 PM (Fi81e)

Missed A LOT today. Was he especially obnoxious?

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (pDt9x)

93 62 A group of conservative stand-up comics are staging a fundraiser for Tibetan MS research and calling it:

Yuks For Yaks
Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:59 PM (qgHp7)

_____________________________

They stole that from that group of hookers who wanted to make fax machines relevant again.

(sorry, I know it's Friday, and no one wants to fgure stuff out...but there's a joke in there).

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (dIske)

94 There once was a Moran named Pete

Who's mastubatin was never complete

He said with a grin

While licking his chin

Apparently I am now Delete.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (aTgV0)

95 @83

Another explanation might be that new shipments of Chinese arms have arrived. The PRC wants to know if ANY of their stuff works.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (Riz8t)

96 Did my shopping for Easter - kid asked for ham, asparagus, fruit and tots. Which item would be sold out in all forms? If you guessed the ham, you'd be wrong. Apparently, the area loves them some asparagus b/c even the organic and white versions were gone.

So, I picked up all the sale veg and am gonna ask the sons for round 2 - brussel sprouts (got the last 2 bags of those), warm cabbage apple slaw, or cucumber salad...what they want with ham on Easter (the brussels will be Easter or day after b/c they go with pork fat, so I'm gonna insist on it with a ham dinner).

PS - I originally bought lamb and was gonna make that, but one teen was up in arms...so that's now gonna be a nice Saturday night dinner later in the month when he's with the friends at a community Church event (and thus, won't eat it)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (tOcjL)

97 In MLB news, the Colorado Rockies have been mathematically eliminated from post-season play.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (qgHp7)

98 Really, in a few months, the only people who are going to remember this are the shale oil producers in America when they look at their fleet of new Bugattis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:02 PM (hAotW)

And President Trump as he 'sets things right.'

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (Sco7b)

99 92
Missed A LOT today. Was he especially obnoxious?

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (pDt9x)

=======

Had been for a while.

He just did it in ace's presence this time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (hAotW)

100 The park where Charlie the poodle and I often take our morning constitutional has a feature I like. Near most trees, there is a post identifying the species with a QR link to more info on the species.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (ndZc7)

101 "Despite being ubiquitous in the homes, backyards and hearts of people across the world..."

Don't forget stomachs! Mmm-mmm.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (Bjg/j)

102 ...through the 2028 season.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (qgHp7)

103 In MLB news, the Colorado Rockies have been mathematically eliminated from post-season play.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (qgHp7)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (dK+Kv)

104 Who knows what's really happening:



Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
37m
🚨 WOW! The second downed US fighter crew member has reportedly MADE CONTACT with the US military after he went down through encrypted radio

US forces now have the ENTIRE night in Iran to find him, nearly 7 hours of pure darkness

Pray he's found 🇺🇸

Posted by: beckster at April 03, 2026 04:06 PM (kX27y)

105 Wait a minute you guys.

I got it.

YakMan.

amirite?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:06 PM (aTgV0)

106 He is AOS permabanned as of earlier thread today.

Permabanned is so lame. I think we should use Permafrosted.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

107 egalinsurrection.com
France is joing China and Russia and Iran with not freeing up the Straight

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

US should just take the straits - then close them just for Russia, China and France.

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (j10i6)

108 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 03:55 PM (IG3/x)

Rodrigo, blessings, I had no idea you had been through that. Excellent news! FWIW you are one of my Official Morons in Good Standing. An exclusive list.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (mWRBW)

109 98 And President Trump as he 'sets things right.'

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (Sco7b)

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"But no, Trump shouldn't have tried to fix a generations' long regional and worldwide threat because it made winning the midterms harder. He should have been like Democrats who refused to open the borders under Biden because it was so unpopular that it threatened their midterm prospects and just did border security instead to try and keep the Senate and maybe push through another bill."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (hAotW)

110 >>>Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

lol

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)

111 83 GatewayPundit....what the heck

Two more US military aircraft were downed in the Middle East on Friday, in addition to an F-15E Strike Eagle that crashed earlier.

An A-10 Warthog reportedly went down contemporaneously with the crash of the F-15, according to the New York Times.

Officials have not stated the cause of the crash or the country where it occurred, but it reportedly occurred near the Strait of Hormuz.

The pilot was safely rescued.

Additionally, Black Hawk helicopter was hit by Iran. Preliminary reports suggest that the Blackhawk was hit during search and rescue operations but landed safely. It was later reported that two helicopters were struck by Iranian fire during the search and rescue, but all crew members are safe
Posted by: Stateless
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Operation Tempo is pretty high right now and US pilots are probably targeting areas with a lot of man launched missiles. Around the SW coastline of Iran-Straits of Hormuz.

Centcom is playing it close to the chest as to what brought the aircraft down except for the two rescue helicopters that were fired upon but got home safely.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

112 I've got a pretty big health update.

About 8-10 years ago I finally quit smoking for good after reading Alan Carr's "Easy Way to Quit Smoking" which was recommended by our own Ace. (Many, many thanks to you, Ace.) Since that time, I have gone religiously for the once yearly low-dose CT scan of lungs that is offered to smokers/former smokers.

Every one was negative. My doctor suggested that since I had been doing it for at least 8 years, I could probably stop. I asked for just one more, and he said okay. Well, it showed a very small spot on the right lower lobe. After much testing it was confirmed as Stage I CA. Please note that I had no symptoms whatsoever that anything was wrong.

I had the CA removed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NYC about two weeks ago. Doc got it all. No chemo, no radiation required. There were a few glitches, but I've been home for more than a week and feeling better and stronger every day. Thank you to all of you for your prayers!

My only wish is for all of you to take advantage of any and all screenings that are offered--mammograms, CTs, colonoscopies, etc. Catch the beast early and you can beat it.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (3ImbR)

113 Partially related to the content, but I am warning everyone I can about stuff that they know, but think they can take care of "later" -

My father passed away and left me as the executor of his estate. It's modest, but needs to be done. He left a will, but not much other documentation on house title, car(s) title, insurance policies, etc. Coupled with greedy conniving family members that are willing to burn down a lifetime of relationships for money that amounts to about enough that would allow them to buy a nice SUV, it's stressful.

Get your (and your parents) beneficiaries, accounts, passwords, will, and trust in order while you have time. Make a living trust and keep it updated. Your survivors and executors will thannk you.

Posted by: Croaker at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (+BcZI)

114 Well, the health gain is that this chemo seems to be holding things steady for now.

Unfortunately, the other "gain" is that a steroid has to be given without it so that my liver doesn't develop scarring, so I have put back on about 25 pounds since January.

The surgeon says that the steroids aren't crossing into my system (the chemo is delivered directly into my hepatic artery and quickly metabolized), but I think that Prednisone is a sneaky little bastard, and doctors can't really be sure about that.

The indication has more to do with just weight gain, but also the fact that my blood sugar numbers jumped up 40 points in the same time period - which only ever happens when I am on steroids (no history of diabetes on either side of my direct family).

Another lovely side effect has been urinary issues - TMI for polite company; suffice it to say I am quite miserable and stuck near a bathroom at all times. Thankfully, I saw my urologist this week and she has me on some samples of a medication which has helped immensely.

She didn't pooh-pooh my claims of steroid exposure - said this was not uncommon at all.

It's been an interesting few months.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (SRRAx)

115 MS-Now - Big Propaganda success for Iran , US fighter shot down

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Some smart ass on YT calls them BS-NOW.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (ndZc7)

116 99 92
Missed A LOT today. Was he especially obnoxious?

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:04 PM (pDt9x)

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Had been for a while.

He just did it in ace's presence this time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (hAotW)

Have to say good riddance, he won’t be missed. A couple of others getting banned would be okay with me too. But, not my blog. The paid trolls never engage I have observed, just hit and run stuff.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (pDt9x)

117 Now scientists believe that same gene could help humans repair damaged nerves by regrowing the protective coating, and potentially opening a new door for MS treatment.
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So, after yak gene therapy the patient has to live at 14,800 feet altitude for the rest of their life? I don't get it.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (n17eQ)

118 110 >>>Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

lol

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)

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But you'd better be back Monday morning.

early.

More like Sunday night.

Gotta make up for the lost time for going home early.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (hAotW)

119 I actually do have some gains. I'm slowly getting function back in my left arm and feeling back in my hands and feet. Lotta work to do but making progress.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (viF8m)

120 The park where Charlie the poodle and I often take our morning constitutional has a feature I like.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (ndZc7)

Pro-tip: Do not poop in park.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (dK+Kv)

121 Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Riz8t)

My favorite was when he called *you* a Trump bootlicker. LMAO

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (mWRBW)

122 People actually saw greater benefits when they knew they were taking a placebo.

This bodes poorly for my gainzz.

I now know that as long as I know that Twinkies and Ho-Hos have no health benefits, I could get some health benefit from them, so I have less reason to not eat Twinkies and Ho-Hos.

Posted by: mikeski puts his AI in an infinite loop at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (VHUov)

123 116 Have to say good riddance, he won’t be missed. A couple of others getting banned would be okay with me too. But, not my blog. The paid trolls never engage I have observed, just hit and run stuff.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (pDt9x)

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I always knew you hated me!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (hAotW)

124 >>>More of a loss, really, but my tumor is gone for now. The doc is sure he got it all, and the pathology report confirms this (as I understand it, he cut away a margin of healthy tissue around the tumor).
Immunotherapy and watchful waiting come next.
At a minimum, it won't kill me this year, and there's a reasonable chance it's gone for good.

I'm sorry to hear of your travail. It's good to hear they think they got the tumor!

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (1wjle)

125 In MLB news, the Colorado Rockies have been mathematically eliminated from post-season play.
Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 04:05 PM (qgHp7)

So, no reason not to trade all their players to the Mets at the trade deadline then...anything to save the Mets season at this point.

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (j10i6)

126 Pro-tip: Do not poop in park.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at

Beats doing it in reverse.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (mWRBW)

127 Congratulations Irish and welcome back.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 04:10 PM (viF8m)

128 Strong work this week, Ace.

Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.
Posted by: muldoon
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Don't forget to charge your time to PTO.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

129 He is AOS permabanned as of earlier thread today.

Permabanned is so lame. I think we should use Permafrosted.
Posted by: Archimedes

Double secret probation.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:10 PM (ndZc7)

130 Crazy thought.

I would rather have the Israelis running my life than the democrats.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:10 PM (aTgV0)

131 123 116 Have to say good riddance, he won’t be missed. A couple of others getting banned would be okay with me too. But, not my blog. The paid trolls never engage I have observed, just hit and run stuff.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:08 PM (pDt9x)

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I always knew you hated me!

*weeps bitterly but manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (hAotW)

Look, I was trying to be all genteel about the matter!!

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

132 >>>Congratulations Irish and welcome back.
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Thank you, Straw!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (3ImbR)

133 >>> >>>Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.

lol
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (1wjle)




Um, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9:00, that would be great. Mm-Kay?

Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (3uBP9)

134 Missed A LOT today. Was he especially obnoxious?
Posted by: tubal

Eh, given his terminal TDS and proclivity to show up just to provoke fights since Trump, it was a matter of time. Same sperging and spiralling down that another recently banned critter did.

And about as logical on their arguments as a typical leftist.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (E4rtv)

135 Why do we poop on a parkway but shit in a driveway?

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (mWRBW)

136 > Rodrigo, blessings, I had no idea you had been through that. Excellent news! FWIW you are one of my Official Morons in Good Standing. An exclusive list.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:07 PM (mWRBW)

Thanks! I'm still pissing through a tube coming out of my dick, but other than that everything seems to be good. I'm really, really ready for that thing to come out.

I'm sure there are people who are into that sort of thing, but I'm not one of them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3/x)

137 Beats doing it in reverse.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (mWRBW)

Out through the out door only.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (dK+Kv)

138 "I don't know if I want Yak DNA in my body."

Surgical mesh, used to repair hernias and tissue damage, might now be more often made of polypropylene, a non-absorbable plastic polymer. However, other materials include polyester, polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE or Gore-Tex), or biologic tissues derived from porcine (pig) or bovine (cow) collagen are also used, and bacteria can grow and form biofilms on all types of hernia mesh. (Had it happen.)

Gel injections for knee pain were derived from rooster combs (hence the nickname "rooster comb injections"). Now most modern hyaluronic acid is produced in labs through bacterial fermentation, making them safe for people with chicken allergies.

Tat ink can be a horror in the human body.

MS is such a terrible disease. My young niece has been cautious but engaged in some drug trials for relief. She did not regret it and, if that proves a good treatment or cure, she'd likely go for it.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (NFX2v)

139 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Hate to tell you but most people here are not Prometheus fans.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (E4rtv)

140 Irish Ei, so happy for you!! Must have been a Huge weight lifted from you.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (pDt9x)

141 139 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Hate to tell you but most people here are not Prometheus fans.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (E4rtv)

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I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (hAotW)

142 I don't have any. I've been low-carb pretty consistently, but the only result is that I'm not gaining weight. I'm losing none. I really do have to start exercising again.
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I am eating unmodified potato starch as a resistant starch. Supposed to feed your little buddies in your gut biome. 90+% of them. So far just 2 teaspoons a day.

Results aren't in quite yet. But the studies quoted say 2-4 weeks for resistant starch to really make a difference.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)

143 Don't forget to charge your time to PTO.
Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

_______________________

PTO? Patton Tiberius Oswald?

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (dIske)

144 Never ever quit on the Colorado Diamondbacks!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (aTgV0)

145 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (hAotW)

That would be an epic flounce.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (dK+Kv)

146 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (hAotW)
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You remember that I like Prometheus, right?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)

147 139 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Hate to tell you but most people here are not Prometheus fans.
Posted by: whig

It all makes sense if you watch the director's cut.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Y8DZL)

148 All the best to Teresa and Irish.
Well all of you.

Back later, hopefully to happier news.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Sco7b)

149 Weeell....I'm not dead yet. That's a win.

Posted by: Bob...no...the other Bob. at April 03, 2026 04:14 PM (7Lycq)

150 Why do we poop on a parkway but shit in a driveway?

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (mWRBW)
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Congratulations. You got me into a rolling chuckle.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:14 PM (Fi81e)

151 Teresa has good news too? A great day at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (pDt9x)

152 Down to 185. Lost 25 pounds. Just eating less and exercising more. Nothing esoteric. God bless us every one.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (eAAqq)

153 It all makes sense if you watch the director's cut.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Y8DZL)
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On mushrooms.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (Fi81e)

154 Thanks! I'm still pissing through a tube coming out of my dick, but other than that everything seems to be good. I'm really, really ready for that thing to come out.

I'm sure there are people who are into that sort of thing, but I'm not one of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Ah Foley's Catheter. I spent months on one waiting for an operation to clear an obstructed bladder. Unpleasant as hell and I still worked at the time. You do have some Azo tablets? They help with the pain of that damn apparatus. And if your doc allows it, cranberries might be a good thing to consume. You really do not want a UTI with that thing in you.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

155 This story comes via renown Yak expert Buck Dharma?

I guess it must be true.

Posted by: No Name Today at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (8mulE)

156 my little dog will be 13 in July.
When my husband was dying, he WAY overfed her; she was his "comfort animal", they deeply loved each other, and she would spend all day and all night focused on him, sitting in his lounger with him, lying with him, watching TV.
She is a mishmosh of four small breeds, two of which would happily eat until they exploded.
No matter how I tried to keep it in check, he would give her handfuls of his food, or just give her his plate.
And she ate.
By the time he passed, she weighed 16 pounds.
She should weigh 8.
When my daughter came home from a year in another state, she screamed when she saw the dog--she looked like an overinflated football with a point at each end, balanced on four other points.
It took me over a year to get her down to 8 again, and I am so glad I did, even though she was convinced I didn't love her and was trying to kill her.
She is healthy, vigorous for her age, and still a sweet dear.
May she continue, God willing!

Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (enw9G)

157 >>About 8-10 years ago I finally quit smoking for good after reading Alan Carr's "Easy Way to Quit Smoking" which was recommended by our own Ace. (Many, many thanks to you, Ace.) Since that time, I have gone religiously for the once yearly low-dose CT scan of lungs that is offered to smokers/former smokers.
Every one was negative. My doctor suggested that since I had been doing it for at least 8 years, I could probably stop. I asked for just one more, and he said okay. Well, it showed a very small spot on the right lower lobe. After much testing it was confirmed as Stage I CA. Please note that I had no symptoms whatsoever that anything was wrong.
I had the CA removed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NYC about two weeks ago. Doc got it all. No chemo, no radiation required. There were a few glitches, but I've been home for more than a week and feeling better and stronger every day. Thank you to all of you for your prayers!

o thank God, I was worried in that second part.

I'm thinking of getting that book again because I've been using a vape and want to quit. It triggers an allergy response in me and I'm just tired of being dependent on a drug.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (1wjle)

158 Silica is supposed to clear aluminum deposits from the brain. You can buy the mineral mix to add to water or you can drink Fiji water. Fiji water has the highest silica in bottled water. Simple enough to try it

https://tinyurl.com/y3s75aef

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (gQ15S)

159 All I know is that Placebo must be a wonder drug, because they test every other drug for every ailment against it, and it usually provides some benefit every time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (0U5gm)

160 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Ace actually do that once?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

161 Liang Zhang, a neuroscientist at Shanghai Jiao Tong University,

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Oh that's just dandy.

Maybe once we're in a fifth year of attempting to put down the hordes of hypermyelinated, brain-eating RESTAT-27 zombies, our Frontline Healthcare Heroes will admit it didn't actually come from a Mongol banging a yak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (BI5O2)

162 >>>155 This story comes via renown Yak expert Buck Dharma?

yeah, he sent it. I've been to his house and have seen his Wall of Gold Records.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (1wjle)

163 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That will do wonders for your movie channel.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (E4rtv)

164 I'm sure there are people who are into that sort of thing, but I'm not one of them.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:11 PM (IG3

Best to you too.

Thanks to the Horde, when it's done for pleasure I know that's called sounding.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (Sco7b)

165 160 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Ace actually do that once?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

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Only if ace is a solipsist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (hAotW)

166 The only thing wrong with Prometheus was no-one was likeable.

And the plot made no sense.

And half the movie was cut out.

And the protagonist was unrootable for.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (aTgV0)

167 "Frequent Ejaculations Can Boost Sperm Quality, Study Suggests"

I misread frequent as "female" and went, here we go, another transgender story.

NOTE TO SELF: Wear your damn glasses. Squinting to bring text into focus stopped working 20 years ago.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 03, 2026 04:17 PM (glnUu)

168 he was on the podcast once and I avoided talking about politics because I don't want to get people in trouble

I heard from his son later, "He was kind of disappointed you didn't ask him about politics."

Sorry! I was trying to help!

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:17 PM (1wjle)

169 When does Prometheus 2 come out? I can't wait.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:17 PM (UjdFS)

170
at the cardiologist for my regular annual check up. bp was 123/85 pulse 65. heavy protein diet, minimal carbs, light exercise (walking). now down to 210 on my way past 200.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2026 04:17 PM (UWQC6)

171 This story comes via renown Yak expert Buck Dharma?

I guess it must be true.
Posted by: No Name Today at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (8mulE)
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He didn't miss the deadline.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:18 PM (Fi81e)

172 And,

JUST IN: President Trump is making moves to finally privatize TSA in airports, according to his budget submission to Congress for FY 2027.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:18 PM (E4rtv)

173 >>I'm just tired of being dependent on a drug.

Just the one?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 04:18 PM (viF8m)

174 The only thing wrong with Prometheus was no-one was likeable.
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Ah so Madison saw himself in everyone.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 04:19 PM (mWRBW)

175 >>>Just the one?
Posted by: JackStraw

A lot of us get high on life, Little Jackie Paper. I know that sounds a little square to acidheads like yourself.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:19 PM (1wjle)

176 157
I'm thinking of getting that book again because I've been using a vape and want to quit. It triggers an allergy response in me and I'm just tired of being dependent on a drug.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (1wjle)

My two cents is go with the nicotine lozenges. They worked for me. Much better than the gum and better than having 15 or 20 patches stuck on you. That might be hyperbole.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:19 PM (pDt9x)

177 The only thing wrong with Prometheus was no-one was likeable.

And the plot made no sense.

And half the movie was cut out.

And the protagonist was unrootable for.
Posted by: eleven

On the plus side TJM pimps it from time to time. That is always good for a few good natured snarks.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 03, 2026 04:19 PM (glnUu)

178 "When does Prometheus 2 come out? I can't wait.
Posted by: wth"


It came out. It didn't end well let me tell you.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:19 PM (aTgV0)

179 Strong work this week, Ace.

Go ahead and finish the afternoon and then take the rest of the week off.
Posted by: muldoon

Ace, be sure to avoid Lundberg.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (PSEDc)

180 Irish Ei, so happy for you!! Must have been a Huge weight lifted from you.
Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:12 PM (pDt9x)
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Thank you, tubal. It was. I just hope everyone will tolerate me constantly advocating for screening!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (3ImbR)

181 They shot down 3 different US aircraft ? Obviously Iran had some hidden weaponry....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (FtULh)

182 160 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Ace actually do that once?
Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

Ace *tried* to do that once, but he ended up banning himself first. Kinda took the wind out of his sails.

Posted by: No Name Today at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (8mulE)

183 A lot of us get high on life, Little Jackie Paper.

I got that reference.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (Riz8t)

184 That obese golden retriever is pathetic. Cannot even get up. I don't know how one can do that to a dog.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (/lPRQ)

185 156
Posted by: barbarausa
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My Mom has overfed a couple of dogs to death. But then, she's mostly blind so can't see how fat they are getting.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:20 PM (UjdFS)

186 >>My two cents is go with the nicotine lozenges. They worked for me. Much better than the gum and better than having 15 or 20 patches stuck on you. That might be hyperbole.

i'll look into them. right now I'm chewing a lot of gum.

Are lozenges easy to take out and then start using again later? I'm having that problem with the gum. I just don't feel like having something in my mouth all day. I don't know how garrett does it.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (1wjle)

187
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03,

I am so sorry you went through what you did, but thrilled they got it all. Yay!

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (Q9G/L)

188 160 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!

What do you mean, everyone?

Posted by: Gary Oldman at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (Riz8t)

189 I don't know if I want Yak DNA in my body.



Better to have Yak DNA in your body than muslim dna in a yak's body.

Wait.


What a day.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 04:22 PM (K3Fc+)

190 Do not take Placebo if you are allergic to Placebo or any of it's ingredients.

Posted by: Reforger at April 03, 2026 04:22 PM (SCCU1)

191 The only thing wrong with Prometheus was no-one was likeable.
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I don't need likable in movies. So, that might explain why I'm okay with it.

I enjoy a good gritty noir, if it's well done.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:23 PM (Fi81e)

192
139 Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Hate to tell you but most people here are not Prometheus fans.
Posted by: whig

It all makes sense if you watch the director's cut.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Y8DZL)



The A9 fan edit actually takes Prometheus from unwatchable drek, through "tolerable", all the way to "that was a pretty decent way to spend an evening".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 04:23 PM (y9nCu)

193 >>My two cents is go with the nicotine lozenges. They worked for me. Much better than the gum and better than having 15 or 20 patches stuck on you. That might be hyperbole.

i'll look into them. right now I'm chewing a lot of gum.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (1wjle)

Just have a heart attack. You can stop same day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 04:23 PM (dK+Kv)

194 They shot down 3 different US aircraft ? Obviously Iran had some hidden weaponry....
Posted by: It's me donna


They really hadn't had a chance to use it until recently. They are short range so they have to be pretty much right under the aircraft to take a shot.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 04:24 PM (/lPRQ)

195 186

gum.

Are lozenges easy to take out and then start using again later? I'm having that problem with the gum. I just don't feel like having something in my mouth all day. I don't know how garrett does it.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (1wjle)

They are if you set them on a little saucer or something like that. They dry really quickly. The have 2&4 mg doses. I quickly switched over to 2 and that dose seems easier to wean off of. Best of luck to you boss. You can do it. I’ll even pray for you if you don’t mind.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:24 PM (pDt9x)

196 I hope that study on MS gets worked through quickly, I have family members with MS.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 04:25 PM (rbvCR)

197 >>>They are if you set them on a little saucer or something like that. They dry really quickly. The have 2&4 mg doses. I quickly switched over to 2 and that dose seems easier to wean off of. Best of luck to you boss. You can do it. I’ll even pray for you if you don’t mind.

thanks, i'll see if CVS has them.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:25 PM (1wjle)

198 181 They shot down 3 different US aircraft ? Obviously Iran had some hidden weaponry....
Posted by: It's me donna
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Close Air Support and rescuing downed pilots/weapons officers is a difficult task. Right now, it could be that the F-15 went down first and certainly the copters were attacked while doing the rescue mission. The other aircraft, the A-10, flies at low level anyway--not clear whether it was also involved in the search for the downed F-15 pilots.

So two aircraft were lost and two copters got shot at and at least one damaged rescuing downed pilots. They got to safety okay.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv)

199 I just don't feel like having something in my mouth all day. I don't know how garrett does it.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was
......

Oh snap!

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:25 PM (UjdFS)

200 Oh, one more thing, ace, get the generics and not Nicorette brand. MUCH cheaper, and just as effective.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:26 PM (pDt9x)

201 Critical Drinker reports that the Super Mario Bros movie isn't a deep, philosophical exploration of the eternal verities. I'm shocked.

https://youtu.be/jOhyF7002sk

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (Riz8t)

202 >>>200 Oh, one more thing, ace, get the generics and not Nicorette brand. MUCH cheaper, and just as effective.

good tip, I'll do that.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (1wjle)

203 I don't know how garrett does it.

Posted by: ace

*snort*

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (A5RD0)

204 Congrats, Irish Ei.

It's a good feeling to know that it's (probably) gone.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (IG3/x)

205 IrishEye, did you have Dr. Cheung?

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (sLLbN)

206 Critical Drinker reports that the Super Mario Bros movie isn't a deep, philosophical exploration of the eternal verities. I'm shocked.

https://youtu.be/jOhyF7002sk
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (Riz8t)
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I'm not going to see it, then!

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:28 PM (Fi81e)

207
Man, I am j-j-j-j-j-j-jones-in' for a placebo right now!

* scratches his raw and bloody arms *

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 04:29 PM (xG4kz)

208 I'm thinking of getting that book again because I've been using a vape and want to quit. It triggers an allergy response in me and I'm just tired of being dependent on a drug.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (1wjle)
~~~~~

Do it, ace. I can't really figure out how it worked, but it did. I went into it convinced that it would be no better than every other technique I had tried: hypnosis, SmokEnders, accupuncture, etc. Figured my best shot was to read it in one sitting, so I did so one night and finished just before bed. Got up the next morning and said to myself, "Yeah, I'm not smoking anymore."

And that was it. I don't even remember if there were any withdrawal symptoms. I was done. You can do it, ace.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:29 PM (3ImbR)

209 My modest gains are the 5 pounds I gained from my King Cake blitz are gone. And I ran today and didn’t even whine about it.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 04:29 PM (Q9G/L)

210 good tip, I'll do that.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:27 PM (1wjle)

How long before Ace looks like that Ben Affleck meme standing there...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:29 PM (j10i6)

211 It all makes sense if you watch the director's cut.
Posted by: Auspex

It makes more sense not to watch it at all. Lots of recent movies that I simply do not care to watch ever. Plenty of good ones that I haven't seen (Thanks TJM for those), and others to rewatch.

Time is short and my attention limited to such things.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:29 PM (E4rtv)

212 Sorry, Dr. Huang?

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (sLLbN)

213 From Blue Oyster Cult legend Buck Dharma: Important Yak Content.

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Wait. The Don't Fear the Reaper guy? I don't know.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (ndZc7)

214 It took me over a year to get her down to 8 again, and I am so glad I did, even though she was convinced I didn't love her and was trying to kill her.
She is healthy, vigorous for her age, and still a sweet dear.
May she continue, God willing!
Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (enw9G)

Good for you. That's a nice story.


And screw it. All of you talked me into Prometheus. I found it free online and have 124 minutes to kill. Book reading is next week.

Besides "Freddy Got Fingered" wasn't that bad compared to today's crap so how bad can it be? 2012...no trannies, not many important messages. It'll be Shakespeare in space compared to today.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (Sco7b)

215 Integrity crew is going to perform CPR today while aboard the Orion spacecraft. Should be interesting to see how they pull it off.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (ESVrU)

216 Sorry, Dr. Huang?
Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (sLLbN)
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Will Huang.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (Fi81e)

217 Flounder!

If you haven’t recently, please reach out to Jordan61. Hubs is home from the hospital finally and she could prolly use a chuckle.

Hope baseball season is coming right along!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (A5RD0)

218 >>Do it, ace. I can't really figure out how it worked, but it did. I went into it convinced that it would be no better than every other technique I had tried: hypnosis, SmokEnders, accupuncture, etc. Figured my best shot was to read it in one sitting, so I did so one night and finished just before bed. Got up the next morning and said to myself, "Yeah, I'm not smoking anymore."

you don't have to sell me, I know it works! I quit smoking after three days and haven't smoked again since. I only started vaping years later because a doctor (yes a doctor) told me I could try that to improve my focus.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (1wjle)

219 I have a gain, and I have Ace and the blog to thank for it. Long discussions of creatine tempted me. I asked both my hematologist and my gp about it and they both said to try it as long as I promised to have a kidney check in 3 months. I have a couple of medical conditions that make many things iffy.

By the end of the first week, I felt so much stronger and more alert. I am tearing around doing things that exhausted me to think about a month ago!

Thank you all! And that kidney test better be good because I now can't imagine doing without it.

Posted by: Wenda at April 03, 2026 04:31 PM (dXTLm)

220 >>Just have a heart attack. You can stop same day.

Worked for me.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (viF8m)

221 > I'm sorry to hear of your travail. It's good to hear they think they got the tumor!
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:09 PM (1wjle)

Thanks!

Ah Foley's Catheter.
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:15 PM (E4rtv)

Yeah, that's the one. A clever bit of apparatus, but not exactly designed for comfort.

At least I've been cleared to use a plug in the damned thing, which I can pull when my bladder gets full. For a while I was walking around with a bag of urine strapped to my leg.

Again, not being judgy here, but that's not something I find a turn-on. Heh.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (IG3/x)

222 Do not take Placebo if you are allergic to Placebo or any of it's ingredients.
Posted by: Reforger
.......

side effects include anal leakage, swelling between the anus and genitals, and death

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (UjdFS)

223 >>Testosterone is not always linked to male well-being, claims someone posting as "Gonah Joldberg."

As someone who has cycled before, I can tell you this, 250mg of Testosterone Enanthate/Cypionate twice weekly will make you feel like you could pick up a truck and pick up a chick all at the same time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (XV/Pl)

224 I am eating unmodified potato starch as a resistant starch. Supposed to feed your little buddies in your gut biome. 90+% of them. So far just 2 teaspoons a day.

Results aren't in quite yet. But the studies quoted say 2-4 weeks for resistant starch to really make a difference.
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:13 PM (Fi81e)


I discovered that statins can spike your blood sugar, and the suspected mechanism is that it suppresses the growth of Clostridium sp. in your gut. The non-problematic Clostridiae species are involved in excreting compounds that are used by the liver.
Anyhow, my fasting blood glucose levels are creeping up again.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (rbvCR)

225 I tried getting high on life, once.
Worst hangover I’ve ever had.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (6ydKt)

226 just don't feel like having something in my mouth all day. I don't know how garrett does it.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:21 PM (1wjle)


This place....😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (SRRAx)

227 "And screw it. All of you talked me into Prometheus. I found it free online and have 124 minutes to kill. "

Just think, you'll have another 123 minutes left to kill doing something else after turning it on...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (j10i6)

228
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was


She was the one with the pork chop tied around her neck in order to get the other dogs to play with her.

Now, write that down since you can't remember it!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (xG4kz)

229 Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?
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Cut my Rx Metformin in half 4/1

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

230 side effects include anal leakage, swelling between the anus and genitals

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:32 PM (UjdFS)
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When you're Don Le Mon.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (Fi81e)

231 @201

>>Critical Drinker reports that the Super Mario Bros movie isn't a deep, philosophical exploration of the eternal verities. I'm shocked.

If it's a cute and adorable as the 1st film, it's going to make a billion dollars.

And even if it's not, it's largely got a multi-generational audience baked into the cake.

It's going to make dough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (XV/Pl)

232 >>>IrishEye, did you have Dr. Cheung?
~~~~~

Nope. Rocco. Big Italican guy. Can't say enough about MSK - outstanding.

-------------------------

Thank you, piper!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:35 PM (3ImbR)

233 If it's a cute and adorable as the 1st film, it's going to make a billion dollars.

And even if it's not, it's largely got a multi-generational audience baked into the cake.

It's going to make dough.


You're probably right. It's apparently nothing but a nonstop barrage of movement, sound and color. It's perfect for Gen Z and Alpha.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 04:36 PM (Riz8t)

234 Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once

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It's called a Grateful Dead plant.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:36 PM (ndZc7)

235
To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)

236 Swapping back to keto. Found a good recipe for a egg, sausage, spinach casserole that I liked a lot.

Makin bacon right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (bss/y)

237 If it's a cute and adorable as the 1st film, it's going to make a billion dollars.

And even if it's not, it's largely got a multi-generational audience baked into the cake.

It's going to make dough.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (XV/Pl)
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I like anything that makes Chris Pratt box office.

Because you can almost guess that plenty of people in Hollywood would like to see him go.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Fi81e)

238 >>>I have a gain, and I have Ace and the blog to thank for it. Long discussions of creatine tempted me. I asked both my hematologist and my gp about it and they both said to try it as long as I promised to have a kidney check in 3 months. I have a couple of medical conditions that make many things iffy.
By the end of the first week, I felt so much stronger and more alert. I am tearing around doing things that exhausted me to think about a month ago!

great! I haven't been taking as much because the dose I want (about 15 mg) causes GI issues. I switched to creatine HCL (instead of the more common creatine monhydride) and that helped a bit. It also helped not having it in my coffee. Coffee plus creatine was too much for my plumbing.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)

239 >>>Cut my Rx Metformin in half 4/1

cool! Congrats.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:39 PM (1wjle)

240 >>> I just hope everyone will tolerate me constantly advocating for screening!

I do the same browbeating. I got prostate cancer but nipped it in the bud. The urologist was so somber. "Well, I'm sorry. but it is cancer." I just laughed. After leiomyosarcoma, prostate cancer just doesn't rate. 5 jolts of the Fermi Remedy and I'm good to go.

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 04:39 PM (sLLbN)

241 "Nope. Rocco. Big Italican guy."

I guess Moose must have been tied up helping the judge find his wallet.

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 04:39 PM (j10i6)

242
Wait. The Don't Fear the Reaper guy? I don't know.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (ndZc7)



Buck is a Moron, has been for years. I dunno about you folks, but I'm honored to share that title with him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 04:39 PM (y9nCu)

243 15 grams, I meant, not mg.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:40 PM (1wjle)

244 Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) are a good source of inulin. They were a thing in the 70s. We could buy them in the produce aisle. If I recall correctly, they taste somewhat like jicama.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 03, 2026 04:40 PM (FMtrg)

245 235 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)

Take Goodfellas for instance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:40 PM (6ydKt)

246 IAB, wth, and Stateless, I never should have let it get out of hand, but the dachs and chihuahua are strong in her. She lives to eat.
My husband loved food, and his eyes were bigger than his appetite as he declined, and he raised absolute hell if anyone tried to convince him to take SOME, and have a bit more if he felt good. He wanted the whole steak, and a baked potato, and so on.
He'd have a few bites, and hand her the plate, and she would have wolfed as much down as she could (which was plenty) before I could grab it.
Vet gave me a great tip--she can have as many vegs as she wants, and she absolutely loves any kind of bean or pea.
I get the mini cans of low sodium peas and carrots, and drain one into a container in the fridge. She can have a small handful (8-10 peas, 2-3 little cubes of carrot) for a treat, and it is good for her.
After every walk, she lines up at the fridge for her peas and carrots!

Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:40 PM (enw9G)

247 @242

>>Buck is a Moron, has been for years. I dunno about you folks, but I'm honored to share that title with him.

Have you ever seen Buck and Ace?

They're probably brothers or cousins.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:41 PM (XV/Pl)

248 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)
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I was thinking of Rami's A Simple Plan. One of my favorite movies. Bill Paxton's character is the most likeable and he's still bad. He just has intentions closer to good.

Or like the Gentlemen, where the the most sympathetic characters are still mobsters, and quite ruthless--perhaps not Colin Farrell's Coach.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

249 >>>I guess Moose must have been tied up helping the judge find his wallet.
~~~~~

Hah!

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:42 PM (3ImbR)

250 >>Critical Drinker reports that the Super Mario Bros movie isn't a deep, philosophical exploration of the eternal verities. I'm shocked.

If it's a cute and adorable as the 1st film, it's going to make a billion dollars.

And even if it's not, it's largely got a multi-generational audience baked into the cake.

It's going to make dough.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:34 PM (XV/Pl)
_____________________________

I'd go if it had an NC-17 rating. Two Italian guys running around with unlimited weapons in a Shroom based Kingdom. Princess Peach is a nymphomaniac, which, of course, causes issues with the brothers. The scenarios are endless...and disgusting.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 04:42 PM (dIske)

251 Yeah, that's the one. A clever bit of apparatus, but not exactly designed for comfort.

At least I've been cleared to use a plug in the damned thing, which I can pull when my bladder gets full. For a while I was walking around with a bag of urine strapped to my leg.

Again, not being judgy here, but that's not something I find a turn-on. Heh.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

When working with one, I wore Fisherman's pants that convert into shorts. Easy enough to unzip the short a bit and drop the exhaust line into the toilet for unloading.

The Azo tablets are actually a food safe clothing dye that for whatever reason reduce urinary inflammation/pain but in return makes your pee a deep stainable orange in color. Over the counter at drug stores and I think there is a similar product from another brand name.

I had to get over severe UTIs by months of antibiotics before the docs would consider surgery and then I found out that the local docs misdiagnosed me with an enlarged prostate when I actually had a bladder obstruction. So I dumped the local docs and went to Mayo Scottsdale AZ for cold holmium laser removal of the obstruction.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:42 PM (E4rtv)

252
I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)

253 >>> Can't say enough about MSK - outstanding.

It's a factory, but it's clean as hell, great-looking nurses and doctors if I'm being honest. I had both lungs done so I had to stay for 3 days. Food's good!

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (sLLbN)

254 160 I'm banning EVERYONE!!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Didn't Ace actually do that once?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

Did he ban himself once?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (ynpvh)

255 235 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)

Take Goodfellas for instance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

and The Way We Were

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:44 PM (UjdFS)

256 And screw it. All of you talked me into Prometheus. I found it free online and have 124 minutes to kill. Book reading is next week.

Besides "Freddy Got Fingered" wasn't that bad compared to today's crap so how bad can it be? 2012...no trannies, not many important messages. It'll be Shakespeare in space compared to today.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:30 PM (Sco7b)

You just can't save people from themselves...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 04:44 PM (xcxpd)

257 Totally unrelated to anything, but on Chris Plante's morning show yesterday, he explained how Seals & Croft vanished.

The wrote a pro-life song in 1974.

It sounds incredible just 2 years after Roe v. Wade. But it ended their careers, apparently.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:44 PM (Fi81e)

258 The Flat Earthers are not real, it's a lark, I don't believe it for one second.

It's a conspiracy to give NDT something to yammer about.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 04:45 PM (XV/Pl)

259 I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)

Thankfully I just vacated my office that I shared with one. Fuking idiot. New office is basically a closet but at least I'm not near him.

Posted by: Reforger at April 03, 2026 04:45 PM (SCCU1)

260 great! I haven't been taking as much because the dose I want (about 15 mg) causes GI issues. I switched to creatine HCL (instead of the more common creatine monhydride) and that helped a bit. It also helped not having it in my coffee. Coffee plus creatine was too much for my plumbing.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:38 PM (1wjle)

I have found the gastro stuff is usually very food dependent. Mixing it with milk helps.

But I still have to stay away from tomato.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 04:45 PM (bss/y)

261 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)

Take Goodfellas for instance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
......

and The Way We Were
Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:44 PM (UjdFS)
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Yeah, but there's usually somebody likable in a Barbara Streisand movie.

Take What's Up Doc, for example....

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (Fi81e)

262 Coming up on the end of the medical weight management program (rapid weight loss under doctor supervision), now entering the third week of transition back to "regular" food. After 16 weeks of high-protein shakes, bars, and soup, they ease you back to normal nutrition over 6 weeks to prevent your insides from seizing up. DH and I did it together; he's lost 47 lbs, I've lost 45. Unfortunately I still have another 15 to go to reach my goal of losing 60 lbs and attaining a "healthy" BMI. It's been a slog but there's light (and tacos) at the end of the tunnel!

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (NtoJk)

263 >>Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

I put my boat up for sale. On consignment with Ashley Marine. I feel better already. And I'll feel even better once it actually sells.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (Y1sOo)

264 252
I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)

Just observe a ship on the ocean moving away from the shore...it starts to disappear from the bottom up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

265 259 I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.
Posted by: publius
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Glad you have the patience to try to teach them something but unfortunately terminal stupidity is not a curable disease.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (E4rtv)

266 I think the best part of The Stand mini-series from the 90s was the opening scenes of Captain Trips virus spreading while Don’t Fear The Reaper played in the background.

I’ve loved that song ever since.

Needs more cowbell, but otherwise it’s perfect.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (6ydKt)

267 Did he ban himself once?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (ynpvh)
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He was talking to himself and got a little too personal.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (Fi81e)

268 252
I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

Posted by: publius

They're not landing 'cause Stanley Kubrick's dead and can't do the special effect moon walking.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (Y8DZL)

269
If Super Mario Galaxy is as cute and adorable as the 1st film, it's going to make a billion dollars.

And even if it's not, it's largely got a multi-generational audience baked into the cake.


I am contemplating taking the gKids to see it next week. For me the fun is watching them watching it.

It's going to be loud though -- the trailer itself is loud.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

270 263 >>Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

I put my boat up for sale. On consignment with Ashley Marine. I feel better already. And I'll feel even better once it actually sells.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (Y1sOo)

Ah, one of the two greatest moments owning a boat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

271 >>>Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

Gainzzz?

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:47 PM (fNISR)

272 I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)
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What if the Earth is round and the Moon is flat? Do they have answer for that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

273 261 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)
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No necessarily in the category of "great" movies, but entertaining. "American Psycho" had absolutely not likeable characters. None. I would add "The Wolf of Wallstreet" has a similar situation.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 04:49 PM (dIske)

274 263 >>Does anyone have any health gains they'd like to report to the group?

I put my boat up for sale. On consignment with Ashley Marine. I feel better already. And I'll feel even better once it actually sells.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 04:46 PM (Y1sOo)

Boat guy here. Found myself with 2, somehow. Just sold one and it feels GREAT! Sooner or later you have too many boats. Like 2.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 04:49 PM (pDt9x)

275 I'd go if it had an NC-17 rating. Two Italian guys running around with unlimited weapons in a Shroom based Kingdom. Princess Peach is a nymphomaniac, which, of course, causes issues with the brothers. The scenarios are endless...and disgusting.
Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 04:42 PM (dIske)

Or....awesome?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

276 What if the Earth is round and the Moon is flat? Do they have answer for that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)
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Duh. Haven't you heard, the moon is a hollow, metallic structure to capture Earth souls!!

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)

277 Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:40 PM (enw9G

I can't judge. After a neighbour was cat-napping outdoor cats, I took my friends' outdoor cats in since they lived here before. In a few months, poor Snowflake went from 8 to 12 pounds.

She's healthy and outdoors again.

But you obviously also had bigger concerns. I'm sorry on the loss of your husband.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (Sco7b)

278 272 I'm having a ball. The flat-earthers are having conniption fits over the pictures of earth Artemis has started sending back. They are "debunking" them, cause you know, the earth is flat and space is fake and gay.

It's a hoot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:43 PM (w6EFb)
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What if the Earth is round and the Moon is flat? Do they have answer for that?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:48 PM (ESVrU)

Darth FlatEarth finds you're lack of faith disturbing...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (ynpvh)

279 You guys didn't like Henry Hill?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (aTgV0)

280 Plus, a few months ago I bought a fancy scale on amazon (sale.)

Gives a body type breakdown, % fat, skeletal muscle, whole nine yards.

One annoying kind of funny thing, It lists my weight level as 'Obese' and my body type as 'obese.' WTF, scale? lol.

At this point, while I have been eating crap, I have continued to lift, so I have more muscle than at any time since high school. Now I am still about 30 lbs off my weight then, but still.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (bss/y)

281 Just observe a ship on the ocean moving away from the shore...it starts to disappear from the bottom up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

It's just sinking. Duh.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (UjdFS)

282 To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)

Take Goodfellas for instance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf


The White Lotus mini-series featured entire casts of unlikable characters. Not a single person in them was worth a damn. Yet they were amazingly watchable and interesting.

Posted by: tankascribe at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (NtoJk)

283 281 Just observe a ship on the ocean moving away from the shore...it starts to disappear from the bottom up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

It's just sinking. Duh.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (UjdFS)

And unsinks itself when it sails back!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:51 PM (ynpvh)

284 Galileo proved the Moon wasn't flat when he figured out that the dark circles on it had shadows, like what his Italian painter buddies were noticing on curved objects they were painting.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 03, 2026 04:51 PM (gKWVE)

285
I was thinking of Rami's A Simple Plan. One of my favorite movies. Bill Paxton's character is the most likeable and he's still bad. He just has intentions closer to good.

You should read the book. If you think the movie characters are bad, in the book, EVERYONE is just downright evil. The stuff that the main character is willing to do in order to find and steal back a single $100 bill are downright diabolical. That got cut from the screenplay.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:41 PM (Fi81e)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 04:51 PM (y9nCu)

286 >>Sooner or later you have too many boats.

You people are weird.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (viF8m)

287 Duh. Haven't you heard, the moon is a hollow, metallic structure to capture Earth souls!!
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)
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Could also be a giant egg, like in that terrible Doctor Who episode...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (ESVrU)

288 And unsinks itself when it sails back!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 04:51 PM (ynpvh)
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Modern technology, what can't it do?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:53 PM (Fi81e)

289
Having finally gotten fed up with how much crap we have in this place, starting tomorrow I am going to begin to assuage my wrath by beginning to dispose of said crap out of our basement and our garage. This has been long overdue for the doing.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 04:53 PM (xG4kz)

290 My only health news is that I’m now paying $131 a week for the gold plan health insurance at work.

I guess $6300 a year isn’t too terrible for health insurance these days.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

291 Could also be a giant egg, like in that terrible Doctor Who episode...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (ESVrU)


Can you narrow that down a bit?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)

292 At this point, while I have been eating crap, I have continued to lift, so I have more muscle than at any time since high school. Now I am still about 30 lbs off my weight then, but still.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026

Is it based off of BMI? I hate that metric. I want one of the scales that tells you your metabolic age in addition to all the rest of the stuff. Except bmi. I don’t care about that at all.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 04:54 PM (pZEOD)

293 Duh. Haven't you heard, the moon is a hollow, metallic structure to capture Earth souls!!
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (Fi81e)
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Could also be a giant egg, like in that terrible Doctor Who episode...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (ESVrU)
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But it definitely does not have a bite out of it, like it did for the remainder of the Tick cartoon series. (And said "HA" after Chairface tried to carve his name on the moon and the planet eater ate the C).

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (Fi81e)

294 It's just sinking. Duh.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (UjdFS)

And unsinks itself when it sails back!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Now you're just trying to confuse everybody.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (UjdFS)

295 When modern technology can make frozen pizza as good as a pizzeria I'll know we have arrived as a spacefaring race.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (aTgV0)

296 279 You guys didn't like Henry Hill?
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (aTgV0)

For a cocaine addict, drug dealing, mafioso I guess he wasn’t too bad.

Not somebody I’d want over for dinner without hiding the good silverware, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (6ydKt)

297 Is it based off of BMI? I hate that metric. I want one of the scales that tells you your metabolic age in addition to all the rest of the stuff. Except bmi. I don’t care about that at all.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 04:54 PM (pZEOD)

It does have a body age. I ignore the BMI.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (bss/y)

298 Just started binge watching Burn Notice . Forgot how good it was.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (V4IXI)

299 Could also be a giant egg, like in that terrible Doctor Who episode...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (ESVrU)


Can you narrow that down a bit?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)
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And does that substantially differentiate from the silly episodes?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (Fi81e)

300 Stateless, the argument I tried with him was that he loved her so much he shouldn't feed her to death, but it gave him pleasure to please her, and she has a killer winsome expression.
It's been a couple years, and I'm starting to get more in gear.
I'm honestly thankful I had the dog to focus on and take care of.
She really is the best girl
(she curled up in his lounger looking sad for months after he died. I think she still misses him)

Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (enw9G)

301 Youtube just asked me if I thought "I Remember Larry" by Weird Al should be recommended for children. That's the song where Larry pranks Al too many times and then Al ties him in a plastic bag and leaves him innawoods.
I said yes. YT asked why; I chose "it teaches life skills".

Posted by: gKWVE because eff youtube and eff bullies at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (gKWVE)

302 290 My only health news is that I’m now paying $131 a week for the gold plan health insurance at work.

I guess $6300 a year isn’t too terrible for health insurance these days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:53 PM (6ydKt)

I'm in Canada and healthcare is "FREE, FREE! FREE!!!"

With only a few downsides....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (Sco7b)

303 >>>Food's good!
~~~~~

Yep. Gained 3 lbs. *eyeroll*

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (3ImbR)

304
Here's some of the first images NASA has posted:

https://is.gd/uZXdEt

Note from their perspective the earth is upside down. In those pics, the south pole is in the upper right and north pole lower left. That's the Sahara on the left, with Spain peeking in from the lower left. Brazil is also visible on the right, just under a lot of clouds.

And note this the night side of earth. That bright one is overexposed or processed as such.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (w6EFb)

305 Ace,
I'm taking whatever the minimum creatine dose is. I take it as part of a morning drink of collagen and a power drink. Thick as malted milk. So far no problem.

And once again, thanks. It has really mattered.

Posted by: Wenda at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (dXTLm)

306 >>>155 This story comes via renown Yak expert Buck Dharma?

yeah, he sent it. I've been to his house and have seen his Wall of Gold Records.
Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 04:16 PM



I am green with envy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 04:57 PM (4NO2D)

307 There is no dark side of the Earth.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (aTgV0)

308 I'm honestly thankful I had the dog to focus on and take care of.
She really is the best girl
(she curled up in his lounger looking sad for months after he died. I think she still misses him)
Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM

Digital hugs to both of you.
Older dogs are a lot of work

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (Sco7b)

309 You guys didn't like Henry Hill?
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (aTgV0)
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Ray Liotta became my favorite actor after that movie.

I said over and over that Liotta didn't belong on screen with Pesci and DeNiro and he was going to get "blown off the screen".

And found out how wrong I was. But not just for Goodfellas, though.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (Fi81e)

310 >>> To be fair, there's any number of great movies with no likable characters.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 04:37 PM (Y8DZL)


A Fish Called Wanda

I dislike every character in the movie. Except for his wife who gets a bad rap and I think was the most likable person. Probably a Thatcherette, my kind of woman. But I still really liked the movie.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (3uBP9)

311
And the bright dot to the lower right is Venus, I think.

If it weren't for the atmosphere, you see Venus to the east of the Sun, then Saturn, Mars, and Mercury all lined up to the West of the sun. Still too close to the Sun to see any of the latter at sunrise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (w6EFb)

312 Could also be a giant egg, like in that terrible Doctor Who episode...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:52 PM (ESVrU)


Can you narrow that down a bit?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 04:54 PM (/lPRQ)
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Sure. "Kill the Moon" from Series Eight of the new Doctor Who. Peter Capaldi is the Twelfth Doctor and his companion is Clara Oswald. They stumble into a lunar mission where "moon spiders" are causing problems. Then they discover the Moon is alive and have to decide whether or not to "abort" the hatching moonspawn, thus saving planet Earth, or allow it to hatch, which might destroy Earth. Terrible episode from start to finish with heavy-handed pro-abortion messaging.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (ESVrU)

313 You guys didn't like Henry Hill?
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (aTgV0)

I couldn't stand being around the real Henry Hill for a second based on his Howard astern appearances.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 03, 2026 04:58 PM (V4IXI)

314 295 When modern technology can make frozen pizza as good as a pizzeria I'll know we have arrived as a spacefaring race.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 04:55 PM (aTgV0)

Something happens when flash freezing partially cooked food that makes it taste like frozen partially cooked food forever.

Crap, I was going to make tacos but now you have me thinking about pizza.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 04:59 PM (6ydKt)

315 I still have a tri-toon. I'm not selling that. Perfect for the relatively calm waters of Pensacola Bay (new home of American Magic) and even calmer Escambia Bay.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 04:59 PM (Y1sOo)

316
Just observe a ship on the ocean moving away from the shore...it starts to disappear from the bottom up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

It's just sinking. Duh.

Posted by: wth at April 03, 2026 04:50 PM (UjdFS)

And unsinks itself when it sails back!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)


Actually, those ships are going down to Davey Jones' locker room for a shower and a change of garments.

The trans boats are provoking all others to no end by their insistence that "they belong". They will shortly receive their comeuppance unless they back off, and that right soon

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

317 304. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Thanks! 👍

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 05:00 PM (NFX2v)

318
Americans are so wasteful!!!

After putting all that time and effort on that Golden Retriever, getting her-

all nice and plump and juicy and fat.

They didn't even eat her!!!!

What a waste!

*wipes drool from mouth*

This country sucks.

Posted by: Ex-Preezy Barack Obama at April 03, 2026 05:00 PM (iJfKG)

319 Thanks Stateless.
She is not so much work now that she's healthy again.
If I take good care of her, her mix of breeds means she could live as long as 20.
Here's hoping!

Posted by: barbarausa at April 03, 2026 05:00 PM (enw9G)

320 >> Glad you have the patience to try to teach them something

Oh I wouldn't engage with these loons at all -- they're nutjobs, ineducable. I just enjoy like watching a NASCAR crash.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

321 Nood

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 05:01 PM (Sco7b)

322 And screw it. All of you talked me into Prometheus. I found it free online and have 124 minutes to kill.

It's Idiocrasy, with starships.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:02 PM (4NO2D)

323 Actually have a website that shows ship to ship sighting for sailing ship saved

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 05:02 PM (Ia/+0)

324 With only a few downsides....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 04:56 PM (Sco7b)

Don’t tell them you’re depressed too often or they’ll just start handing you the MAiD brochure when you walk through the door.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 03, 2026 05:02 PM (6ydKt)

325 dammit

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 05:03 PM (4NO2D)

326 55 That fat golden retriever video was beautiful. God bless that lady. That's a lot of work.

Thanks ace.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 03:57 PM (Sco7b)

Agreed!

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:03 PM (fNISR)

327
Ray Liotta became my favorite actor after that movie.


I liked his work in Dominic and Eugene as well as in Cop Land.

I have never seen Cocaine Bear, though, so my perspective on his acting range may be skewed.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 05:05 PM (xG4kz)

328 My oncologist saw I had an excess of red blood cells. She suspected polycythemia vera, a type of blood cancer that leads to the overproduction of red blood cells.

She also saw a high level pf testosterone. I was taking testosterone shots to stop bone loss. That was the culprit in red blood cell production. Not good for you.

Posted by: javems at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (zFsEm)

329 I highly recommend Moron help clearing things, if you can get it. I was blessed to have Salty, then Snail Racer and her husband, move stuff from my converted garage to the new shed. I still need to haul things to the dump and Goodwill but I have free space to move things around.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 03, 2026 05:12 PM (gQ15S)

330 315 I still have a tri-toon. I'm not selling that. Perfect for the relatively calm waters of Pensacola Bay (new home of American Magic) and even calmer Escambia Bay.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 04:59 PM (Y1sOo)
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Now I want some shrimp from Joe Patti's.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 05:13 PM (oqH4h)

Religiosity Surges Among Young People, David French Says "You're Welcome"

Wait I don't think this has anything to do with cuckchair model David French.


Last September, Pastor Jason Howard of the Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh saw a surge of young people flocking to his Christian congregation, the week after Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Howard knew that something had shifted. Yes, their congregation had always been predominantly youth-driven, but this was different. Lines began to form for their services. Public transportation was dropping off children by the busload from campuses across the city, and he knew that he had an obligation to expand. Howard teamed up with local college students at the University of Pittsburgh, and a revival called Pitt Purposes was held on campus, attracting about 600 students and led by members of the university's football team.

But the youth movement didn't pause. In fact, it grew, leading to last week's revival at the University of Pittsburgh's Peterson Center that attracted thousands and included hundreds of baptisms, most in pickup trucks.

Howard said that after Pitt for Jesus happened in the fall, they really wanted to do a follow-up. "Our hope was that we could do something big like at the Petersen Event Center," he said.

Jake Overman, the captain of the Pitt football team, reached out to Unite Us, a ministry that has partnered with university students to organize big arena events at college campuses. Overman, who might get drafted or picked up as a free agent in next month's draft in Pittsburgh, led the Pitt for Jesus movement last fall.

There is one catch: Unite Us almost exclusively does events below the Mason-Dixon line. Nonetheless, they secured the Petersen Event Center, located in the middle of the Oakland Campus, and Overman and an army of students began canvassing the local campuses here for turnout.

There are several universities and colleges in the Pittsburgh area: Carnegie Mellon, Duquesne, Robert Morris, LaRoche, Point Park, Carlow, Chatham, and Allegheny Community College.

By the time the event happened last week, over 5,000 young people were in attendance, with several hundred of them choosing to be baptized that evening.

They are not alone. For the first time in decades, faith in this country is growing, not retreating -- particularly among our young people, something that I've been reporting for the past year. In my rural parish, a Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Greensburg, our attendance has nearly doubled since last fall. Unless you get to Mass at least 15 minutes before services begin, you are left standing for the entire service -- and that is with added folding chairs in the back, along the side, and with the choir pews above us filled.

...

On Sunday, the Mother of Sorrows parish, which is also part of the Diocese of Greensburg, also had standing-room-only services on Palm Sunday. This has become the norm every Sunday. All three parking lots were packed, with cars straddling the grass leading down to the highway. Nearby Dick's Diner was also filled with parishioners.

The surge in Roman Catholic Church converts is being felt across the United States. Dioceses in the Rust Belt, Midwest, and Bible Belt are seeing record numbers of people received into the Catholic Church. Last fall, the New York Times reported that the Archdioceses of Detroit, Galveston-Houston, and Des Moines are also seeing significant increases.

...

"What we're witnessing right now is an answer to many years of prayers," he said. "Seeing this many college students turn to Jesus, and not just in a casual way but in a passionate way; willing to follow him wholeheartedly."

...

"I think overall young people are really looking for something real, and I think that this generation has really gotten to the point where the world seems out of control, and the world seems to be so subjective," Howard said.

He added that people are desperately looking for something absolute to anchor their lives in. "And, of course, God is the absolute that can anchor our lives."


Haz
@Michael_Haz

The TLM order that has been entrusted with my parish cannot ordain new priests fast enough to keep up with the requests from bishops to take over closed churches for parishoners who have asked for a Latin Mass. Wherever they are sent, the once-closed churches have filled pews several times, every Sunday. It's a beautiful thing to see and hear, especially all the newly initiated young singles, couples and families.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM




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1 America's Pastor, David French, lol

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (HXT0k)

2 Our Church surged in membership and it is sustaining. I love this is happening for humanity’s sake.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (Wmg4n)

3 The only religion that matters is women giving people swords in lakes.


M'kay?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (aTgV0)

4 Give me your tired, your poor, your transgendered and I will wash their feet

Especially if they are in miniskirts

Posted by: David French at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

5 "Our Church surged in membership and it is sustaining. I love this is happening for humanity’s sake.
Posted by: Piper"


Religion made Cathedrals.

That tells me a lot about religion.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (aTgV0)

6 By the way, the number of young men and teenagers who attend services on their own is also heart lifting.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (Wmg4n)

7 Our parish, which used to be standing room only Polish, is not getting the same surge. We have had normal attendance for Holy Week so far. See how Easter goes. We are not near any college though.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (wGerL)

8 The only religion that matters is women giving people swords in lakes.


M'kay?"

Moistened Bint?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (XuXeR)

9 The only religion that matters is women giving people swords in lakes.


M'kay?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM


Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (0N4FZ)

10 Can someone explain the French connection (heh)? I didn't see it or don't understand it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (aZm/F)

11 Can someone explain the French connection (heh)? I didn't see it or don't understand it.

As a more serious Christian then you, obviously I am responsible for helping today's youth embrace religion. Especially the ones with pump juicy ladyballs

Posted by: David French at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

12 Religion made Cathedrals.

That tells me a lot about religion"

One particular faith kept the West alive...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR)

13 There is nothing farcical about getting a freaking sword from a lady in a freaking lake.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (aTgV0)

14 "Religiosity Surges Among Young People"

"Yea, bro. Where else ya gonna meet hot young ladies? Tinder?"

-- Aspiring Chad

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

15
As a more serious Christian then you, obviously I am responsible for helping today's youth embrace religion. Especially the ones with pump juicy ladyballs
Posted by: David French at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (sKqQm)

-------

Ahhh, thank you, David. I now understand that you are the determiner of who Christians should vote for and what they should think of Trump, but not Biden.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (aZm/F)

16 Can someone explain the French connection (heh)? I didn't see it or don't understand it.
Posted by: Seems Legit


Forget it. He's on a roll... possibly sesame or Kaiser.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (diia5)

17 David French's Christianity is......strange.

Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (YwEeS)

18 Article at American Thinker says King Chuck who had a Ramadan dinner at the palace has no Easter message this year.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (Ia/+0)

19 How dare you morans make this religious thread political.

May you tan in Heck.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (aTgV0)

20 My church will have three services on Easter day, and two on Saturday. And it is a large congregation on any Sunday. It is great to see it, now to sustain it.


Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (2WIwB)

21 I sincerely forgot about David French being an absolute asshole about everything and sanctimonious while doing it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (aZm/F)

22 Praise God! I've been praying for revival. I don't have much of a feel for what's going on generally. Our church sanctuary is stuffed to the gills during the school year with students from the local (Christian) university and our young families keep having babies, but since we are fairly new here we don't have a comparison.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (FMtrg)

23 It would be cool if david french were on fire so we could all refuse to piss on him.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (MIIRH)

24 I hope this is true:



Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
@BabakTaghvaee1
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BREAKING: According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.

He ejected, survived the crash, and is now safe in Iraq.

This is good news for the 48th Fighter Wing community at RAF Lakenheath—both crew members of the downed F-15E are now safe.

Also, the crew members of the second HH-60W helicopter involved in the rescue operation of the second crew member, which was shot upon by means of MANPADS, are also safe.

Left video below shows the second HC-130J involved in this operation over Khark Island and the right video shows the first one near Yasuj.

Posted by: beckster at April 03, 2026 02:44 PM (kX27y)

25 21 I sincerely forgot about David French being an absolute asshole about everything and sanctimonious while doing it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (aZm/F)

David French has become a living synecdoche for being an absolute asshole about everything and sanctimonious while doing it. The actual mammal with a byline signified by the sounds "David French" is entirely irrelevant anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (VR4+k)

26 Man, the mid-afternoon noodist seem to have taken a break.....

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Don't Mind, I'm Always Nude! at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (dmDsy)

27 Thank you, beckster.

Welcome news.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (aTgV0)

28 23 It would be cool if david french were on fire so we could all refuse to piss on him.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (MIIRH)

Christ never peed on anybody.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 02:46 PM (VR4+k)

29 21 I sincerely forgot about David French being an absolute asshole about everything and sanctimonious while doing it.
===
Youd be surprised at how easy this is to do. I know his wife and i were having a merry old time, having forgotten he was i. The room, when he chirped some ridiculous comment about messing up his brand new eygptian cotton sheets!

Posted by: Mrs French's Bull at April 03, 2026 02:46 PM (Ha2dl)

30 David French has become a living synecdoche for being an absolute asshole about everything and sanctimonious while doing it. The actual mammal with a byline signified by the sounds "David French" is entirely irrelevant anymore.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (VR4+k)


Man, I had to look up "synecdoche"... great use of that word!

*thumbs up emoji*

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (dmDsy)

31 Is it fair to call David French the Apostate pathetic and a weirdo?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (zg83K)

32 I hadn't been to church since I was 16 years old. Last week, I attended the weekly Worship on the Water held in the world famous FloraBama Lounge. It was a unique experience attending a church service held in a bar.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (Y1sOo)

33 When the Misses is having fun with a bull:

Jonah Goldberg plays X-box in his cuckshed
David French offers to wash the man's feet...and other parts

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

34 The one main effect of this I see (beyond young families that dwarf mine) is that the younger priests are generally...a whole lot better than the older ones.

Granted, my favorite priest, the former Monseigneur at the cathedral in Charleston, was in his 50s, but in the new parish, the younger ones are more observant of the rites and keeping to structure and keeping things feeling...holy instead of like some sort of festival where they are the star.

I kind of hate priests who were ordained in the 60s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:49 PM (hAotW)

35 20

20 My church will have three services on Easter day, and two on Saturday. And it is a large congregation on any Sunday. It is great to see it, now to sustain it.

Posted by: Diogenes

Our campus has 2 services tonight for Good Friday, 3 services tomorrow for Easter and 6 on Easter. We are right here in the Bible Belt, of course, and where you go to Church is still the 2nd question asked when you meet someone new around here.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

36 There is a direct correlation between how religious people are and how many kids they have.

If the left wasn't able to corrupt kids in public schools they would disappear in a generation

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

37 33m
BREAKING: According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.

Posted by: beckster at April 03, 2026 02:44 PM (kX27y)

=======

"NO!!!! We wanted blood!"
-The patriotic opposition of the American Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (hAotW)

38 Can someone explain the French connection (heh)? I didn't see it or don't understand it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (aZm/F)

He usually makes political attacks on the motes in other people's eyes while ignoring the beams in his own eyes.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (8avO+)

39 Do they serve food on Eastet?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (52ERr)

40 It's almost as if people are tired of post modern, leftist garbage they have been fed for too many years, and seen fail.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (0U5gm)

41 There's been repeated stories the last few weeks about a Catholic parish in NYC's Greenwich Village (St. Joseph's, I think?) that is so heavily attended, and mainly by young people, the lines are out the door every Sunday.

May this be the start of something beautiful.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (lHPJf)

42 32 I hadn't been to church since I was 16 years old. Last week, I attended the weekly Worship on the Water held in the world famous FloraBama Lounge. It was a unique experience attending a church service held in a bar.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ha! The girl that does my hair goes to this on occasion! I have never been.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (Wmg4n)

43 36 There is a direct correlation between how religious people are and how many kids they have.

If the left wasn't able to corrupt kids in public schools they would disappear in a generation

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

=========

I think the actual measurement is "weekly attendance".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (hAotW)

44 There is a direct correlation between how religious people are and how many kids they have.

If the left wasn't able to corrupt kids in public schools they would disappear in a generation
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (sKqQm)

They can corrupt people in 'religious' schools too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (8avO+)

45
He usually makes political attacks on the motes in other people's eyes while ignoring the beams in his own eyes.


I told the guy he was supposed to keep his eyes closed while I finished and...did he listen? NO

Posted by: One of the youth David French was minisering to at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (sKqQm)

46 "Do they serve food on Eastet?
Posted by: Boss Moss"


Ummm...eggs?

And rabbits?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (aTgV0)

47 I hadn't been to church since I was 16 years old. Last week, I attended the weekly Worship on the Water held in the world famous FloraBama Lounge. It was a unique experience attending a church service held in a bar.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ha! The girl that does my hair goes to this on occasion! I have never been.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (Wmg4n)

Well they have a big counter for serving the host and wine, at least.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (8avO+)

48 Converts usually go to the most conservative section of a religion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (bss/y)

49 beckster I really hope that is true and final

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (Ia/+0)

50 50,000 pounds sterling.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (52ERr)

51 Our 6 year old wants to go to church. My partner and I are atheist, and aren't sure where this curiosity has come from. Should we humor him and take him somewhere? If so, which church?

I would consider taking my kids to a Unitarian church, but luckily they aren’t interested. Your child is 6, not able to determine when adults are not telling the truth, and they obviously aren’t telling the truth. This can be confusing for kids, imho. Better to leave their minds untainted until they have some level of bullshit detector and aren’t so trusting.

This. As someone who was queer and went to an evangelicals church, I tried unaliving myself the first time at 11 years old. Sometimes you need to protect your kids from certain kinds of harmful exposure. This is one of those times.

Okay so I looked up a Unitarian Church in my area and there's one close by. I read through the whole website and watched last week's sermon. I really liked what I heard. I grew up in a religious household but it never stuck, too much curiosity. I think this will be a really good start for us!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

52 Our campus has 2 services tonight for Good Friday, 3 services tomorrow for Easter and 6 on Easter. We are right here in the Bible Belt, of course, and where you go to Church is still the 2nd question asked when you meet someone new around here.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

Reasonably Adequate Wednesday takes a hit as usual.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (8avO+)

53 Here in New England (southeaster NH specifically) -- attendance at Mass does seem to be increasing. Young families are coming to Mass now. 3 years ago you wouldn't ever hear a baby cry. Now there are several.

I think a lot also has to do with the pastor/priest, as well.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (N39Ws)

54 God knows Catholics have a lot of kids.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

55 51 I would consider taking my kids to a Unitarian church, but luckily they aren’t interested. Your child is 6, not able to determine when adults are not telling the truth, and they obviously aren’t telling the truth. This can be confusing for kids, imho. Better to leave their minds untainted until they have some level of bullshit detector and aren’t so trusting.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

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Can kids understand the truth or not when adults tell them that boys shouldn't have dicks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (hAotW)

56 Our 6 year old wants to go to church. My partner and I are atheist, and aren't sure where this curiosity has come from. Should we humor him and take him somewhere? If so, which church?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)
____________

So ... homo?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

57 51 Okay so I looked up a Unitarian Church in my area and there's one close by. I read through the whole website and watched last week's sermon. I really liked what I heard. I grew up in a religious household but it never stuck, too much curiosity. I think this will be a really good start for us!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

======

"Do whatever you want. Some kind of greater thing out there will be okay with it."

"So...I don't have to come here and give you money, huh? Alright."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (hAotW)

58 Remember:
David French's wife is just as nasty, duplicitous and vile as he is.

In 2024, she was part of a group, with millions in funding, doing "training" and outreach to evangelical churches.

It was, on the surface, nonpolitical.

But the message they were pushing, with free training, pamphlets, posterboards, and talking points, was "good Christians must support--nay, demand!--a total, federal, nationwide ban on abortion."

With heavy implication that, if a candidate (cough, cough, Trump) refused to call for a total, federal, nationwide ban on abortion, good Christians must not--can not, lest they damn their eternal soul--vote for that candidate.

Even if it means the most radical, pro-abortion candidate in history would win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (HXT0k)

59 NeverForget the initial objection to Trump from NeverTrump was that Trump could not be a trusted steward of conservatism and that NeverTrump were too conservatively conservative to trust that he wouldn't govern like a liberal. They then transmogrified it into some general objection of his "character".

How they got away with this mystifies me but then deception is the Left's nature.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (mWRBW)

60 Can someone explain the French connection (heh)? I didn't see it or don't understand it.

French's go-to move is claiming that only he can interpret Christianity and it's whatever he says it is. Most famously, that drag queen story hour is "a blessing".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (2ocoG)

61 54 God knows Catholics have a lot of kids.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

It's like pull out game is weak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:56 PM (bss/y)

62 The single young men at church are like parking spaces.
The good ones are either taken or handicapped.

Posted by: Hey-oog! at April 03, 2026 02:56 PM (2Ez/1)

63 My church will have three services on Easter day, and two on Saturday. And it is a large congregation on any Sunday. It is great to see it, now to sustain it.


Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (2WIwB)
==
We were full last night. I expect a decent crowd today for Good Friday.

Then the Vigil Saturday night - and we will start late in keeping with sundown. Then three services Sunday morning. Our attendance has been on a steady climb for a few years, both Spanish speakers and English speakers. We are running out of space. Which is a good thing.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:56 PM (GZYu7)

64 God knows Catholics have a lot of kids.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

We have to fill up those Bingo halls somehow. Oh, and subvert the Biden Administration.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:57 PM (8avO+)

65 Religion is surging because these younger generations want boundaries and values and hope. They are no doubt relativity, hedonism and cynicism are just not doing it for them,

They need to hear the good news: God loves them.

Try saying that in public or on social media and see the response.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 02:58 PM (4KUe5)

66 Your child is 6, not able to determine when adults are not telling the truth, and they obviously aren’t telling the truth. This can be confusing for kids, imho. Better to leave their minds untainted until they have some level of bullshit detector and aren’t so trusting.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)
_________

Leftists: "We shouldn't expose young kids to the church because they won't be able to recognize all the dangerous bullshit the church tells them!"

Also Leftists: "Hey little kids, don't you know that boys can menstruate and girls can have dicks?"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

67 "It's like pull out game is weak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD "
************
What's this pull out of which you speak?

Posted by: Cosda at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (JcfF0)

68 The economy must be working somewhere.

Side Scrollers just got $12k in donations getting people to donate towards their choice for best console. Wii beat N64 (though about half of those donations were spiteful PS2 supporters from earlier in the bracket).

Posted by: Methos at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (vSvIl)

69 61 54 God knows Catholics have a lot of kids.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (aTgV0)

It's like pull out game is weak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:56 PM (bss/y)

What do you call a couple that practices natural family planning?

Parents.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (N39Ws)

70 David French is unbelievable.
He does everything the denigrate Christians, Evangelicals in particular, then takes credit for more people seeking out religion?!?!

Wow.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (4KUe5)

71 We're expecting an overflow section at the first service on Sunday this week.

I'm part of the tech team and we'll also be livestreaming the first service for those who can't attend in person.

I expect a noticeable uptick in livestream traffic.

My pastor knocked last week's message out of the park. He's going to have to find a way to make his Easter message even better.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (ESVrU)

72 By the way, One Hour Sober. If you decide you want to try church 40 minutes over in Alabama, let me know.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 03:00 PM (Wmg4n)

73 You know, I'm standing right here.

Posted by: James Talarico, the new Religious Hotness at April 03, 2026 03:00 PM (skR0U)

74 What of the Catholic Method?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 03:00 PM (52ERr)

75 67 "It's like pull out game is weak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD "
************
What's this pull out of which you speak?
Posted by: Cosda at April 03, 2026 02:59 PM (JcfF0)

There are definitely some large families in my Catholic parish. Obviously the husband can't pull out of a driveway. Don't even own a pull out couch.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2026 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

76 51 I would consider taking my kids to a Unitarian church, but luckily they aren’t interested. Your child is 6, not able to determine when adults are not telling the truth, and they obviously aren’t telling the truth. This can be confusing for kids, imho. Better to leave their minds untainted until they have some level of bullshit detector and aren’t so trusting.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

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Can kids understand the truth or not when adults tell them that boys shouldn't have dicks?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:54 PM (hAotW)
==
Unitarians don't believe anything, so you won't find truth there. You will find exploration of whatever anyone wants to explore. It has its lane, and actually is one of the religions not seeing declines, but it's hard to call them a religion. It's more like a social society. But truth? Ha!

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 03:01 PM (GZYu7)

77 Try saying that in public or on social media and see the response.
Posted by: Lizzy at April

You can on X! It’s a definite start.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 03:01 PM (Wmg4n)

78
I'm eating lunch and I just want you to know that...

Miss Vickie's Sea Salt Potato Chips are the Best!

They are the best plain potato chip evah.

So, buy some and see.

That's all. Continue with your David Frenching.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

79 73 You know, I'm standing right here.

Posted by: James Talarico, the new Religious Hotness at April 03, 2026 03:00 PM (skR0U)

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Look at Mr. "I believe explicitly heretical things and espouse them but I am more Christian than thou because I'm Progressive" over here.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:01 PM (hAotW)

80 "Obviously the husband can't pull out of a driveway. Don't even own a pull out couch."
**********
Don't blame it all on the dude. Just try pulling out of a Irish, Italian, or Latino woman.

Posted by: Cosda at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (JcfF0)

81 Mother of Sorrows ... Diocese of Greensburg, ... All three parking lots were packed,.... Nearby Dick's Diner


Walked uphill to grade school there.

Posted by: DaveA at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (FhXTo)

82 65 Religion is surging because these younger generations want boundaries and values and hope. They are no doubt relativity, hedonism and cynicism are just not doing it for them,

They need to hear the good news: God loves them.

Try saying that in public or on social media and see the response.
Posted by: Lizzy

The reactions to that can be all over the place. This time was just kinda funny: https://tinyurl.com/3n2zz9p4

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (JCZqz)

83 David French is unbelievable.
He does everything the denigrate Christians, Evangelicals in particular, then takes credit for more people seeking out religion?!?!


To clarify, French has not taken credit for this, as far as I know. That's just Ace riffing, I believe. But it's very much in French's wheelhouse.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (2ocoG)

84
I would consider taking my kids to a Unitarian church, but luckily they aren’t interested. Your child is 6, not able to determine when adults are not telling the truth, and they obviously aren’t telling the truth. This can be confusing for kids, imho. Better to leave their minds untainted until they have some level of bullshit detector and aren’t so trusting.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (JCZqz)

But teachers and transitioners, totally trusting and unconfusing for a 6 year old, eh redditor?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (qivay)

85 " What of the Catholic Method?
Posted by: Boss Moss"


Doggy style. Same as in town.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:04 PM (aTgV0)

86 Mother of Sorrows ... Diocese of Greensburg, ... All three parking lots were packed,.... Nearby Dick's Diner


Walked uphill to grade school there.
Posted by: DaveA at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (FhXTo)

Both ways, too. A Miracle!

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:04 PM (8avO+)

87 84 But teachers and transitioners, totally trusting and unconfusing for a 6 year old, eh redditor?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (qivay)

=======

Teachers are trained and credentialed, h8ter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (hAotW)

88 But teachers and transitioners, totally trusting and unconfusing for a 6 year old, eh redditor?
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 03, 2026 03:03 PM (qivay)

Shoulda written "trustworthy", dammit.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (qivay)

89 Unitarians don't believe anything, so you won't find truth there.

A Unitarian church I pass pretty regularly has had a big BLM banner up since 2020. It's in pretty bad shape now, LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (2ocoG)

90 85 " What of the Catholic Method?
Posted by: Boss Moss"

Doggy style. Same as in town.
Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:04 PM (aTgV0)


Throw a burning log at the ho!

Posted by: St. Thomas Aquinas at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (skR0U)

91 Some of these zoomers are hitting up the local Mass so they can go be Tradcaths online and refight the 30 Years War with everyone else. Sort of like the Orthobros from the last few years.

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (jGJov)

92 James Talarico thinks he can win Christian voters by saying things like God is no - binary or some such. Not even worth arguing a man who piously injects the LGBTQ agenda, via their very specific language, into the Bible.

Duuuude, you lost your argument in the opening of Genesis. Don’t queer our beliefs and values, lolgf.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (4KUe5)

93 I pray for the United Methodist Church higher-ups to stop chasing popularity and "being nice" and return to its Weslyan roots.

Posted by: RandomDave at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (aJQbY)

94
Even if it means the most radical, pro-abortion candidate in history would win.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:55 PM (HXT0k)

Something that did not get any traction in our evangelical church, thank goodness.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (Wmg4n)

95 Can confirm. One of my youngens is into church. I’m not religious my wife is not either. Whatever. Let the kid try out things.

Society has been pushing religion away for decades, and now non-religion is the norm. Which inevitably leads to youth rebellion against what’s normal.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:06 PM (Vb3xW)

96 That St. Thomas Aquinas knew some shit!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:06 PM (aTgV0)

97 Red Sox had their Home Opener today. Mayor Wu and Governor Healey were roundly booed. Warms the heart.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 03, 2026 03:06 PM (vV6n9)

98 Some of these zoomers are hitting up the local Mass so they can go be Tradcaths online and refight the 30 Years War with everyone else. Sort of like the Orthobros from the last few years.
Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (jGJov)

Well pretty soon central Europe might need some scouring out.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

99 92 James Talarico thinks he can win Christian voters by saying things like God is no - binary or some such. Not even worth arguing a man who piously injects the LGBTQ agenda, via their very specific language, into the Bible.

Duuuude, you lost your argument in the opening of Genesis. Don’t queer our beliefs and values, lolgf.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (4KUe5)

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He's a weird looking twink with so many awful soundbites (and probably gay) that Paxton or Cornyn can use against him in GOP dominated Texas that he's probably going to lose worse than a no-name Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:07 PM (hAotW)

100 96 That St. Thomas Aquinas knew some shit!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:06 PM (aTgV0)

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False.

People didn't seriously think about religious questions until that blue haired chick took her first religious studies class at Oberlin last August.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:08 PM (hAotW)

101 So religiosity is measured by church attendance?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 03, 2026 03:08 PM (2Ez/1)

102 74 What of the Catholic Method?
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I think they call it flogging the bishop.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 03:08 PM (n17eQ)

103 My seester tried religion when we were teenagers.

While we are both still very young she's been at it for a looooong time.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:08 PM (aTgV0)

104 He's a weird looking twink with so many awful soundbites (and probably gay) that Paxton or Cornyn can use against him in GOP dominated Texas that he's probably going to lose worse than a no-name Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:07 PM (hAotW)

Had no idea the Dems in Texas could find a worse candidate than Beto the reincarnated JFK. They rose to the challenge though. Did not have Gnostic Heresy on my Bingo Card.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:09 PM (8avO+)

105 "Obviously the husband can't pull out of a driveway. Don't even own a pull out couch."

Hurr-durr, don't talk to JD Vance about pulling out of couches!!! Kamala could have won if she unleashed Walz on the couch-fucker attack!!!

Posted by: Kyle Kulinski at April 03, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

106 I'm really heartened seeing this. It is probably our last hope in fighting off the insurgence of godless, satanic communism.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (2bnFA)

107
ICYMI from tech thread. Worth a read.

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

>>>If you’re running production workloads on Azure or relying on it for mission-critical systems, this story matters more than you think.

Pt. 1 of 4

https://tinyurl.com/hkzczzh6

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)

108 47 I hadn't been to church since I was 16 years old. Last week, I attended the weekly Worship on the Water held in the world famous FloraBama Lounge. It was a unique experience attending a church service held in a bar.
Posted by: one hour sober

Ha! The girl that does my hair goes to this on occasion! I have never been.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 02:51 PM (Wmg4n)

You should go if you get a chance. The band is not bad and the pastor seems like a really good guy.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (Y1sOo)

109 Did not have Gnostic Heresy on my Bingo Card.

There are strong gnostic elements in a lot of leftwing thought.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (sKqQm)

110 @nicksortor 19m
🚨 BREAKING: A SECOND US Air Force combat plane, an A-10 Warthog, has GONE DOWN in the Persian Gulf region today
Luckily, the pilot is SAFE after being rescued
This happened around the same time an F-15 went down over Iran, per NYT
Details are very scant."

Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (vbXSk)

111 104 Had no idea the Dems in Texas could find a worse candidate than Beto the reincarnated JFK. They rose to the challenge though. Did not have Gnostic Heresy on my Bingo Card.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:09 PM (8avO+)

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Beto got weirdly close, but the state has lurched to the right recently. Biden opening the border turned the border counties from hard blue to soft red. Plus, the inbound immigration seems to have been majority conservative.

Republicans should get excited by a boring Republican running for Senate against Warren in Massachusetts to even things out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (hAotW)

112 My seester tried religion when we were teenagers.

While we are both still very young she's been at it for a looooong time.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:08 PM (aTgV0)

Did it not take? Do you have her number?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)

113 "Obviously the husband can't pull out of a driveway. Don't even own a pull out couch."

Hurr-durr, don't talk to JD Vance about pulling out of couches!!! Kamala could have won if she unleashed Walz on the couch-fucker attack!!!
Posted by: Kyle Kulinski at April 03, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

The funniest thing about that dude is how much his wife is done with his crap on the podcast they do.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (8avO+)

114 He's a weird looking twink with so many awful soundbites (and probably gay) that Paxton or Cornyn can use against him in GOP dominated Texas that he's probably going to lose worse than a no-name Democrat.
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He recently said something about little boys with their ting ting removed makes him happy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

115 James Talarico thinks he can win Christian voters by saying things like God is no - binary or some such. Not even worth arguing a man who piously injects the LGBTQ agenda, via their very specific language, into the Bible.

Duuuude, you lost your argument in the opening of Genesis. Don’t queer our beliefs and values, lolgf.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 03:05 PM (4KUe5)

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He's a weird looking twink with so many awful soundbites (and probably gay) that Paxton or Cornyn can use against him in GOP dominated Texas that he's probably going to lose worse than a no-name Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:07 PM (hAotW)
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I'm waiting for the truly awful oppo on this weirdo to drop. I assume there's plenty out there and it's weird and creepy AF.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

116 >>>"What we're witnessing right now is an answer to many years of prayers,"

I don't think it's just that. I think people are noticing the now overt Satanic influence in the world that is ascendant. This is a natural defense mechanism from pure evil.

Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (q177U)

117 Hey at least the couch that Vance supposedly abused was of age, right Mr Walz?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)

118 114 He recently said something about little boys with their ting ting removed makes him happy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

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He loves trans-kids.

Dude is fucking weird and probably fucked a trans kid at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (hAotW)

119 Our parish has exploded with young families. Mrs Chairborne gets annoyed occasionally because she can't hear the sermon for the screeching infants but to me they are a sign of the health of the Church and its growing population of young families. God bless them all.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 03:12 PM (2bnFA)

120 115 I'm waiting for the truly awful oppo on this weirdo to drop. I assume there's plenty out there and it's weird and creepy AF.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (iFTx/)

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Yeah, it's probably awful.

He was about to drop out of politics like 3 years ago, and then he went crazy leftist and started gaining traction with the craziest of leftist AWFLs in Austin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:12 PM (hAotW)

121 Nancy French is a white washed tomb filled with other men's bones.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at April 03, 2026 03:12 PM (4NO2D)

122 I had a bigtime lefty boss at one company. Brought politics into everything, and complained about the dangerous Christian right wing taking over all the time. But he was my boss so what could I do? Keep my head down and work. And he would talk constantly about being a bible study teacher at his church and all his involvement. Seemed weird.

Finally found out it was a unitarian church. Ah, ok.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

123 Society has been pushing religion away for decades, and now non-religion is the norm. Which inevitably leads to youth rebellion against what’s normal.

Posted by: Heroq
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That's it. Well done. Its all just a fad like bellbottoms or poprocks.

Posted by: Uncle screwtape at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (Ha2dl)

124 121 Nancy French is a white washed tomb filled with other men's bones.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at April 03, 2026 03:12 PM (4NO2D)

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And no longer Mrs. French.

David divorced her to marry some younger woman. Just like Jesus would.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (hAotW)

125 "Did it not take? Do you have her number?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM (dK+Kv)"

Oh it took. She plays Ukelele in the Church ...ummm Ukelele band.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (aTgV0)

126 If you convert to Islam, you are retarded. I'm looking at you, Charles, you absolute loser. If you weren't the child of the Queen, you'd be getting welfare and living in a council house.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (aZm/F)

127 He recently said something about little boys with their ting ting removed makes him happy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

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He loves trans-kids.

Dude is fucking weird and probably fucked a trans kid at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (hAotW)
______

"Chill out bro, shit happens!"

-- Dude in The Crying Game

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

128 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (Vb3xW)

129 Our parish has exploded with young families. Mrs Chairborne gets annoyed occasionally because she can't hear the sermon for the screeching infants but to me they are a sign of the health of the Church and its growing population of young families. God bless them all.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 03:12 PM (2bnFA)

She needs to hone that disapproving stare to teach the kiddos that the Wrath of a church lady is to be feared as is traditional.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

130 126 If you convert to Islam, you are retarded. I'm looking at you, Charles, you absolute loser. If you weren't the child of the Queen, you'd be getting welfare and living in a council house.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (aZm/F)

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How is his existence...not that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (hAotW)

131 This happened around the same time an F-15 went down over Iran, per NYT Details are very scant."

****************************

Meanwhile ZeroHedge and Discord TV about strokes out from.... stroking it out every time theres some shred of good news for Iran

Every heinous act ever committed by Iran is ok because Jews

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (REq0p)

132 Sorry bros.

I told my seester to stay away from Morans.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (aTgV0)

133 >>>"What we're witnessing right now is an answer to many years of prayers,"

I don't think it's just that. I think people are noticing the now overt Satanic influence in the world that is ascendant. This is a natural defense mechanism from pure evil.
Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (q177U)


There will be a great revival and return to the church in the latter days. I don't know if these are those days and I'm not worried about that. But it is great to see none the less.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (2WIwB)

134 128 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (Vb3xW)

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And in that time, the state veered hard right.

But next time, all those people just won't vote or something.

Come the fuck on. Blexas can be the fantasy of the left to waste money, but we are years past it being a concern on the right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (hAotW)

135 >>> In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Gov. Greg "I'm totally conservative" Abbot says the answer to that is.... more Indians

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (jGJov)

136 135 Gov. Greg "I'm totally conservative" Abbot says the answer to that is.... more Indians

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (jGJov)

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There are roughly 2.5 million more Republicans in Texas than Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (hAotW)

137 That's it. Well done. Its all just a fad like bellbottoms or poprocks.
Posted by: Uncle screwtape at April 03, 2026 03:13 PM (Ha2dl)

I didn’t say it’s a fad. I said young people rebel against the status quo. That rebellion can be long or short term.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (Vb3xW)

138 In 1993, Prince Charles said this:

"Islam is part of our past and present. It created a modern Europe. Islam teaches us all the lessons that Christianity has lost."

WTAF?

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (aZm/F)

139 People don't quit jobs as much as they quit bosses.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (2Ez/1)

140 If you convert to Islam, you are retarded

*******************

My favorite are feminists who convert to Islam and then complain about how anti-women it is and how they'll be the ones to bring Islam to the 21st century

Good luck with that

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (REq0p)

141 @nicksortor 19m
🚨 BREAKING: A SECOND US Air Force combat plane, an A-10 Warthog, has GONE DOWN in the Persian Gulf region today
Luckily, the pilot is SAFE after being rescued
This happened around the same time an F-15 went down over Iran, per NYT
Details are very scant."
Posted by: illiniwek at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM


I assume any details other than whether the crews are safe to be lies. No need to tell anyone which enemy AA weapons systems worked successfully, if in fact they did and it wasn't just mechanical failure. Everything will come out when the war is over.

Posted by: toby928(c) reminds you at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (4NO2D)

142 >>>"What we're witnessing right now is an answer to many years of prayers,"

I don't think it's just that. I think people are noticing the now overt Satanic influence in the world that is ascendant. This is a natural defense mechanism from pure evil.
Posted by: Max Power at April 03, 2026 03:11 PM (q177U)


There will be a great revival and return to the church in the latter days. I don't know if these are those days and I'm not worried about that. But it is great to see none the less.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (2WIwB)

Kids like to revolt from their parents. What you gonna do when your parents do drugs, crazed left wing politics, and have to rules to rebel against?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (8avO+)

143 He's a weird looking twink with so many awful soundbites (and probably gay) that Paxton or Cornyn can use against him in GOP dominated Texas that he's probably going to lose worse than a no-name Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:07 PM (hAotW)



The first thought that came to me on seeing him was that I'm seeing a serpent. A smooth talking serpent. He reminds me of a line from Tolkien where Frodo first meets Strider and says that he looked foul but felt fair. Talarico perhaps looks fair (not to me but to others perhaps) but definitely feels foul.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (2bnFA)

144 142 Kids like to revolt from their parents. What you gonna do when your parents do drugs, crazed left wing politics, and have to rules to rebel against?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (8avO+)

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Watch Steven Crowder and go, "This guy...makes sense..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (hAotW)

145 Gov. Greg "I'm totally conservative" Abbot says the answer to that is.... more Indians
Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (jGJov)

Out: Hispanics are natural conservatives

In: Indians are natural conservatives

Weird how whites are never natural conservatives according to Republicans.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM (Vb3xW)

146
James Talarico thinks he can win Christian voters by saying things like God is no - binary or some such.
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You know what else was in the Bible?

Beware false prophets... they will come to you as trans-sheep.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (mWRBW)

147 >>>There are roughly 2.5 million more Republicans in Texas than Democrats.

Yes I know you are very positive about Texas remaining a conservative stronghold forever. I am much less optimistic given the demographics, and how much they are going to change as the boomers die off. Hope you're right though.

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (jGJov)

148 72 By the way, One Hour Sober. If you decide you want to try church 40 minutes over in Alabama, let me know.

I'll stick with FloraBama for a bit since it's only about a 20 minute drive. If anything changes, I'll let you know. Thanks.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (Y1sOo)

149 147 >>>There are roughly 2.5 million more Republicans in Texas than Democrats.

Yes I know you are very positive about Texas remaining a conservative stronghold forever. I am much less optimistic given the demographics, and how much they are going to change as the boomers die off. Hope you're right though.

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (jGJov)

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I never say forever.

But in the next 8 months? Yeah, it's not a worry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (hAotW)

150 You should go if you get a chance. The band is not bad and the pastor seems like a really good guy.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 03:10 PM

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Odd how often we make spiritual choices based on something that is performance based.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (2Ez/1)

151 Just read all four gospels chapters on the last supper and crucifixion. We are so blessed to have these gospel narratives.



Posted by: Joemarine at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (y171U)

152 Yes I know you are very positive about Texas remaining a conservative stronghold forever. I am much less optimistic given the demographics, and how much they are going to change as the boomers die off. Hope you're right though.
Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (jGJov)

boomers aren't all that conservative, except cranks like me. Hippy dippy.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)

153
Weird how whites are never natural conservatives according to Republicans.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:17 PM

Come to Oregon/Washington/California. The whole west coast is full of whites with white guilt and feel they have to be liberal as a form of atonement.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (IifOV)

154 Yes I know you are very positive about Texas remaining a conservative stronghold forever.

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Nothing is forever but Texas becoming a blue state by 2028 is a bit eeyory.

Although I do wish Abbott would stand up for American workers instead of H1b weenies

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (REq0p)

155 >>>But in the next 8 months? Yeah, it's not a worry.

Oh yeah, agree there. Crenshaw losing was great to see.

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (jGJov)

156 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:14 PM (Vb3xW)

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And in that time, the state veered hard right.

But next time, all those people just won't vote or something.

Come the fuck on. Blexas can be the fantasy of the left to waste money, but we are years past it being a concern on the right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:15 PM (hAotW)
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Cruz won by 2.6%. Still too close for comfort. But if you look at the counties, Beto somehow managed to flip a lot of red counties that Trump won in 2016. I find that very hard to believe that was possible without cheating.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

157 I'm an anti-communist hippy. Always have been.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (4NO2D)

158 SECOND US Air Force combat plane, an A-10 Warthog, has GONE DOWN in the Persian Gulf region today
Luckily, the pilot is SAFE after being rescued

===

This is what we get for "negotiating", should just mercilessly bomb everything so they have no time to regroup and figure out ways to shoot at our planes and move Iraqi militias into the streets of Tehran. so stupid.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (GD0B3)

159 California was red, until it wasn’t. Nothing lasts forever in politics.

Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (Vb3xW)

160 154 Although I do wish Abbott would stand up for American workers instead of H1b weenies

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (REq0p)

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H1-Bs that are being forced to go home to reapply are getting appointments several years in the future. Until they, they stay home.

And the $100,000 fee is being finalized.

H1-B numbers have crashed. Trump is doing everything he can to limit it. It'll take an act of Congress to eliminate it, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (hAotW)

161 Come to Oregon/Washington/California. The whole west coast is full of whites with white guilt and feel they have to be liberal as a form of atonement.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (IifOV)

yeah, but like my liberal sister they will put up fences and take out brooms to beat off the riff raff from their homes. She also didn't let it affect raising her kids.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:22 PM (8avO+)

162 My favorite are feminists who convert to Islam and then complain about how anti-women it is and how they'll be the ones to bring Islam to the 21st century

Good luck with that

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:16 PM (REq0p)



Heh. Then they find out that The Handmaid's Tale was akshully written about THIS religion. Double Heh!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 03:22 PM (2bnFA)

163 I wonder what type of penance David French must do to
remove the sin of watching his wife get tagged by the local gas station murder hobo?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 03:22 PM (abIsI)

164 Islam is part of our past and present. It created a modern Europe. Islam teaches us all the lessons that Christianity has lost.
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Does it now

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:22 PM (mWRBW)

165 I saw a dumb meme.

It was taken from the show/comic Invincible, and specifically with Omni-Man, now labeled as "The Constitution" pummeling Invincible now labeled as "Populist legislation"

Now why is this dumb? Omni-Man is a Superman like character but from an aggressive alien empire. He is sent to earth to conquer the planet. He has a son with an earth woman who is...Invincible...who has a similar power set but wants to save the Earth's independence.

In the story [SPOILERS!] Invincible eventually wins over his father to his way of thinking, now if we take it back to the meme it completely subverts it. The Constitution, or at least judicial interpretations of it, is being controlled by a hostile alien force but given time the Populists will win out and get them to think their way...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:22 PM (sKqQm)

166 If you convert to Islam, you are retarded. I'm looking at you, Charles, you absolute loser. If you weren't the child of the Queen, you'd be getting welfare and living in a council house.

Posted by: Seems Legit

This timeline is getting weirder and weirder. David Wood (the Dizzle himself) just did a video on people leaving Islam, and talked about Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Milo praising Islam and giving permission for otherwise non-religious people to mock those that leave. https://tinyurl.com/5fh53p2d

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (JCZqz)

167 This is what we get for "negotiating", should just mercilessly bomb everything so they have no time to regroup and figure out ways to shoot at our planes and move Iraqi militias into the streets of Tehran. so stupid.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (GD0B3)

who said it was shot down?

you get enough peeps flying about and accidents happen.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (8avO+)

168 California was red, until it wasn’t. Nothing lasts forever in politics.
Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM


Well noted. It was so Republican at the national level that we were being warned about having a perpetually Republican executive branch.

I blame GHWBush and the 'peace dividend'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (4NO2D)

169 Out: Hispanics are natural conservatives

In: Indians are natural conservatives

Weird how whites are never natural conservatives according to Republicans.
Posted by: Heroq

As I understand it, the high-caste Indians are the liberal ones, the low-caste ones conservative.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (77rzZ)

170 >>>There are roughly 2.5 million more Republicans in Texas than Democrats.


And they're going to pick up a few more in the next year.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

171 156 Cruz won by 2.6%. Still too close for comfort. But if you look at the counties, Beto somehow managed to flip a lot of red counties that Trump won in 2016. I find that very hard to believe that was possible without cheating.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

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Texas has also tightened election rules in the last few years.

The Beto thing was an odd outlier, but one where noted bad politician and hated by the local establishment still won.

In the 8 years since, the establishment GOP's opinion in the state has gotten increasingly irrelevant, ground zero being Paxton sailing through his impeachment trial and then Cornyn not able to get a majority in his primary even with a spoiler to siphon votes from Paxton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (hAotW)

172 Stay in your lane, pal.

Posted by: United brotherhood of gas station murder hobos local #407 at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (2Ez/1)

173 159 California was red, until it wasn’t. Nothing lasts forever in politics.
Posted by: Heroq at April 03, 2026 03:21 PM (Vb3xW)

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Lots of mail-in votes there. It's like WA, they will never be red again because of the mail-in voting.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (aZm/F)

174
Well France just shived us in the face. Cut a deal with the Iranians to their ships can get through Strait of Hormuz. Also voted with Russia, and China against us in the UN resolution to open the strait.

Macron is a cocksucker.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (IifOV)

175 Lessons like... "That guy up there on the cross wasn't actually Jesus. And also the real Jesus was a magician granted special powers by Allah and He had nothing to teach except to follow Allah even though He never actually said that."

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (mWRBW)

176 Out: Hispanics are natural conservatives

In: Indians are natural conservatives


I know right leaning Indians.

But pretty much all the high caste Indian women I've know are hardcore leftists.

Now it is comical - they are all also upper class, married to men, and not just wealthy but FROM money.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (sKqQm)

177 I live in Austin... it is very disheartening. But I've read Revelations so I know how it's going to end. I just wish it wasn't starting yet. I am happy to see a revival for now.

Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (VCgbV)

178 175 Lessons like... "That guy up there on the cross wasn't actually Jesus. And also the real Jesus was a magician granted special powers by Allah and He had nothing to teach except to follow Allah even though He never actually said that."

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (mWRBW)

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Also, "We will kill you if you say Jesus is God and not our twisted version of him." Another important lesson from Islam.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (hAotW)

179 My church has had increasing membership for years. It's a protestant, non denominational church. The pastor there is similar to the late John MacArthur in preaching style and I love it. Expository preaching. IMO, the best way to understand God's Word. If you're in NoVA, it's called Immanuel Bible Church.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (sAmhv)

180 James Talarico thinks he can win Christian voters by saying things like God is no - binary or some such.
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He's right, in a way. But, "Male and female, he made them."

That's us. You can't possibly believe that that is inspired and believe that gender is just our idea. We have to take some pointers about God's intention from scripture.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (Fi81e)

181 The Koran acklowedges the Virgin Birth but mysteriously skips over Mary's consent.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (mWRBW)

182 128 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall

But none of them can vote!

Posted by: Brain dead Leftist at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (JCZqz)

183 Cruz won by 2.6%. Still too close for comfort. But if you look at the counties, Beto somehow managed to flip a lot of red counties that Trump won in 2016. I find that very hard to believe that was possible without cheating.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

there is new management in the GOP that isn't run by GOPe traitors. They did OK in 2024.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

184 One thing that's really nice about this trend is what it means.

It means people are ignoring the left.

And that is a fate worse than death to them. Their whole existence is to force other to pay attention to them.

And nothing is a bigger "you're irrelevant to me" than going to church, a traditional church especially.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (HXT0k)

185
Macron is a cocksucker.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (IifOV)


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Literally, that is something Candace got right.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (aZm/F)

186 181 The Koran acklowedges the Virgin Birth but mysteriously skips over Mary's consent.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (mWRBW)

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The Koran also says to strike the throat of the infidel that doesn't believe in Allah or his prophet Muhammad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (hAotW)

187 If you're in NoVA, it's called Immanuel Bible Church.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Does it have a choir?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (77rzZ)

188 181 The Koran acklowedges the Virgin Birth but mysteriously skips over Mary's consent.
Posted by: ...

Who cares about that?

Posted by: Muhammed climbing off of 9 year-old Aisha at April 03, 2026 03:27 PM (JCZqz)

189 Also, "We will kill you if you say Jesus is God and not our twisted version of him." Another important lesson from Islam.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:25 PM (hAotW)

Also "Our God is greater.... (kablam!!!)" Great lesson.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:27 PM (mWRBW)

190 The Koran also says to strike the throat of the infidel that doesn't believe in Allah or his prophet Muhammad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (hAotW)

A preview of the 2032 Democrat Platform

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:28 PM (mWRBW)

191 From X

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Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch
@BabakTaghvaee1
BREAKING: According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.

He ejected, survived the crash, and is now safe in Iraq.

This is good news for the 48th Fighter Wing community at RAF Lakenheath—both crew members of the downed F-15E are now safe.

Also, the crew members of the second HH-60W helicopter involved in the rescue operation of the second crew member, which was shot upon by means of MANPADS, are also safe.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:28 PM (E4rtv)

192 who said it was shot down?

you get enough peeps flying about and accidents happen.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:23 PM (8avO+)

they must have either received new air defense system, or using one that has not been bombed out of existence yet

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (GD0B3)

193 The first Byzantine discussions about Islam see it as yet another heresy.

It is unclear how much of Islam comes from Muhammed and wasn't added later under the Caliphate

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

194 MANPADS
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Where??!!

Posted by: David French at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (mWRBW)

195 "I'm an anti-communist hippy. Always have been.
Posted by: toby928(c)"

So you're a Buddhist?

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (aTgV0)

196 > This is good news for the 48th Fighter Wing community at RAF Lakenheath—both crew members of the downed F-15E are now safe.

Also, the crew members of the second HH-60W helicopter involved in the rescue operation of the second crew member, which was shot upon by means of MANPADS, are also safe.

Outstanding news.

Thanks!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (IG3/x)

197 Lessons like... "That guy up there on the cross wasn't actually Jesus. And also the real Jesus was a magician granted special powers by Allah and He had nothing to teach except to follow Allah even though He never actually said that."
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:24 PM (mWRBW)
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One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

But, again, they think a capricious and willful Allah cannot be questioned. Islam, literally, invokes slavery. You're nobody to look down on God's prophet (Jesus) even if he did trick some guy to die in his place.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)

198 174 Well France just shived us in the face. Cut a deal with the Iranians to their ships can get through Strait of Hormuz. Also voted with Russia, and China against us in the UN resolution to open the strait.

Macron is a cocksucker.
Posted by: Frank Barone

I wonder how many times his 'wife' punched him in the face to agree to this deal.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (abIsI)

199 To the Commie-Crats.............

"ONLY GOD HAS THE RIGHT TO PLAY GOD" and not your Leninist and Marxist Policies !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (/Uzmo)

200 H1-B numbers have crashed. Trump is doing everything he can to limit it. It'll take an act of Congress to eliminate it, though.

**********************

My company went on a hiring spree of foreign turdbags by offshoring the jobs to bypass H1B restrictions, would explain why domestic jobs while foreign jobs continue to rise, theyre just finding new ways to game the system

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (REq0p)

201 >>> According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.


CNN must be devastated

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (jGJov)

202 Aren't MANPADS the things that Tim Walz wanted to put in the schools' men's rooms?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

203 Also, the crew members of the second HH-60W helicopter involved in the rescue operation of the second crew member, which was shot upon by means of MANPADS, are also safe.
Posted by: whig

If they were able to threaten helicopters with their shooting, I should invite them over to MY man pad!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (JCZqz)

204 > It is unclear how much of Islam comes from Muhammed and wasn't added later under the Caliphate
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

Wasn't Muhammed (piss be upon him) illiterate, so we basically have only second- or third-hand reports of what the crazy motherfucker actually said?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (IG3/x)

205 Byzantine?

Byzantine!?!?!?!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (aTgV0)

206 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: Heroq


Texans thought Cruz was not conservative enough. In the intervening years, the state has moved massively to the right.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (0U5gm)

207 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

Which is an odd behavior for a religious leader no?

Of course Muhammed was a brigand, a child rapist, and a genocidal killer according to Islam - I guess tricking one poor shlub to die for you is a much lesser crime...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)

208 206
Texans thought Cruz was not conservative enough. In the intervening years, the state has moved massively to the right.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 03:30 PM (0U5gm)

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False.

Every import since then is a hardcore Marxist who have just been lying in wait until the prime opportunity to vote.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:31 PM (hAotW)

209 False.

Every import since then is a hardcore Marxist who have just been lying in wait until the prime opportunity to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:31 PM (hAotW)

Not Elon Musk

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:32 PM (8avO+)

210 I have lately, now that I am well into my 29th year, realized something about myself. I don't know if it's right or wrong and am certainly not trying to convert anyone but I realized that as to religion, I am not trying to achieve Heaven or avoid Hell. My primary purpose is to bring peace into my own life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (ndZc7)

211 We need to be out of NATO. EFF them, they are worthless.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (aZm/F)

212 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Paul at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (GdNKe)

213 209 False.

Every import since then is a hardcore Marxist who have just been lying in wait until the prime opportunity to vote.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:31 PM (hAotW)

Not Elon Musk

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:32 PM (8avO+)

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He only takes federal government money to build his rockets and loves government handouts. His efforts on X are just cover so that the people of Texas don't lynch him.

He's as much a Marxist as Lenin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (hAotW)

214 Of course young people are going to mosque. What else are they going to do?

Posted by: Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Muslim Animal Lover and Pederast at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (jRlwL)

215 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

Which is an odd behavior for a religious leader no?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:31 PM (sKqQm)
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You're a slave to Allah, and you just have to take what your superiors give out!

When I lived in the Detroit area, one of my best friends outside a church was a disbelieving Iranian, he flat out told me that Allah is as capricious as he wants to be. And that's just that.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (Fi81e)

216 ...unaliving myself...

*********

Unalving be hard, Yo!

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (qgHp7)

217 193 The first Byzantine discussions about Islam see it as yet another heresy.

It is unclear how much of Islam comes from Muhammed and wasn't added later under the Caliphate
Posted by: 18-1

But the Quran is timeless, perfect, and unchanging! It says so!

Posted by: Retards at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz)

218 The first Byzantine discussions about Islam see it as yet another heresy.

It is unclear how much of Islam comes from Muhammed and wasn't added later under the Caliphate
Posted by: 18-1

But the Quran is timeless, perfect, and unchanging! It says so!
Posted by: Retards at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (JCZqz)

which revision added that?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (8avO+)

219 Dear lord...

Epstein is still waiting to explode?

You people are fucking retarded. Millions of pages released. Fuck off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (hAotW)

220 37 33m
BREAKING: According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.

I pray it is true because the last thing we need is for "Iranian Ragheads" Video of Torturing the US Aviator like they did in 1979.

They hit an F-15 (Non-Stealth) A/C proves that even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while ....

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (/Uzmo)

221 God is no binary is nudging into the Cultural Marxist theory for Transgender

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)

222 214 Of course young people are going to mosque. What else are they going to do? They can't afford the jizya and don't want us to murder them.
Posted by: Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Posted by: Real Muslims at April 03, 2026 03:35 PM (JCZqz)

223 219 Dear lord...

Epstein is still waiting to explode?

You people are fucking retarded. Millions of pages released. Fuck off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (hAotW)

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Are they releasing the unredacted files? And I think there are thousands of files yet to be released.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:36 PM (aZm/F)

224 Hail and Praise Schlürpo.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:36 PM (E6xSb)

225 But to go with that Islam is a shame culture. You're not "guilty" until somebody catches you. Nobody has the authority to challenge Allah, so Allah can literally do whatever the hell he wants (and good on him for that, some of them think--because it's about power.)

Christianity is about refining your behavior to be right with God, (regardless of unmerited grace and all that). To do less harm, to do more healing, more serving.

Jesus is (I think) singular in presenting the model of "servant leadership". Islam is still in the pre-Christian power mode.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

226 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

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Like in The Sting?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 03:37 PM (ndZc7)

227 What a beautiful post to read, Ace.

I would say this even if I were not a new convert to the Roman Catholic church. After a lifetime & generations of Presbyterians (conservative).

I will never, ever, believe THIS is the only church. It was my choice & the right path for growth in my faith. One I needed and many reasons unspoken (well, one is the non-traditional services and praise music of many Protestant churches and not how I was raised. Nothing wrong with it for others, however). I am no pious saint nor hypocrite.

Thanks be to God more young people are turning to Christ with standing room only! I see this in our parish. Lots of babies, including our baby granddaughter who has gone to Mass since she was 2wks old. Many fathers holding these lovely babies and it brings joy to me.

God bless you all this Easter weekend. He died without sin for us all to have eternal life & sins forgiven. And with this blessing, we have peace and joy in this life on earth. It's the only way for this in my belief. I have never known a moment since toddlerhood without faith.

Yeah, I crack jokes like a crazy buffoon, but am trying not to cuss as much!

Love to all, and to you Ace for posting this.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 03, 2026 03:37 PM (WONhk)

228 Every question in Islam gets answered with "because Allah said so". I'm not even kidding. That is the answer every time. Sometimes you have to drill past the initial response but that's the boiled down version.

And the ONLY thing that tells you that Allah is a benevolent god of "peace" is literally they just say it when they refer to him. I'm not kidding on that either. Nothing actually demonstrates it. The Koran just says it. He's most benevolent and loving. And you have to believe it. Why? Because Allah said so.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:37 PM (mWRBW)

229 Odd how often we make spiritual choices based on something that is performance based.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

In the alternative, you make them where you feel comfortable and stay for the change you feel in your spirit. Mr. Sober hasn’t gone to Church since he was 16, he found a Church home where he is learning about scripture and feeling the love of God in an environment that resonates with him. That is something to celebrate, in my eyes.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 03:38 PM (pZEOD)

230 223 Are they releasing the unredacted files? And I think there are thousands of files yet to be released.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:36 PM (aZm/F)

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All I know is that Steve Bannon tried for years to rehabilitate Epstein's image, and no one seems to give a fuck about him.

Also that everyone except literal crazy people who no one at the time believed because they were obviously crazy (you know, inventing boats and houses that Epstein never owned) say that Trump didn't like Epstein and helped the police to catch him.

Also, a bunch of no-name Democrat apparaticks keep resigning because of their affiliations with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:38 PM (hAotW)

231 211 We need to be out of NATO. EFF them, they are worthless.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (aZm/F)

Now that Pam Bondi is gone, NATO will get the Two Minutes Hate.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:38 PM (E6xSb)

232 I first tried Unilevering myself with a bar of Dove soap when I was 11.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:38 PM (qgHp7)

233 Good. This is good. This could make an actual difference for the future, unlike any of this fake and gay political garbage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 03:38 PM (BI5O2)

234 Islam is still in the pre-Christian power mode.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:37 PM (Fi81e)

You know who else is still in the pre-Christian power mode?

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (mWRBW)

235 Epstein is still waiting to explode?

You people are fucking retarded. Millions of pages released. Fuck off.


The page where the walls are closing in on Trump hasn't been released yet. But it definitely exists. Just ask any Democrat.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)

236 Jesus is (I think) singular in presenting the model of "servant leadership". Islam is still in the pre-Christian power mode.

The most charitable take on Islam is that Muhammed took his poor understanding of Judaism and used it to make Arabic paganism into a monotheistic religion.

But...even that is too positive. Muhammed after inventing his religion was still telling people it was ok to worship Arabic pagan gods.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

237 God is no binary is nudging into the Cultural Marxist theory for Transgender

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (Ia/+0)
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God Incarnated had a sex. The Son of Man, the Son of God. The other two persons don't.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (Fi81e)

238 They hit an F-15 (Non-Stealth) A/C proves that even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while ....
Posted by: Jackson K.

I think it proves the hate blinded nuts hit a plane once in a while.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (ndZc7)

239 1 America's Pastor, David French, lol
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (HXT0k)
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America's Youth Pastor, David French. Shudder.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (0bjKf)

240 235 The page where the walls are closing in on Trump hasn't been released yet. But it definitely exists. Just ask any Democrat.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (2ocoG)

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It obviously exists.

Because if it didn't exist, then their worldview would collapse.

And their worldview is truth.

And truth can't be wrong, no matter the facts.

So, the page exists, and the only reason it hasn't been released is a conspiracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:39 PM (hAotW)

241 All hail Zeppo!

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (aTgV0)

242 206 Lest everyone forget Beto came within 2% of winning in 2018. About 200k votes. In those 8 years there have been hundreds of thousands H1Bs, Muslims, illegals and Californians imported into the state, to make up the shortfall.

Posted by: Heroq

And yet.

Quit being a defeatist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (E6xSb)

243 All I know is that Steve Bannon tried for years to rehabilitate Epstein's image, and no one seems to give a fuck about him.

Also that everyone except literal crazy people who no one at the time believed because they were obviously crazy (you know, inventing boats and houses that Epstein never owned) say that Trump didn't like Epstein and helped the police to catch him.

Also, a bunch of no-name Democrat apparaticks keep resigning because of their affiliations with him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You can tell who are tied together by those grifters on X and on media that were so concerned with Epstein papers but NOT going after Bannon.

Bannon had over 1900 emails/texts with Epstein and plotted directly against Trump in them with Epstein. He is a lousy piece of shit.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)

244 Harpo kinda gives me the creeper vibe to honest.

Posted by: eleven at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (aTgV0)

245 242 And yet.

Quit being a defeatist.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (E6xSb)

======

Scott Brown won the special election in MA 16 years ago.

That means that whichever Republican runs for the next Senate race in MA may have a chance. Donate big money!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:41 PM (hAotW)

246 221 God is no binary is nudging into the Cultural Marxist theory for Transgender.

GOD is an entity that is neither male or female in the sense GOD is a greater being then all of us simple humans. GOD created Man and Woman in GOD's Image. I do not question GOD's Gender and only accept him and Jesus as our Father, Son, Savior, and Creator.

The Non-Binary Theory BS is just that..... Commie BS........

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 03, 2026 03:41 PM (/Uzmo)

247 If you think the point of God is that He is trans then you need to get right with Jesus. There's still time.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:41 PM (mWRBW)

248 A day without Pam Bondi is like a day with bright sunshine.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 03:41 PM (abIsI)

249 Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (mWRBW)

250 Are they releasing the unredacted files? And I think there are thousands of files yet to be released.

Whatever you think you're seeking in the files, it almost certainly doesn't exist. The files themselves are an op of a greater scale than Epstein himself ever ran.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (2ocoG)

251 And of course the Left will warn of our coming theocracy in hysterical language.

I think it would be good to have a discussion about how an explicitly Christian government would yield worse results than this horrifying monstrosity we have.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (BI5O2)

252 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

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Like in The Sting?

**********

Maybe more like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the picket fence.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (qgHp7)

253 Epstein is still waiting to explode?

You people are fucking retarded. Millions of pages released. Fuck off.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:34 PM (hAotW)

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Are they releasing the unredacted files? And I think there are thousands of files yet to be released.
Posted by: Seems Legit
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And Trump has 34 convictions, or something like that. He's a felon!!!!! And he's raped tons of women, all adults too!!!/////
-- everyone on my Nextdoor feed

Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (VCgbV)

254 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

Which is an odd behavior for a religious leader no?

Of course Muhammed was a brigand, a child rapist, and a genocidal killer according to Islam - I guess tricking one poor shlub to die for you is a much lesser crime...
Posted by: 18-1


Not a crime.
It is viewed as a clever trick used to get ahead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (/lPRQ)

255 I gave up cusing for Lent. I'm doing well so far. We'll see how I do when the in-laws arrive.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (abIsI)

256 250 Whatever you think you're seeking in the files, it almost certainly doesn't exist. The files themselves are an op of a greater scale than Epstein himself ever ran.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:42 PM (2ocoG)

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False.

Epstein ran the largest info op in human history, getting 89,000K video of every prominent political, social, religious, entertainment, sports, and YouTube personality on film having sex with babies.

And if you don't believe that the CIA has it in its vaults and refuses to release it, then you're protecting pedophiles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (hAotW)

257 As I understand it, the high-caste Indians are the liberal ones, the low-caste ones conservative

Dot guilt?

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (FguBe)

258 Hawaiian Judge appointed by Obama orders Trump to give back US Airman to Iran for further propaganda against him to help the Commie-Crats in the Midterm Elections.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (xvV4K)

259

Healey,

You wanted her gone and she is gone.

Find someone else to rant about.

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (3ek7K)

260 183 Cruz won by 2.6%. Still too close for comfort. But if you look at the counties, Beto somehow managed to flip a lot of red counties that Trump won in 2016. I find that very hard to believe that was possible without cheating.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 03:20 PM (iFTx/)

there is new management in the GOP that isn't run by GOPe traitors. They did OK in 2024.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

Beto got a lot of Leftist voters excited and it lasted for awhile but now, not so much. In spite of the defeatists, who insist I am going to be forced marched to the county courthouse to recite the Shehada and that TX will go blue tomorrow, that’s not the case. It’s helpful to have state laws mandating all 254 county sheriffs work with ICE, and even the RINOs are working hard to deal with evil Islam so it can give them red meat cover to do serious harm elsewhere. Frankly I am far more worried about State HR RINOs than I am about the Dems and all the defeatists here are shrieking about.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (E6xSb)

261 As I understand it, the high-caste Indians are the liberal ones, the low-caste ones conservative

Right. It's always the elites, where ever you go.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (2ocoG)

262 They did OK in 2024.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

Sure but OK is already deep red.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (mWRBW)

263 There can always be worse than the person being replaced

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (Ia/+0)

264 Maj Healey, you are as bad, if not worse, than the TDS inflicted.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (E6xSb)

265 89,000K video of every prominent political, social, religious, entertainment, sports, and YouTube personality on film having sex with babies.

And those sons a bitches didn't share any of it with me!?!?!?!?

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (JCZqz)

266 >>> According to CENTCOM, the second U.S. Air Force CSAR team sent into Iran to rescue the crew of the downed F-15E of the 494th Fighter Squadron has successfully located and rescued the second crew member.


CNN must be devastated
Posted by: brak
......

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBURGER at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (UjdFS)

267 Nood.

Posted by: Nood called, everybody upstairs at April 03, 2026 03:45 PM (skR0U)

268 262 They did OK in 2024.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 03:26 PM (8avO+)

Sure but OK is already deep red.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (mWRBW)

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Another point of data:

2008 saw massive, massive Democrat primary numbers in Texas.

It was blacks turning out for Obama. They outright outvoted Republicans in the respective primaries.

Obama lost the primary in Texas to Hillary.

He also lost the general election to McCain by 12 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (hAotW)

269 CNN is sad to announce that the Second F-15 Crewmember has been rescued so that we cannot bad mouth Trump for this disastrous war against Persons of Color.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (xvV4K)

270 CNN must be devastated

Imagine how Rachel Maddow is carrying on over on M-SNOW.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (2ocoG)

271 254 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

Which is an odd behavior for a religious leader no?

Of course Muhammed was a brigand, a child rapist, and a genocidal killer according to Islam - I guess tricking one poor shlub to die for you is a much lesser crime...
Posted by: 18-1


Not a crime.
It is viewed as a clever trick used to get ahead.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (/lPRQ)

Muslims probably borrowed that from gnostics. There were gnostics who believed the trick thing.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (5NDL0)

272 Ian S - not always, but yet see the Union of Salvation Russian Nobility officers.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (Ia/+0)

273 My company went on a hiring spree of foreign turdbags by offshoring the jobs to bypass H1B restrictions, would explain why domestic jobs while foreign jobs continue to rise, theyre just finding new ways to game the system
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
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Except US is probably going to start putting serious security blocks on a lot of those furriners after the fiasco with Microsoft Azure cloud services where ChiComs in China were directly accessing secure US government files. Pixy has a thread earlier from a Microsoft insider about how it happened.

Note the recent FTC ban on Chicom or even foreign made home routers (a possible route for another Salt Typhoon penetration of US telecoms)

I also suspect that the Indian CEO of Microsoft does not have much longer to hold office either and that probably means his cronies are out as well. Massive drop in stock price over the troubles in the last year. Anthropic is busy shooting itself in the head and is another where corporate leaders have driven themselves into a brick wall.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (E4rtv)

274 I think it would be good to have a discussion about how an explicitly Christian government would yield worse results than this horrifying monstrosity we have.

Back in the day I used to say a government completely full of Rick Santorums or Pat Robertsons would still be freer then what we have now.

And watching COVIDmania I stand by that.

Remember Roy Moore the guy the FNM/GOPe sabotaged because he has a 14 year age gap with his wife (he was 38 she was 24)? Last I saw him his was leading the anti-COVID lockdown efforts in his home state...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

275 Sure but OK is already deep red.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (mWRBW)

And full of RINOs. Didn’t Lankford want to give out amnesty because he feels sorry for illegal aliens? Doesn’t he want to help lawbreakers?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:47 PM (E6xSb)

276 Bannon had over 1900 emails/texts with Epstein and plotted directly against Trump in them with Epstein. He is a lousy piece of shit.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 03:40 PM (E4rtv)
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Bannon got on my bad side in a quick hurry, even in 2016. When he started ranting about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with "Russians", and basically capitulated to the Dems' take on this.

I thought it was innocent (but no less stupid) at the time. (Like an "own-goal") But apparently even the "right-wing" successor to Brietbart was a fucking plant in the Trump organization!

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)

277 Anthropic is busy shooting itself in the head and is another where corporate leaders have driven themselves into a brick wall.

Anthropic's product is fantastic. Shame about everything else.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (2ocoG)

278 Just goes to show the utter abyss of military and historical understanding in the public that while completely devastating a nations military power if a few planes are lost its a concerning disaster that requires discussion if it was even a victory.

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (PUrHv)

279 Sure but OK is already deep red.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 03:44 PM (mWRBW)

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But still just OK?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (Fi81e)

280 Reported that Whoopie Goldberg and the View Voluptuous Creatures with the Beauty of Helen of Troy were rushed to a local facility after overdoses on Jelly Donuts with the news about the rescued US Airman...

More to follow....

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at April 03, 2026 03:48 PM (xvV4K)

281 One prominent Islamic scholar even said that Jesus (PBUH) *tricked* some fool into taking his place!

But, again, they think a capricious and willful Allah cannot be questioned. Islam, literally, invokes slavery. You're nobody to look down on God's prophet (Jesus) even if he did trick some guy to die in his place.
Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)
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The Christian construction of Islam's Allah is probably best described by Pope Benedict XVI's "Regensburg Address", which he delivered, surprisingly enough, at the University of Regensburg in September, 2006.

The address was mainly focused on the Christian challenge to Modernity, but it starts with a debate between a Byzantine emperor and a Turkish diplomat on how God engages mankind. The Christian argument is that God speaks to man through reason, while Islam places its faith in an unknowable, transcendental supreme being.

Muslim religious leaders went ballistic after the address was released, of course. Threats, demands, the usual howls of outrage. Might be worth a read.

Posted by: mrp at April 03, 2026 03:50 PM (rj6Yv)

282 It will also be interesting to see how young people manage to reconcile their evil political views with their newfound religion.

Unlike older Leftists who attend Church, this is a conscious decision, rather than a traditional adherence to something they don't really care about, but do because their parents did and their friends' parents did, and it's where they like to hang out once a week before supporting and encouraging every imaginable sin.

The two ideas are completely incompatible. These kids will either leave the churches quickly as they came, or the politicians from "both" Parties are going to have a problem.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 03:51 PM (BI5O2)

283 Yes, it's lovely in a way.

BTW, I had one child, raised Catholic as all of mine were, attend the University of Pittsburgh for a Bachelor degree. It's a fine school. I also sent donations to an on-campus religious group that promised a safe place for all students around the clock to talk, pray, seek other forms of assistance, and not do anything to the exclusion of parents or guardians. I think they did a decent job.

But I told that child, as I told all of mine, to always come to me whatever they were dealing with, knowing the worse I could probably do would be to yell like a banshee for awhile. (That has proven true.)

I think some of this is taking hold through the Hallow app, Catholic by intent. Some through churches such as the Sanctuary Church in Pittsburgh and the Universal Unitarian churches that are all over the country.

Sometimes it seems the Roman Catholic Church & many Protestant churches have gone heavily into emphasizing social justice, community welfare, etc., and sometimes to the detriment of founding communities and, at times, eclipsing the proclamation of the gospel and the salvation of souls.

I worry it doesn't seem a solution to anti-Semitism.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 03:53 PM (NFX2v)

284 Not a crime.
It is viewed as a clever trick used to get ahead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (/lPRQ)

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Exactly! Arabs have always valued "cleverness", even the kind that cheats other people. This is cultural and predates Islam--yet Islam easily absorbed this cultural value.

This is why Tawriya and Taqqiya are kinda-sorta on the board within Islam.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

285 I don't know who Aldus H Chapin II is but he must've been one hell of a narrator!

Lincoln and the Sioux Uprising of 1862
By: Hank H. Cox
Narrated by: Aldus H Chapin II's voice replica

https://is.gd/QQQSTz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 03:54 PM (ndZc7)

Obama-Biden Have Implemented Stealth Communism
Plus: Hobbit/LOTR Reading Progress Thread

You probably remember that Obama partially "solved" his unemployment crisis by simply changing the standards about who was eligible to collect Medicaid and disibility insurance. By the stroke of a pen, he changed administrative standards so that the chronically unemployed -- his voters, I mean -- would get paid by the government. They would of course be loyal to the man giving them free money, and putting them on these programs took them out of the unemployed pool and made the numbers look better.

Say anyone else remember "Jobs Saved and Created"? Remember, it's Trump who's the liar who makes up his own fake facts, not the demon Obama.

Nic Carter wrote a post discussing Biden greatly expanding upon the Obama plan to impose socialist guaranteed income (or UBI, "Universal Basic Income," long the dream of AOC and her communist allies) -- at least for his voters. The people controlling the Biden Autopen simply ended all authentication/auditing for the billions of dollars they robbed from hardworking taxpayers to give to their cronies. Anyone who spent an hour filling out paperwork could have $500 million, with no chance of ever being caught for fraud, because Biden's Autopen turned off all fraud detection, deliberately.

We blame Somali pirates for plundering us but the Democrat-Communist Party did this too us, deliberately. They could not pass a reparations bill, so they allowed all of their voters to just requisition their own personal reparations funds from taxpayers by simply opening a "hospice business" or even a "learing center."

Read it all:


nic carter
@nic_carter

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI [Universal Basic Income] is already here.

basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc

bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives

extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic.

giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing

people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T)

complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year.

this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system -- payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D).

in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%.

the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers"

of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents.

the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does.

of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker.

the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

Related: Video of the FBI arresting eight fraudsters, in an operation they call Operation Never Say Die.

That's a joke -- the people in "Hospice care" never actually die because they're not sick at all and their information has been obtained and used fraudulently.

I mean, the FBI gave the operation that jokey name. It's the operation's real name, but it's a humorous one.


Related: Part of the plan is also to replace the native population, of course.

And how's that going?

Meanwhile:

Leading Democrat Calls for Reparations for Illegal Immigrants

As Chicago and other blue cities move toward reparations for African Americans, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement. At the same time, various Democrats are making clear that they want to entirely defund and eliminate Immigration and Customs Enforcement. So, after the Biden Administration allowed in millions over an open border, Democrats would eliminate ICE and some like Jayapal would pay illegal immigrants reparations.

Rep. Jayapal declared on Friday:

"They need to be brought before us, and they need to be held account [sic] for the trauma that they have created, and we are going to have to have some form of reparation for the kids and the families that have been traumatized through all of this."

While not calling for reparations, other democrats have picked up the theme that someone has to pay for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.

Unrelated: For those joining me on a trip to Middle Earth, how is it going?

I did barely any reading the last three nights. Tuesday night I ran out for a 10 pm showing of Project Hail Mary and Wednesday and Thursday nights I worked late to write a bunch of (mostly open thread) posts for today and Monday.

Today I'm going to jump back in and finish The Hobbit so I can start Fellowship by Saturday.

If you haven't read the Hobbit yet, let me recommend it vigorously. It is a fast, exciting, fun, and very funny read. You may not think of Tolkien as funny because the Lord of the Rings is serious and weighty, but the Hobbit has jokes on almost every page. If you like cheeky British humor, you'll smile a lot.

I think in Lord of the Rings, it took about 180 pages to get to Rivendell, and then we spent, IIRC, two (or even three) 50-70 chapters at that place.

In the Hobbit, we arrive in Rivendell around page 60, and we spend six pages there. Just six. Tolkien directly addresses the reader and says that while grim, scary, and unpleasant stories may be interesting and take many pages to tell, stories of places that are lovely and welcoming and relaxing do not make for good stories, and thus are told much more quickly. He's always making these kind of playful asides to the reader. (And in LOTR, he retcons the Hobbit to divulge that it was actually written by Bilbo Baggins himself, writing in the third person but usually from the POV of Bilbo. So we learn that the amusing narrator of the book is none other than the main character himself).

The book is about 320 pages and they are fast pages. If you've ever been put off by the hulking Lord of the Rings, and thought "I just can't commit to a 1,200 page book," give The Hobbit a try. To be honest, I think it's better than LOTR. I've read it about 10 times and I've only read through LOTR completely twice. (And the first time I did a lot of skimming.)

Oh -- and don't compare it to the bloated movies, which padded the hell out of everything to make it move at the slower pace of LOTR.

Anyway, that's where I am, just leaving Rivendell and heading for the Misty Mountains.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




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1 YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? IT'S BLADING TIME!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (iFTx/)

2 i'm stuck where I was on Tuesday night, "On the Doorstep." I tried to read in the theater for the 40 minutes before the show but it was too loud man.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (1wjle)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (NcvvS)

4 YAY HOBBITSES

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (tcsrY)

5 oh I also got distracted reading Robert E. Howard's "Skull-Face." Which it turns out is a little like The Shadow novel. Though it's mostly a "patch," as they say, on Doctor Fu-Manchu.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (1wjle)

6 Willowed:

May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM


You realize this elevated Ace to Chuck Norris status, as the only two men to tell a woman to calm down, with successful results?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (0sNs1)

7 Read the Hobbit and am 3/4 the way through The Fellowship of the Ring.. I had forgotten what a good read these books are...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (FtULh)

8 i recall lotr was popular when i was in hi school in the early '70s. found a copy online recently, read the first 2 paragraphs and decided it was meant for 12 year olds

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (CWTWj)

9 I told pete to fuck off until Tuesday. He ignored me. He is now gone and permanently banned.

Today is not the day for shit-stirring, trolls.
Posted by: ace

Dear Mr. Ace,

I have some additional staff termination notifications to make...would you be interested in making a little money on the side doing them for me? I like your style.

Trump 47

Posted by: President Trump at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (aJmLS)

10 (although I've never read any Fu-Manchu-- maybe The Shadow borrowed the element of the mystery man recruiting relatively normal people to act as their agents from Fu-Manchu.)

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (1wjle)

11 My progress on LOTR is zero. I am a one trick pony, I am afraid. As soon as the noon class ends, I am going to go do my own workout. Or maybe I will go run. If I run, y’all can expect the usual results- me coming here wondering why I ran because I hate it. One. Trick. Pony.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (OoFl2)

12 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

13 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

14 Ah, that fresh no beatin' peet smell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

15 >>>8 Read the Hobbit and am 3/4 the way through The Fellowship of the Ring.. I had forgotten what a good read these books are...

wow that's some progress. I need to finish this Children's Book today. It's getting embarassing!

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (1wjle)

16 Ace I want to genuinely wish you a Happy Easter and hope it's a truly Good day for you. I personally feel the weight of today differently every year, as I change and my understanding of Jesus and maybe even God changes.

Today has been particularly heavy in it. I appreciate you giving us this little timeless (and I do mean timeless) safe haven of internet where the values of your readers and commenters are generally respected and not insulted like 99.99% of the "conservative" sites end up doing. The site has had its moments but your humor and overall sense of fairness has been the engine that drives it and keeps it going despite politics generally being a very sucky thing to talk about. I really thank God we still have this fun little place.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (mWRBW)

17 I'm going to disagree with ace a bit on Hobbit vs. Lord of the Rings.

Although The Hobbit is certainly enjoyable and much more whimsical than LOTR, it suffers a bit from a lack of meaningful interaction between characters.

Much of the story is given as exposition, rather than shown through dialogue. For that reason, I skimmed a fair amount of The Hobbit as I wanted more characters DOING things, than having the narrator explain that the characters did some things.

I also found the pacing in LOTR far faster than I remembered. Yes, there are several chapters spent on characters standing around talking to each other, but the chapters where action is happening move FAST because Tolkien lets the reader fill in the gaps in their imagination.

Battle of the Pelennor Fields takes up less than ten pages and most of that is Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (ESVrU)

18 >>>For those joining me on a trip to Middle Earth, how is it going?

It's baseball season. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)

19 I also love the Hobbit. And LOTR, though they are very different reading experiences.

The Hobbit CAN be read faster than the shitty movie versions can be watched.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (xcxpd)

20 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (52ERr)

21 I sometimes wonder if I’m just a big sucker going to work everyday and paying my bills. Maybe I should open a learing center and start collecting grift for doing nothing myself…. When so many others are doing that I do feel like a sucker doing the right thing….
We are a society of perverse incentives

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (xT8gx)

22 The elft touts a bunch a bunch of studies that note people feel more secure and happier if they are getting UBI.

Well...duh. If you hand people a monthly stipend for nothing what do you expect?

Also the studies show people on UBI are spend more time not working and are pickier about the jobs they take.

Again...duh.

So if the goal is to get people to work less and feel better about it UBI works.

Oh but then there is the other part. Since you are giving money away it has to come from someone with a job. So that guy, we will call him "me" here has to work more hours and more years so that some AWFL can spend her time not working. But that's "fair" right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (sKqQm)

23 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)

24 it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI [Universal Basic Income] is already here.



My stupid cracker ass doesn't get shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (K3Fc+)

25 And I'm reading LeCarre's 'Little Drummer Girl', so I can compare it to the Park Chan-Wook remake, and it's very good. Not nearly as 'the West sucks' as most of his other work. It helps that we have competent Mossad agents as protagonists. And, frankly, it's halfway to being a love story. You know...for the chicks.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (xcxpd)

26 >>>21 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.

it was for me when I read it as a kid. It still is, but it's easier to read as an adult.

He sure does like his archaic words, though.

One interesting one he uses. He says something like "The Black Rider's eyes burned like hellcoals."

Hellcoals?

I looked it up -- apparently it means the glowing yellow-red coals in a cooking pit.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (1wjle)

27 Eric Swalwell is the Nicolas Maduro of Gray Davises

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (Dv3i1)

28 Can we use some of the defense budget to bomb Pramila Jayapal?

Posted by: The_Hoser at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (H4qGm)

29 Commit to a 1200 page book? How's reading the entire thing out loud to my kids sit on the commitment scale? Throw in The Hobbit while you're at it.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (AkKZw)

30 Speaking of Obama ...

... he stole 2012, didn't he?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

31
My stupid cracker ass doesn't get shit.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (K3Fc+)



Because 'white = Satan' sir.

You are the problem. They're importing the illegals to kill you first and foremost.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

32 In LotR the travelers are facing a lot of, let's say, hindrance on the road to Rivendell, after which they give Frodo time to recover from his injuries and hold the Council of Elrond. In The Hobbit, it's really just the trolls who interfere with the journey, and they leave very quickly.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (NcvvS)

33 So it's a book thread?

Posted by: Just got here at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (2Ez/1)

34
Battle of the Pelennor Fields takes up less than ten pages and most of that is Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026

You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)

35 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

36 I'm just now tackling The Count of Monte Cristo, another behemoth. One might think a book of that length (1200+) would have to have some fluff, some distractions and red herrings. Instead, every chapter that begins to look like it's heading in the direction of filler winds back into the intrigue.

I was also daunted by the prospect of reading chapter after chapter of dismal prison travails, but that episode is disposed with fairly quickly and is packed with the instruments of Daunte's revenge. Much recommend!

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sLLbN)

37 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)

Drop busload after busload of illegals outside his doorstep until the decision drops. Non-stop, 24-7.

This fucker thinks he's insulated from endless waves of illegal immigration incentivized by birthright citizenship? Disabuse him of that notion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)

38 IMO tje Cultural Marxist Seminaries wete the ones who keep ig going, Barky was a student of it thats why he is a messenger of Marxism. The Auto-Pen administration was run buy Cultural Marxist Seminaries students, Biden was in it gor himself as a lifetime goal and cared less about anything else that happened.

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)

39 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
----
Right back atcha! ;-)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ESVrU)

40 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)



And if you steal the wallet of someone in Japan, you have their ID, which makes you beholden to Japan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

41 BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

-
The more things change . . .

https://is.gd/VsZNAE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ndZc7)

42 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
----
Right back atcha! ;-)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ESVrU)



Me, hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

43 Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (Ia/+0)

Is it ironic that I never want to "skip" your comments?

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (mWRBW)

44 You know if the Dunedain practiced Islam, Aragorn wouldn't have to pick between an elf lady and a horse lady...

Posted by: Just Saying at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

45 >>> it's really just the trolls who interfere with the journey, and they leave very quickly.

I think they're there for more than a week.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:32 PM (1wjle)

46 Fewer and fewer people doing more and more while the rest do less? It's been told before.

""The Marching Morons" is a science fiction story by American writer Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2026 01:32 PM (lLEcp)

47 One of my favorite parts of LOTR is Merry and Pippin’s meeting the Ent Treebeard and their attendance at the Entmoot…. Not sure why I like it because the pace of the book is slow at that point but Tolkien’s imagination in creating the Ents was wonderful…. And I just loved it when they tore up Isengard…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (xT8gx)

48 Drop busload after busload of illegals outside his doorstep until the decision drops. Non-stop, 24-7.

Remember when governor meatball sent 50...just 50!...illegals to Martha's Vineyard Island the Gov of MA literally called out the national guard to round them up and send them to a concentration camp on the mainland

Posted by: Just Saying at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

49
He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)




Be careful getting to second base with Entboobs, you might get a splinter in your finger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (y9nCu)

50 two weeks, which is what I wanted to say, but I thought maybe he said they spent two weeks at Laketown and maybe I was getting it confused:

Bilbo Baggins stayed at Rivendell for
a fortnight (14 days) during his journey to the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit. The party arrived at Elrond's home in late spring/early summer, having rested, repaired, and received crucial information regarding their map and the journey ahead before continuing east.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (1wjle)

51 Chinese immigrants are still tied to the Chinese Communist party.
They are not letting millions leave just to make a better life for themselves. They report to the Chinese Communist police departments here

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (Ia/+0)

52 23 Honestly, If I were Trump, I would have select MIB show up at Robert's home and have a long discussion with him about this Birth Right Citizenship thing. Make a deal he can't refuse. Safely of course.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (abIsI)


I think the home of Mary McCord should be their next stop...

Posted by: Denny Crane - How Has This Twat Not Been In The News More? at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (dmDsy)

53 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)


Hey Treebeard are you happy to see me or is that the same wood you are always sporting?

Posted by: Some Entwife at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

54 20 LOTRs was a real slog when I was a teenager.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)

55
Hey Treebeard are you happy to see me or is that the same wood you are always sporting?
Posted by: Some Entwife at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)



GROOT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

56 I literally think the fraud is so enormous that even people like Trump are afraid to really address it because it’s almost a form of stimulus for the economy. What happens when you stop hundreds of billions flowing?

It was like DOGE uncovered all of these troubling things than Musk was suddenly run out of town and we never again heard about 130 year olds collecting SS.

Posted by: Maroon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (VjIox)

57 >>>Theoden dying and Eowyn killing the Lord of the Nazgul.

Geez, can we get a spoiler alert?

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (sLLbN)

58 He's not looking for Saruman. He's looking for his Entwife.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (viF8m)

Be careful getting to second base with Entboobs, you might get a splinter in your finger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (y9nCu)

I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

59 Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three

NO YELLOW!

Posted by: Hunter Biden dreaming of elf ladies. Nordic looking elf ladies at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (sKqQm)

60 Exactly. When I was that age I'd chew through a Clavell novel in 3 days, now I'd have ADD by page three.
---------------
Clavell is a genius at epics. Total page turner.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (n17eQ)

61 >>Going from memory because haven't read it in a while, but yes, thinking it was more than a week in Rivendell for Bilbo et Cie - which was probably a very strained time for the dwarves - but in LotR it was closer to 2 months.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (NcvvS)

62 Maybe I should open a learing center and start collecting grift for doing nothing myself….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Where? A blue metro area? You don't have the proper oppression-point mix, so you'll get prosecuted. Or, you'd already need a lot of money to "donate" to the right political candidates and activities to be "overlooked".

Posted by: Reality at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (aJmLS)

63 On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen. I read all of ‘em and there were more than 100 (small) books…. Franklin W Dixon was no Tolkien that’s for sure…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (xT8gx)

64 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (mWRBW)

65 Interesting non political news story. (Many questions remain.)

https://is.gd/ik3eG8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (ndZc7)

66 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)


And if you steal the wallet of someone in Japan, you have their ID, which makes you beholden to Japan.
Posted by: Sponge


So if I get caught stealing Ketanji Brown's hubcaps from her driveway, her house belongs to me.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (K3Fc+)

67 Biden doubled the budget to just under $8T.

All of that expansion was fraud.

On top of the base level of fraud which is at least 50%.

Now imagine you stop all that graft and throw everyone getting it in prison...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

68 Robert E Howard is a favorite author of mine. He would write for any magazine so he played with a lot of genres.
I liked the Solomon Kane stories better than the Conan stories, but I think that had to do with deCamp writing the follow up ones, and as a young reader that was all that was available in the library.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (rbvCR)

69 Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ...


He was the sacrificial lamb.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (K3Fc+)

70 I didn't find the movies bloated, but I was frustrated by how much extra crap Jackson packed into them and stuff they left out. I don't mean Tom Bombadil, that was momentum-killing nonsense. But leaving out the Scouring of the Shire ruins the entire third movie, especially when you see Peter Jackson extending a few paragraphs into a hour hour of endings.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (El6/E)

71 Willowed:

Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)

No.

The single most popular part of the Democratic platform is abortion. Then it's punishing those who have jobs.

That's it. Killing babies and class envy. Peace doesn't permit the revolution. They actively oppose peace. They want us dead.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (FmapG)

72 >>> 67 Biden doubled the budget to just under $8T.

All of that expansion was fraud.

On top of the base level of fraud which is at least 50%.

Now imagine you stop all that graft and throw everyone getting it in prison...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (sKqQm)

...

...

... 'prison'?

Posted by: Zombie Pinochet at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (ULPxl)

73 >>50 - and you've already answered. *respectful nod*

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (NcvvS)

74 I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

Whew!

Posted by: Innocent Knot-holes Everywhere at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (mWRBW)

75 > Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, Wa.) wants reparations for illegal immigrants for the trauma caused by immigration enforcement.

That's nice.

I want Pramila Jayapal's citizenship revoked and her skanky ass deported.

Now that we've had that frank exchange of views...

Seriously, why do these people continue to live in a country they despise?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (IG3/x)

76 63 On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen. I read all of ‘em and there were more than 100 (small) books…. Franklin W Dixon was no Tolkien that’s for sure…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (xT8gx)


*quiet sob*

Posted by: Encyclopedia Brown at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (dmDsy)

77 Going from memory because haven't read it in a while, but yes, thinking it was more than a week in Rivendell for Bilbo et Cie - which was probably a very strained time for the dwarves - but in LotR it was closer to 2 months.

Imagine the first time Legolas tried to get Gimli to drink a Zima.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (sKqQm)

78 >>> On the opposite end of the spectrum from LOTR in literature are the Hardy Boys mysteries… they’re hardly literature but I loved them as a teen

i never read those. they seemed old fashioned.

What I did read were knock-off books published, supposedly, under the directorship of Alfred Hitchcock -- "The Three Investigators."

See, there's three not two, so it's different.

I remember one was called Jupiter Jones (the smart one) and there was an athlete one called, I think, "Pete."

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (1wjle)

79 So that guy, we will call him "me" here has to work more hours and more years so that some AWFL can spend her time not working. But that's "fair" right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April

AWFLs perpetuate this nonsense because they seem to think their income stream won’t be tapped to fund the lazy amongst us. What is more interesting to me is the lefty females crying the blues about having to work unfulfilling jobs while looking down their noses at tradwives. Let me let them in on a little secret. 😉

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (OoFl2)

80 The word Jayapal sounds gay.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (n17eQ)

81
Good afternoon, everyone. Happy Good Friday.

*observes shit covered stirring stick*

*leaves shit covered stirring stick alone*

Busy day, y'all be nice to one another.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (QVmho)

82
Seriously, why do these people continue to live in a country they despise?


Because they are stealing from you. Its like asking a medieval noble why if he hated the peasants so he didn't leave.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (sKqQm)

83 >>>It's baseball season. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Remember when a baseball game was perfect for reading? All that down time plus the commercials? Now the games clip along so fast that you can't finish a page before the next inning begins.

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (sLLbN)

84 The Hobbit CAN be read faster than the shitty movie versions can be watched.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (xcxpd)


Mr. Ballentine in 1st grade did a story time, and read The Hobbit for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

85 74 I'll never look at a knot-hole the same way again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)

Whew!
Posted by: Innocent Knot-holes Everywhere at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (mWRBW)


Wait, just come closer, I want to tell you something... And maybe show you something...

Posted by: Slutty Knot-Holes Everywhere at April 03, 2026 01:40 PM (dmDsy)

86 Maybe call it Pigford 3.0?

Or more like 3.0 - 12.0?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

87 loyal to the man giving them free money,"

Obama money! Right, Peggy?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:40 PM (XuXeR)

88 Anyone who paid attention in the previous decades in the UK as NHS and other social services devoured the budget, it was inevitable the fall of England's military.

Even as they funneled munitions and such to Ukraine they never ramped production to replace what was sent.

And now the First Sea Lord has admitted to a Swedish media outlet, the Royal Navy is on the binnacle list.

This could be the US.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2026 01:40 PM (e2cjy)

89 I would say roughly, 3 trillion of the annual Fed Budget is straight fraud and corruption and at a bare minimum, 30 pct of every local and state budget is fraud and corruption.

We are 34T in debt with nothing to show for it...

Well, check that, someone has something to show for it, certainly ain't you and me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (XV/Pl)

90 But leaving out the Scouring of the Shire ruins the entire third movie, especially when you see Peter Jackson extending a few paragraphs into a hour hour of endings.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (El6/E)
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A few paragraphs?

Each of those endings in the movies was basically a chapter unto itself within the books.

Jackson did pad both Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields, though. Each of those chapters was only a few pages within the books.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (ESVrU)

91 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:36 PM (mWRBW)
______

Romney was a simping queef. But I think he still won that election. Obama, his policies, the economy, and indeed the entire government were very unpopular in 2012.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

92 It was like DOGE uncovered all of these troubling things than Musk was suddenly run out of town and we never again heard about 130 year olds collecting SS.

Posted by: Maroon at April 03, 2026 01:35 PM (VjIox)

Musk wasn't run out of town.

His billet was time-limited due to his status as a non-Government employee.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (FmapG)

93 Can you see the Left ever announcing...

"Global Warming is solved! We are done!"

or

"The reparations worked! Stealing from white people is over!"

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (mWRBW)

94 >>Imagine the first time Legolas tried to get Gimli to drink a Zima.

Ok, LOL.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (NcvvS)

95 Remember when a baseball game was perfect for reading? All that down time plus the commercials? Now the games clip along so fast that you can't finish a page before the next inning begins.
----------------
Yep. When I was a Met fan I would read until the 7th inning and then watch them win the game. Like clockwork.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (n17eQ)

96 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Now, everyone is focused on the first clause which is debatable but its the second clause that is the nail in the coffin of birthright citizenship. See that final word?

RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters. Tourists do not RESIDE here. A Chinese woman who flies to US territory to drop a kid DOES NOT RESIDE THERE.

That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (El6/E)

97 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)


It could well be argued that the mother was a slave.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

98 56 I literally think the fraud is so enormous that even people like Trump are afraid to really address it because it’s almost a form of stimulus for the economy. What happens when you stop hundreds of billions flowing?
____

You'd have to figure that a lot of US taxpayer money is leaving the country and is going to foreign warlords to make war on each other and occasionally screw around with US interests. And I expect a lot goes to immigrants, legal and otherwise, to send back in remittances which helps placate what otherwise would be popular uprisings in certain 3rd world countries. But yes, I assume some of that money is used to keep a certain pct of regular US citizens from stealing from their neighbors to feed their addictions, preventing the need for bailouts for beverage distributors, drug dealers and gambling sites.

Now, get back to work! That money has to come from somewhere.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (Dv3i1)

99 Pigford was a preschool version of the fraud that we see today

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (Ia/+0)

100 [i9]What is more interesting to me is the lefty females crying the blues about having to work unfulfilling jobs while looking down their noses at tradwives. Let me let them in on a little secret.

Even within the corporate world AWFLs have this odd idea that everyone else loves their job and it is just them that would rather do something else if money wasn't a concern.

And overall the left has this really odd failure to understand the economy. They want goods and services made by other people. But...they think it is unfair to demand they to provide goods and services to their fellow man in return...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

101 Yeah, Pramila can go, and take her sister with her.

We don’t owe gatecrashers anything. Be happy we’re flying you home.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (4KUe5)

102 What I did read were knock-off books published, supposedly, under the directorship of Alfred Hitchcock -- "The Three Investigators."

See, there's three not two, so it's different.

I remember one was called Jupiter Jones (the smart one) and there was an athlete one called, I think, "Pete."

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (1wjle)
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I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (ESVrU)

103 Two choppers flanking a big plane in Iran on Goldies Rumble.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (52ERr)

104 More nervous than a dwarf in Rivendell?

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (LHPAg)

105 >>Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (sLLbN)

And yet the games still run 3 FUCKING HOURS!

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (NcvvS)

106 So if I get caught stealing Ketanji Brown's hubcaps from her driveway, her house belongs to me.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (K3Fc+)


No, but she is obliged to pay your auto insurance

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (rbvCR)

107 >80 The word Jayapal sounds gay.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:39 PM (n17eQ)



Jawa Pal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (IG3/x)

108
I'm going to reread the Hobbit and LOTR at some point this year. I might even redip my toe into Tolkien's Cookbook, "The Simarillion", which is a pretty boring load of recipes for stories but not so much stories themselves.

Currently, I just finished reading two books out of Iain M Banks' Culture series. "The Player of Games", which is very good. And "The Use of Weapons, which should be better but is just okay.

Banks Culture series owes a lot to Michael Moorcock's "Dancers at the End of Time". Both of which postulate "end stage" societies where anything is possible and everything is provided by machines.

I also think that Banks wanted to introduce a Greek/Roman mythological style interaction between "men' and gods. In this case, the gods are huge AI minds which control everything and manipulate the organic and machine life forms for often obscure goals and reason.

Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

109 Remember according to the left's take on citizenship, a child born of a Japanese soldier and a Korean "comfort woman" during the Japanese invasion of Alaska was a US citizen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

It could well be argued that the mother was a slave.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)


I suppose that there might have been some volunteers but I don't see how you could consider her to be anything else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (ExV1e)

110 42 You are truly a gem here. You really, really are. Do not ever think otherwise.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (OoFl2)
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Right back atcha! ;-)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:31 PM (ESVrU)


Me, hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Get real. You know I love you. Mainly because I think your wife is awesome.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (OoFl2)

111 Absolutely Japanese women prisoners in WWII were slaves

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (Ia/+0)

112 This could be the US."

It will be. From Rome on, this is how "it" works out. Aleric didn't have to invade...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (XuXeR)

113 It is now being reported that Iran, who sat on the UN HRC, has put a bounty on capturing American pilots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (e2cjy)

114 Two choppers flanking a big plane in Iran on Goldies Rumble.

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It's after 9pm in Iran. That footage is from way earlier.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (GD0B3)

115 Hey guys!

Just got back from my whale watching tour (aka walk down the beach).

Anything interesting happen?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (A5RD0)

116 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (n17eQ)

117 How can you tell the elf gals from the elf boys? The former don't get a bulge in their dresses when they see a particularly pretty tree.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (sKqQm)

118 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Yep.

Frank and Joe had the classic old brother, junior brother going on. Nancy Drew did not rely on a sidekick although she had friends. I seem to remember that the father in both the Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew also played a much bigger part than the parents in the Three Investigators.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

119 115 Hey guys!

Just got back from my whale watching tour (aka walk down the beach).

Anything interesting happen?
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The gits are back talking about LOTR - so nothing has happened.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:46 PM (n17eQ)

120 > RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters.

Yes. It's like calling these mooks "undocumented immigrants" rather than "illegal aliens".

Always push back when someone calls them "immigrants". They aren't any kind of "immigrant". They are, as you say, invaders.

See also: "gender". Human beings do not have "'genders"". They have sexes, of which there are exactly two.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:46 PM (IG3/x)

121 The posterior side of an Entwife is where you'll find the not-hole.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:46 PM (0sNs1)

122 the best part of the Hobbit is how Bilbo is always hungry and wants breakfast

well it's the most relatable part for me, anyway

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2026 01:46 PM (jGJov)

123 . Both of which postulate "end stage" societies where anything is possible and everything is provided by machines"

"The Machine Stops"
E. M. Forster nailed it nearly 120 years ago...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:46 PM (XuXeR)

124 As has been noted recently, the Democrats and MSM tell us a foreigner who’s been here 15 minutes is owed citizenship, while heritage Americans are occupying “stolen land.”

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (4KUe5)

125 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


That's the most important part. Don't believe me?

Try and draft a wetback.
Or force them to sign up for Selective Service.

You'll find out just how quick you don't have jurisdiction over them.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (K3Fc+)

126 116 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.
Posted by: pudinhead
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Heinlein's adult books were hit or miss but his juveniles or even the semi juvenile Podkayne of Mars were universally entertaining.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (E4rtv)

127 There is another form of fraud besides the bogus hospice/childcare/learing center types. I call this soft fraud and it is baked into the Obamacare cake.

Doctors, clinics and hospitals are incentivized to milk $$$ out of Obamacare via such actions as up-coding office visits and defaulting things such as follow-up visit frequency and testing to the point of unnecessary visits and tests that then become the "standard of care".

I can cite examples from personal experience

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (qgHp7)

128 Jackson did pad both Helm's Deep and Pelennor Fields, though. Each of those chapters was only a few pages within the books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Jackson had to deal with the Army of the Dead, which in the book was only referred to in a conversation with Gimli and Legolas. But unfortunately Jackson just had them roll over the battlefield because it looked cool on screen (I didn't think so) and greatly diminished the sacrifice made by the men (and one woman) on the field of battle. Jackson kept adding things as the 3 movies went on such that only his first movie was actually any good, to this faithful book reader anyway.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

129 @96

>>That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

We keep fiddle f**king over this crap, the express purpose of the 14th amendment was to deal with the status of freed slaves.

There is no world in which the framers of the 14th amendment were talking about children born of illegal aliens.

If a person is in this country illegally, any child born during the improper act cannot be a citizen.

It's f**king absurd that we have to spend any brain cells on this bullsh*t.

A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (XV/Pl)

130
Maybe but did Romney ever intend to win or was he just the designated Faggy Liberal Elite CorpoStooge GOP (BIRM) punching bag du jour (BIRM again)?
Posted by: ...


He was the sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (K3Fc+)


Romney intended to win (he'd basically been running for President for 20 years before actually getting on the ballot). Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory, ascending on a staircase covered in rose petals, with the choir angelic sweetly singing "God Bless The USA" over the background music of Handel and rainbows arcing over him.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (y9nCu)

131 There is a phenomenon now called "second screen" or "background" viewing, in which people have something on while they are doing something on another screen. You may be doing it right now, I am. I have a Youtube podcast playing while I comment on here a little and work on rewriting a Champions scenario.

Younger people do this a lot, they are on their phone while they have the TV on or a tablet running a show or movie. Now, while some respond to this phenomenon by writing their TV shows for people who are not really paying attention, so they repeat themselves a lot and explain what just happened one or more times.

But here's the thing: baseball is the perfect background viewing content. You don't have to watch every second. A good commentator will give you what you need to know. Baseball, the old school, before all the crappy changes recently, is ironically perfect for the modern era of entertainment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (El6/E)

132 Musk wasn't run out of town.

His billet was time-limited due to his status as a non-Government employee.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (FmapG)


If Musk had hired on as a cabinet member he would have been forced to divest all his stocks that were government related, which is in fact most of them, and that would have tanked the markets since there was so much of it.
The only upside would have been that he would not have been required to pay capital gains on it, which is still not a good compensation for the loss.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

133 i remember election day 2012. i conked out early and got up around 11 pm just in time to see romney give the most beautiful heartfelt concession speech, like he was just so darn grateful that he was given the opportunity to run for president. i fully expected !jeb to do the same thing in 2016 but that mean old trump went and stole the nomination and the election and made it real hard for the repub establishment to fundraise

also i have to start reading 'ulysses' again this year

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (CWTWj)

134 124 As has been noted recently, the Democrats and MSM tell us a foreigner who’s been here 15 minutes is owed citizenship, while heritage Americans are occupying “stolen land.”

Posted by: Lizzy

Setting the stage for South Africa's end in the US. They want us dead so they can replace us. I decline to take that deal.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (E4rtv)

135 I'm reading ....the directions on the back of a Ramen container. I've read this story before. Many times. It always ends the same. Very satisfying.

Posted by: Orson at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (dIske)

136 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (iFTx/)

IIRC he beat Obama badly in the first debate and then got Crowleyed.

I think that stuff matters bigly - but it also matters that the only reason Hillary ended up day drinking with broken lamps *outside* the White House is because they simply underestimated the need for cheating in a few key states where Trump belted her hide.

So anything is possible.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (mWRBW)

137 How can you tell the elf gals from the elf boys?"

The redhead in the later flix?
Yes, please.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (XuXeR)

138 > Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory

"Mitt Romney: Because It's His Turn".

To my everlasting shame, I did vote for McCain.

Romney was a bridge too far, though. At least I don't have him on my conscience.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (IG3/x)

139 I almost am to the point Jackson just rewrote LotR to his own story

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (Ia/+0)

140 The Bolsheviks became the vanguard of the proletariat so gradually that we scarcely noticed until Trump thwarted them. And then they lost their minds publicly.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (4NO2D)

141 And overall the left has this really odd failure to understand the economy. They want goods and services made by other people. But...they think it is unfair to demand they to provide goods and services to their fellow man in return...
Posted by: 18-1 at April

Is this a euphemism?

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (OoFl2)

142 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Now, everyone is focused on the first clause which is debatable but its the second clause that is the nail in the coffin of birthright citizenship. See that final word?

RESIDE. Where they RESIDE. Illegal immigrants do not RESIDE here, they are invaders, they are squatters. Tourists do not RESIDE here. A Chinese woman who flies to US territory to drop a kid DOES NOT RESIDE THERE.

That one single, simple word blows the entire argument to tatters and for some reason its being totally ignored.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:41 PM (El6/E)

Yeah, even M-W forgot to update their definitions for leftist purposes:

"The meaning of RESIDE is to dwell permanently or continuously : occupy a place as one's legal domicile."

It's circular, but it speaks to intent of the clause.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (dK+Kv)

143 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys.

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I remember reading the Three Investigators and even started my own group as inspiration where we pretended to investigate crimes

I also read a slightly more modern series of Frank and Joe Hardy where Joe was more the brawn and Frank the intellect, it kicked off with Joe's girlfriend being killed in a car explosion so it was a much darker read, still cool though

I miss those days, life was simple, no social media, tons of mystery books to read, Reagan was my grandpa

then i turned 29

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (REq0p)

144 We keep fiddle f**king over this crap, the express purpose of the 14th amendment was to deal with the status of freed slaves.

There is no world in which the framers of the 14th amendment were talking about children born of illegal aliens.

If a person is in this country illegally, any child born during the improper act cannot be a citizen.

It's f**king absurd that we have to spend any brain cells on this bullsh*t.

A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?
Posted by: Thomas Bender



Fruit of the poisoned tree.

That's my line.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (K3Fc+)

145 Jackson had to deal with the Army of the Dead, which in the book was only referred to in a conversation with Gimli and Legolas. But unfortunately Jackson just had them roll over the battlefield because it looked cool on screen (I didn't think so) and greatly diminished the sacrifice made by the men (and one woman) on the field of battle. Jackson kept adding things as the 3 movies went on such that only his first movie was actually any good, to this faithful book reader anyway.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)
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In the books, the Army of the Dead doesn't even do any real fighting. It simply exudes a fear aura that causes Gondor's enemies to surrender or flee in terror. Aragorn actually leads an army of living warriors he's gathered on his trek across Gondor, who take over the ships of the Corsairs of Umbar to perform a sneak attack when they arrive at the Pelennor fields.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (ESVrU)

146 This could explain why the last few decades have been about getting rid of manual labor and trade schools, so that those really earning an income don't see how everybody else is getting their money.

Posted by: ChrisW at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (rLfcT)

147 >>Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (qgHp7)

Know examples in the family. Once the for-profit organisations took over medicine, and the ACA promoted this, it was inevitable.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (NcvvS)

148 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.

Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (qgHp7)

149 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they "sucked", he said, inhaling swiftly...

Heh

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (XuXeR)

150 He was the sacrificial lamb.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 03, 2026 01:38 PM (K3Fc+)


Romney intended to win (he'd basically been running for President for 20 years before actually getting on the ballot). Problem was, that since he was born with a silver spoon shoved up his ass, he expected to coast to victory, ascending on a staircase covered in rose petals, with the choir angelic sweetly singing "God Bless The USA" over the background music of Handel and rainbows arcing over him.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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I think the Big Cheat by Dems was in operation in 2012 after being worked upon and perfected from 2010-2012. Chocolate Jesus and his evil sidekick Eric Holder, Brennan, and other thoroughly disgusting human beings like Pelosi and Reid cheat and lie as they breathe.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (E4rtv)

151 The only upside would have been that he would not have been required to pay capital gains on it, which is still not a good compensation for the loss.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:48 PM (rbvCR)


On the contrary (if that is true), it is an absolutely spectacular deal!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (n9ltV)

152 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.

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😂😂

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (GD0B3)

153 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

Yeah I was very not impressed. Part of it is presentism: the tech he talks about was probably really cool at the time but is extremely simple and old now so it lacks any real interest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (El6/E)

154 One personal quirk I have with reading Tolkien and other works of a similar sort is when there is prose in verse my mind keeps searches for a tune, rhythm and melody, but comes up short. I wish he wrote little scores for it all, that would help. But it results in me just scanning through the poetry parts. That's my problem with poetry generally, I need it put to music. I need a soundtrack and then I'd be fine.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (3uBP9)

155 re 129 etc: so how long before the supreme court lets us down again?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (CWTWj)

156 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

157 A person robs a bank and gives the money to his kids, do the kids get to keep the money?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (XV/Pl)

No but if they rob the Treasury, they and the kids all do.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (mWRBW)

158 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits.
Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (qgHp7)
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Lotho Sackville-Baggins hardest hit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (ESVrU)

159 My New Year resolution was to eliminate all bad hobbits."

Just throw them down a well...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (XuXeR)

160 Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (iJfKG)


Banks' books get darker, since they start to look less at the silliness of post scarcity, and into the actions and motivations of the Minds, the ship-identities, and what they do when the organics are not around.
Against a Dark Background is a non-Culture stand alone, and a very fun book. To carry your idea further, it is the ultimate Jerry Cornelius style action-adventure wrapped around a deadly mystery

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (rbvCR)

161 sad news:

Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges is divorcing his wife after three years of marriage, TMZ reports.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (CWTWj)

162 Those Iraqi militias are crossing the border in little Toyota pickups.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (52ERr)

163 I tried to read Tom Swift books but they sucked so bad.

Yeah I was very not impressed. Part of it is presentism: the tech he talks about was probably really cool at the time but is extremely simple and old now so it lacks any real interest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM


In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (4NO2D)

164 Lotho Sackville-Baggins hardest hit."

Lobelia's back after the spoons.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (XuXeR)

165
I remember reading the Three Investigators and even started my own group as inspiration where we pretended to investigate crimes


Plenty of people sort of do this for real now with various forums that look into cold cases.

Obviously most of the time it comes to not, but every now and then some civvie finds something to solve one of them...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (sKqQm)

166 @162

>>Those Iraqi militias are crossing the border in little Toyota pickups.

Pickups you cannot get in The US.

Lucky bastards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (XV/Pl)

167 The founders created a constitution that was designed for moral people. While a noble sentiment, that was a mistake.

Perhaps they couldn't see a time when the US would not be a country full of moral people yet here we are. People who hate this country will take any phrase in the Constitution that is not explicitly worded and seek to change the meaning to whatever they want it to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

168 Would be good A-10 gun practice

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (Ia/+0)

169 I've started my pretty hardback copy of the Hobbit and am up to Rivendell. My pretty hardback LOTR will be harder since its bound in one volume. I got them a long time ago.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (8avO+)

170 @144

>>That's my line.

Well, if you're going to steal, steal from the best.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (XV/Pl)

171 "How's reading the entire thing out loud to my kids sit on the commitment scale? "

I read "Ben-Hur" and other books to my wife.

Piker.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (qFwJc)

172 it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI [Universal Basic Income] is already here.

basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc
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They have plans. Here they are. The first half of the article may seem irrelevant, but stay with it:
https://shorturl.at/xL9fo

Exerpt: " In a best-case scenario, World ID could be a privacy-preserving way to fortify the Internet against an AI-driven deluge of fake or deceptive content. It could also enable the distribution of universal basic income (UBI)—a policy that Altman has previously touted—as AI automation transforms the global economy. "

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (XeU6L)

173 In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

Predicting the future is hard.

Not much SF for example would have predicted just how powerful modern computers are and how they are connected through the internet, but most seemed to think we've have space bases and robots doing most of the physical work...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

174 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:49 PM (IG3/x)

Stopping Obama was a worthy exercise. But those two turds, my God. At least you can say you voted for Palin.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:56 PM (mWRBW)

175 > Diff’rent Strokes star Todd Bridges is divorcing his wife after three years of marriage, TMZ reports.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (CWTWj)

He's still alive? I guess that means he's the last main cast member standing?

The story I heard is that Michael Landon wouldn't let the Little House kids play with the Diff’rent Strokes kids.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:56 PM (IG3/x)

176 A line of little Toyota pickup trucks?

Where is an A10 wort hog when you need one?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 01:56 PM (qFwJc)

177 I told pete to fuck off until Tuesday. He ignored me. He is now gone and permanently banned.

He posted again from a VPN on that thread after this thread started, by the way.

Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

178 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

She and her staff are idiots, that's all. Allegiance has nothing to do about if a foreign government can slap you in the slammer for breaking laws there.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

179 Dana Plato certainly was a train wreck

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)

180 I had my eyes dilatated for an eye exam. It's been two hours and things are still blurry. So my spelling might be crappier than my default crappy level.

I'm giving multifocal contacts a try again. My first time I hated them but I think a lot of it was coming to grips with turning 29 and getting presbyopia as people do on their 29th birthday. I just generally was very grumpy and pissed about it all back then but I'm going to try now with a more open mind about expectations.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

181 Exerpt: " In a best-case scenario, World ID could be a privacy-preserving way to fortify the Internet against an AI-driven deluge of fake or deceptive content.

I've got a better way to deal with this. Start executing hackers, spammers, and scammers nightly and broadcast it.

Remember when COVID came and India closed their call centers most of that stuff went away over night so honestly it wouldn't be very hard to do if the powers that be wanted to...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

182 Plenty of people sort of do this for real now with various forums that look into cold cases.

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4Chan I think has the best record, there's nothing quite like a power group of people with aspergers getting together to solve even the most perplexing of crimes

My personal favorite was when they tormented Shiba LeBeouf with his retarded unity "flag" when Trump started his first term, by constantly figuring out where he was despite his best efforts to evade them

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 03, 2026 01:58 PM (REq0p)

183 Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

You can't create a Constitution for an immoral people. A paradox.

So they solved it by saying "hey btw every now and again you're gonna need to reset this shit, see: #2"

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:58 PM (mWRBW)

184 If you haven't read the Hobbit yet, let me recommend it vigorously.

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No. I shall not let you.

You may only recommend it languidly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (hAotW)

185 Re: The Big Cheat being implemented in 2012 - recall that Obama hired one of the Facebook founders to run his online outreach in 2012. The guy built a fabulous interface with facebook that allowed people to organize, fundraiser, GOTF using existing followers, etc. very effective. Also used it to datamine the heck out of all these activities.

Four years later Trump used another tech company for similar activities and it was considered fraudulent and bad.

They know how you’ll vote based on the algorithms that also know what books on Amazon you’ll like, etc. Obama seemed to be the first to use that tech to pinpoint which counties could swing a swing state his way. In 2012 he won all of them. No need for massive fraud when you can simply select the few key spots.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (4KUe5)

186 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

The way I heard tell is that when some Senator (author?) was contemporarily asked what was the meaning of "jurisdiction" he framed the meaning in terms of allegiance to the country in question, where some foreigner, who did not owe allegiance to a country, such as a diplomat, as one example, was not subject to the jurisdiction.

The way I read "born," is that it applied to the problematic population then in question, slaves, here, already born, whereas naturalization was a necessary inclusion in the clause, because it dealt with those here thereafter (passage of the Amendment), who sought to become citizens through legal process (e.g., pledging allegiance).

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

187 In A.E. vanVoght sci-fi they have tractor and plasma beams and interplanetary travel, but the scientists still use sliderulers.

People are often the least speculative about things they personally know the best. You see it all the time in science fiction. It's why Gay Star Trek has a full-on Starbucks on the ship when replicators are a well established thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (2ocoG)

188 >>> Dana Plato certainly was a train wreck
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (Ia/+0)

Poor girl. She had a shockingly beautiful smile.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (3uBP9)

189 Don't blame Obama for all the hospice and day care fraudsters who stole and are stealing billions. Blame those idiots who voted for him. All greedy bastards who wanted something free from uncle sam. A house, gas for the car, free health care, all from Obama's stash.

Posted by: Hope and Change at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (jRlwL)

190 Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM


*strokes chinwhiskers thoughtfully*

That would be pretty insidious if true.

I'm lucky to such a confused mash of inconsistent opinions and a tedious writing style that no one can imitate my fist.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (4NO2D)

191 Hobbit?
No Tolkien negros?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (Kt19C)

192 People who hate this country will take any phrase in the Constitution that is not explicitly worded and seek to change the meaning to whatever they want it to be.

The ironic thing? The left is pretending that the wording is "obvious" and that it is originalist and conservative to believe this forces birthright citizenship. They are acting like it is conservatives who believe in the "living constitution" now. It is infuriating, and they simply disregard anyone who points out otherwise.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (El6/E)

193 You may only recommend it languidly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (hAotW)

That is prudent.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 02:01 PM (dK+Kv)

194 That Ent needs to do a bit of landscaping. That's an impressive bush.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 03, 2026 02:01 PM (bCbsU)

195 On the contrary (if that is true), it is an absolutely spectacular deal!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (n9ltV)


It is if you are the CEO of a major bank or hedge fund and can cash out, not if you have to dump 8 billion in a month and lose up to half the value in a fire sale, or like the companies and want to remain in charge of them.

Congress set up those rules (I am told) so the richest would not be excluded financially from being chosen for cabinet positions, and it is one of the reasons such positions are such a plum.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 02:01 PM (rbvCR)

196 Having that right at hand backs up my feeling that he's being paid for this, and may not even be the same Pete we remember.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (2ocoG)

He is 100% certifiably the same Pete. Without a shred of doubt. Doesn't mean someone can't come back NOW and shit stir with that name but the ones from the last two weeks is the same dude back to gloat because things *finally* look bad for Trump again. Pathetic.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:01 PM (mWRBW)

197 178 And while we're at it, is there some legal meaning of the word "allegiance" beyond the colloquial? You are subject to the laws of the jurisdiction, but do you owe allegiance to the current local government? Are foreign visitors taking oaths of fealty to Donald Trump?

Dafuq is Doobie Huxtable ramblin' about?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 01:52 PM (w/O5Q)

She and her staff are idiots, that's all. Allegiance has nothing to do about if a foreign government can slap you in the slammer for breaking laws there.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (8avO+)

Thanks for confirmation. Often when I'm completely certain someone is just a dumbass, I have to circle back and check if I'm the dumbass. Like I must be missing something.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 02:02 PM (w/O5Q)

198 No Tolkien negros?"

On it!

/amazon

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 02:02 PM (XuXeR)

199 Gandalf fell into the abyss; Gimli & frodo looking at the stars in Durin's pool.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 02:02 PM (MIIRH)

200 yay no mo Pete

I am happy

btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL

I was so dubious about people saying she is not well but now ... that lady is not well. damn. what happened to her?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (j+aD2)

201

Do ya'll remember the site that showed the names of people who donated to ActBlue, I think?

Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.

We have never given those assholes money.

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (3ek7K)

202 Shia Lebouef is one messed up guy - but he was a child actor so he probably had a bunch of directors/producers have their way with him.

He was in a music video a few years ago by someone named Sia

In the video he and a preteen girl are dressed in flesh colored body suits in a cage and they wrestle.

The FNM tells me it was meant to show how girls wrestle with their fears, because I'm sure the average 12 year old girl thinks of her fears as a naked adult man or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

203 200 btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL

I was so dubious about people saying she is not well but now ... that lady is not well. damn. what happened to her?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (j+aD2)

======

I thought that lady was on death's door in 2017 at Trump's inauguration.

Whatever counter-donut regimen she's on seems to work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (hAotW)

204 >>You can't create a Constitution for an immoral people. A paradox.

You can. You need to be a lot more definitive in your writing.

The Court spent a huge portion of the oral arguments on the question of what does "and subject to the jurisdiction of" actually mean. I don't they ever considered the question would be left in the hands of a sub-retard who thinks having her purse stolen in Tokyo means she's really turning Japanese.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

205 201

Do ya'll remember the site that showed the names of people who donated to ActBlue, I think?

Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.

We have never given those assholes money.

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (3ek7K)

======

Probably Open Secrets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (hAotW)

206 No Tolkien negros?

Ahem.

Posted by: Warriors of the Far Harad on their Elephants at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (4NO2D)

207 btw saw a clip of Sotomayor being an idiot

she looks AWFUL


The left is crowing about how she OWNED president Trump so badly he had to sneak out of the session in shame.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (El6/E)

208
Predicting the future is hard.

Not much SF for example would have predicted just how powerful modern computers are and how they are connected through the internet, but most seemed to think we've have space bases and robots doing most of the physical work...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 01:55 PM (sKqQm)

In Poul Anderson's "Brain Wave" Earth leaves a zone of space that inhibits mental function and all life on earth has an immediate spike in brain function. At one point a crew, having solved the simple issues of building an interstellar craft test it out and fly through a lobe of the 'dumb zone' and being reduced to normal intelligence can't operate their ship since their control systems rely on every crewman being able to do insane mathematical calculations in their head. Lucky for them they manage to exit the area on momentum after a bit.

A story called "A Logic Named Joe" the world has a PC like internet and one of the PCs gains sentience. This might be fine but he decides to go in the advice business out of boredom and starts giving completely amoral advice like how to kill a redhead wife tracelessly.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (8avO+)

209 I would suggest following "Open Source Intel" on X (Osint613). Osint Defender not as reliable because he has TDS and it colors his coverage.

Posted by: Brian at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (6Ydsu)

210 Doesn't mean someone can't come back NOW and shit stir with that name but the ones from the last two weeks is the same dude back to gloat because things *finally* look bad for Trump again. Pathetic.

Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

211 210 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

======

Ass will drop his droppings and leave on almost any thread.

But threads about Indians?

He'll stick around and engage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (hAotW)

212 The FNM tells me it was meant to show how girls wrestle with their fears, because I'm sure the average 12 year old girl thinks of her fears as a naked adult man or something.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (sKqQm)

A naked Shia LeBoof scares me and I'm not a 12 year old girl.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

213 Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

"Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."

-Karl Popper

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (mWRBW)

214 In Poul Anderson's "Brain Wave" Earth leaves a zone of space that inhibits mental function and all life on earth has an immediate spike in brain function.

A great story.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (4NO2D)

215 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.


agree

he was a paid troll/moby/shit stirrer whatever

meanwhile - PDJT left when he did bc he was there to watch our guys argue before the court. not that ACLU hack woman bloviate.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (j+aD2)

216 I read both the Three Investigators and the Hardy Boys. I liked the Three Investigators better because they were a Power Trio where each character had strengths and weaknesses. Frank and Joe Hardy were basically clones.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
===
Yep.

Frank and Joe had the classic old brother, junior brother going on. Nancy Drew did not rely on a sidekick although she had friends. I seem to remember that the father in both the Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew also played a much bigger part than the parents in the Three Investigators.
Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

In a lot of the books "world renowned detective Fenton Hardy (aka Dad)" would pop up and help save the day at the end... although in a few books, the boys saved their father. I think Dixon (a penname IIRC) recycled the same few plots over and over again, but I didn't notice as a kid

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (xT8gx)

217 >>Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

Wore eyeglasses for enough years to put my 29-ness in doubt. Switched to contacts and had no problems. For about 15 years. Optometrist offered 1) multifocal versus ii) one-close-one far versus C) far & reading glasses. Took option 3 - decades of having lenses perched on my face made it no problem. YMMY.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (NcvvS)

218 The Court spent a huge portion of the oral arguments on the question of what does "and subject to the jurisdiction of" actually mean. I don't they ever considered the question would be left in the hands of a sub-retard who thinks having her purse stolen in Tokyo means she's really turning Japanese.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

Her analogy was her stealing someone's wallet, not her wallet being stolen.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (8avO+)

219 No Tolkien negros?

More has come out about the upcoming DEI Harry Potter with black Snape: the kids in Slytherin are all dot-Indians. That's... a choice I guess.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (2ocoG)

220 TJM! you're back!

woo hoo!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (j+aD2)

221 Right now there are people on social media wishing for the downed pilots to be captured.

If you didn’t already believe liberals are at war with the rest of the country, you should now. The rubicon hasn’t just been crossed, it’s been drained.

Right now most polls show Democrats not just taking the House but the senate. They haven’t promised an agenda. They’ve promised an active subversion of the country using the government and our corrupt court system as their punishment machine.

You should be very worried, enough that not only will you walk over broken glass to vote, but you’ll drag two people with you.

That’s not hyperbole. Look around you.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (UMWMT)

222 Hubby and I still pissed that his name is on the site saying he donated many times to the Demoncrats.
We have never given those assholes money.
Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:03 PM (3ek7K)


File an amended tax return claiming those donations as a write off. The IRS may come after you, but the IRS will have to prove that YOU did not donate the contributions.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (rbvCR)

223 Her analogy was her stealing someone's wallet, not her wallet being stolen.


which is frankly hilarious

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (j+aD2)

224 " I've only read through LOTR completely twice. (And the first time I did a lot of skimming.)"

I started reading it in highschool, but I wasn't interested, it was way to heavy in the prose, and I just didn't have time for that when all I wanted to do was scope some boob, though I had already read The Hobbit in grade school. I would comment about "The Hobbit" "it's only like 120 pages if you remove the smoking of pipes and singing of songs that you just don't get anyway."

As for TLotR, I read it for the first time, I know exactly when it was October of 1997, while I was in the brig, and I read it twice while in the brigg. It took being imprisoned for me to get over my initial judgment and read one of "the great western novels" or whatever.

I liked it, Not the brigg, the books, and if it weren't for the brigg I would have bothered getting around to reading the books, so make of that whatever you will for divine intervention.

Posted by: wickedpinto at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (dJrj2)

225 Both Moorcock's and Banks' takes on end-time-ish, post- scarcity societies are interesting and generally fun reads.

If it sounds like that will interest you, it will.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 01:43 PM (iJfKG)

Banks' books get darker, since they start to look less at the silliness of post scarcity, and into the actions and motivations of the Minds, the ship-identities, and what they do when the organics are not around.
Against a Dark Background is a non-Culture stand alone, and a very fun book. To carry your idea further, it is the ultimate Jerry Cornelius style action-adventure wrapped around a deadly mystery
Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:53 PM (rbvCR)


Thanks for the recommendation. I'll give AaDB a read.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (iJfKG)

226 One thing I think hasn't been well explored in fiction is that if we ever do develop AI its thinking would likely be alien to our own - not the green/blue eyed buddy Jesus type that solves all our problems through pure logic nor the red eyed Skynet/Allied Mastercomputer

And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (sKqQm)

227 One interesting topic related to Tolkien is the modern trend, I only started noticing this in the past 10 years, is for opposing sides in East Europe, Russian wars to call the other orks. It is quite common online. And I don't remember ork ever being a taunt or slur in the past.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 02:08 PM (3uBP9)

228 my absolutely non-donating MIL was on that act blue list, a zillion times, it was funny

we told her and she was PROUD to be used in such a way

so charming, liberals! full of integrity

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:09 PM (j+aD2)

229 6 Willowed:

May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (0sNs1)

The Power of Positive Thinking

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 02:09 PM (fNISR)

230 And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.


which is covered in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons pretty well

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 02:09 PM (j+aD2)

231 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

Excellent. At least I have something to go to. The word salad that fell out of her pie hole was not enlightening.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 02:09 PM (w/O5Q)

232 Kindletot politcal donations are not deductible, otherwise that would be a good plan.

Posted by: PaleRider at April 03, 2026 02:10 PM (+89TD)

233 And I suspect its actions wouldn't make a ton of sense to us.

That is one of my favorite parts of Dark Star (Carpenter's first major film). The alien makes no sense, its actions are just random and inscrutable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (El6/E)

234 > I think Dixon (a penname IIRC) recycled the same few plots over and over again, but I didn't notice as a kid
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (xT8gx)

A "house name", used by many different writers. Same with Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins...

The publisher owned the name and the series, and would hire whoever worked cheap.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (IG3/x)

235 More has come out about the upcoming DEI Harry Potter with black Snape: the kids in Slytherin are all dot-Indians. That's... a choice I guess.

Harry Potter is nominally set in our modern world or one like it so having non-Euro characters doesn't bother me much though blackwashing Snape is ridiculous.

But LotR? Gondor and most of the main map are set in medieval Europe so yes everyone should be white.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (sKqQm)

236 >>Posted by: banana Dream at April 03, 2026 01:57 PM (3uBP9)

Wore eyeglasses for enough years to put my 29-ness in doubt. Switched to contacts and had no problems. For about 15 years. Optometrist offered 1) multifocal versus ii) one-close-one far versus C) far & reading glasses. Took option 3 - decades of having lenses perched on my face made it no problem. YMMY.
Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 02:07 PM (NcvvS)

My latest contacts are set to be perfect for computer monitor distance and I had reading glasses and distance glasses. I got enough cheap ones to have one at most all places in the house I sit or lie down. The most current set is good enough so distance glasses aren't needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (8avO+)

237 I take it The Hound of the Baskervilles has been finished.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (zg83K)

238 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 02:05 PM (2ocoG)

======

Ass will drop his droppings and leave on almost any thread.

But threads about Indians?

He'll stick around and engage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (hAotW)
_______

[Perks up]

-- General Custer

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

239 Long read its a scam the Democrats used getting dark money then pin it on real people

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (Ia/+0)

240 What is amazing to me as a RN case manager of 10yrs...how did this go on for so long?

As a case manager, responsible for many things, but discharge was one, we had a list of real rehabs, nursing homes, home health care, and hospice facilities. Patients or families were given these lists to choose from. We then contacted a rep to come see the patient before discharge.

Of course these were not on lists, so that makes sense. But to have an entire building, in a country of capitialism, of nothing but these fake businesses is mind boggling.

I suppose no one noticed and/or reported it because they were skimming $ from the top as well.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (WONhk)

241

The crossword I do every morning had a clue which the answer is KALE!!!

Has Piper influenced every site, LOL?

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (3ek7K)

242 Surfed the remote past "They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard" last night. Had to resist the urge to rewind/replay a dozen times.

Posted by: DaveA at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (FhXTo)

243 >>>237 I take it The Hound of the Baskervilles has been finished.

one of these days, at least.

Posted by: ace who still doesn't know who the Hound of the Baskervilles was at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (1wjle)

244 Right, but the fact that he didn't even attempt to troll on threads that weren't explicitly about Iran is a commitment to a specific subject that you never see from, say, ASS or Sid.
-------

Pete quietly disappeared after being outrageously self-assuredly bugfuck wrong about the 2016 election - and I mean so quietly that I was one of the few who noticed - then came back briefly to gloat sometime after Trump "lost" in 2020 because he was finally proven "right". Coming in now as him in a manner completely consistent with the personality, and acting just like he did in 2016 and briefly after 2020, would be a level of commitment and weirdness that even our trolls don't possess.

The fact that the behavior didn't persist across threads could be testimony that it wasn't "just" a random person trying to sully his good quietly disappearing name.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (mWRBW)

245

Laura Ingraham had a section of her show against birthright citizenship and then cut to a spot sponsored by the ACLU in favor of it.

https://youtu.be/aNe4E-uynfg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2026 02:13 PM (Cqx++)

246 I read a story once where the protagonist was a Spanish Civil War Lincoln Brigade type commie who was somehow, I didn't remember how, frozen or something until he was awakened in the far future where socialism had been triumphant and all of man's material needs and desires were free.

It was a from a disaster from his POV. Everyone just got high and fucked like bunnies in all possible configurations. Science had stopped advancing because no one even cared anymore. IIRC, he ended up taking a spacecraft that had been built like a century earlier but never flown because no one cared enough to take it out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 02:13 PM (4NO2D)

247 i doubt obama was really responsible for anything, he seemed like he enjoyed the privileges of the office like partying with celebrities much more than actually doing work.

but i suspect his advisers were very good at planting ideas in his half empty head and then convincing him that he had thought of all those things by his own self. he probably didn't need anyone telling him to not talk back to moochelle

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 02:14 PM (CWTWj)

248 Long read its a scam the Democrats used getting dark money then pin it on real people

I think the way it goes is that some Dem money man gets a bank of accounts and then funnel the money through them.

I liked at the patterns of some of the deposits and it makes little sense otherwise - small amount of money on irregular time periods...so it isn't like someone sending $7 every paycheck.

But if my take is right it suddenly makes sense. Our Dem money man has 1000 Act Blue accounts to launder money through. Today he got $7000 so each account donatess $7. Four days later he gets $20000 so every account donates $20 and so on...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:14 PM (sKqQm)

249 Thanks for confirmation. Often when I'm completely certain someone is just a dumbass, I have to circle back and check if I'm the dumbass. Like I must be missing something.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 03, 2026 02:02 PM (w/O5Q)

You can change your default thinking so that when a leftist says something stupid, they actually are stupid. Saves time and is 100 percent accurate.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:15 PM (8avO+)

250 The real suckers and losers are the dedicated Americans who believed all that bullshit about working hard, keeping your head down, coloring inside the lines, being honest, having integrity, and making sacrifices now for the possibility of gain down the road. All we did was fuel this fraud machine.

Posted by: Feeling very angry about it right now at April 03, 2026 02:15 PM (TbWk/)

251 re 243: i read a lot of sherlock holmes stuff years ago. liked the basil rathbone movies, too

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 02:16 PM (CWTWj)

252 The real suckers and losers are the dedicated Americans who believed all that bullshit about working hard, keeping your head down, coloring inside the lines, being honest, having integrity, and making sacrifices now for the possibility of gain down the road. All we did was fuel this fraud machine.

I must confess when I'm in line behind someone paying via EBT I compare what they are buying with my own choices.

Of course then every so often they get told their card is maxed out and produce a second EBT card which is almost certainly illegal...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM (sKqQm)

253 Two things piss me off:
1) I'm out here working like a sucker, when I could have stolen millions from the Feds.
2) I also have a moral fiber that prevents me from engaging in such fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM (HXT0k)

254 Listening to Hobbit

https://archive.org/details/
TheHobbitAudiobook

The singing is lame compared to the movie. The voice actors are ok.

Posted by: DaveA at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM (FhXTo)

255
Foreshadowing, I believe this is called:

They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM (xG4kz)

256 All the Slytherine kids are Indian, and its head a black?

Hoo boy, they are setting up Harry and friends to be totally racists, and Harry being part Slytherin as, what, biracial?

I’ve only read the books once, not a super fan, but they’ve either not considered the downstream effects of these casting choices, or they are going to make the good guys white supremists and the bad guys misunderstood victims.

Yiiiiikes. They hate JK.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (4KUe5)

257 new updated:

"Israeli Channel 12 reports: Both F‑15E crew members ejected safely. The pilot has been located and rescued, while the navigator made contact later and is still being searched for.."

I don't know how reliable Iraeli Channel 12 is, though. But good news. Navigator is not unconscious.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (GD0B3)

258 There is another form of fraud besides the bogus hospice/childcare/learing center types. I call this soft fraud and it is baked into the Obamacare cake.

Doctors, clinics and hospitals are incentivized to milk $$$ out of Obamacare via such actions as up-coding office visits and defaulting things such as follow-up visit frequency and testing to the point of unnecessary visits and tests that then become the "standard of care".

I can cite examples from personal experience
Posted by: muldoon at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (qgHp7)


Sooo much this. Plus, threatening non-action by the patient with a "potential" health problem like pre-diabetes.

I've been pre-diabetic since the Obama years.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (g8Ew8)

259 I suppose no one noticed and/or reported it because they were skimming $ from the top as well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (WONhk)

Reversing cause and effect. The people in the agencies supervising and their political bosses directed the immigrants to set these orgs up to defraud them and take cuts. It is the only explanation how these flakes weren't instantly caught years ago. Any examination or inspection pops the balloon as we have seen twice now, in Minn and CA.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (8avO+)

260 Is Disinformation Expert Ace going to become Open Source Intelligence Officer Ace?

Posted by: logprof at April 03, 2026 02:19 PM (GA1ux)

261 The crossword I do every morning had a clue which the answer is KALE!!!

Has Piper influenced every site, LOL?

Posted by: four seasons at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (3ek7K)

Don't let the chipper attitude and cutesy Shiba Inu stories fool you, she is 100% in the thrall of Big Kale.

Posted by: Green. Leafy. Sinister. at April 03, 2026 02:20 PM (TbWk/)

262 257 new updated:

"Israeli Channel 12 reports: Both F‑15E crew members ejected safely. The pilot has been located and rescued, while the navigator made contact later and is still being searched for.."

I don't know how reliable Iraeli Channel 12 is, though. But good news. Navigator is not unconscious.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (GD0B3)

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False.

Israel is now just glass.

AI slop on X told me so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:20 PM (hAotW)

263
I take it The Hound of the Baskervilles has been finished.


By all that is holy and for your own safety, never, ever pick up and read The Hound of the Longaberger Baskervilles

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 03, 2026 02:21 PM (xG4kz)

264 Things are going to get worse when Democrats win back the House and Senate.

Much worse.

Posted by: That Guy at April 03, 2026 02:21 PM (3arSl)

265 Doctors, clinics and hospitals are incentivized to milk $$$ out of Obamacare via such actions as up-coding office visits and defaulting things such as follow-up visit frequency and testing to the point of unnecessary visits and tests that then become the "standard of care".


The left has recently figured out that hospitals charge people with insurance differently then those without. They'll tell you its "unfair!"...well the ones with insurance will.

Every now and then I'll jump into one of those chats and point out that hospitals have to make up for people that can't pay by charging more to those that can...and since these leftists in question are those that can pay they should be proud they are paying more.

You'll be shocked to know they are not in fact proud and very insistent someone else should be paying their medical bills too

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 02:21 PM (sKqQm)

266 the kids in Slytherin are all dot-Indians. That's... a choice I guess.

The one picture shows a lot of kids being Indians in green robes, whether that's a real release or no I don't know. They aren't ALL Pushstart, but yeah if accurate its still ridiculous. The population of "Asians" as they call them in England was not very significant in the 1990s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 02:21 PM (El6/E)

267 Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (4KUe5)

They will probably make Harry confused, with his only satisfaction to be found in "choosing" to be whatever he wants to be.

Just throwing that at the wall. They couldn't possibly be that obvious though.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (mWRBW)

268 As much as I love LoTR I've recently been reading a lot on Rhodesia and the communist backed insurgency that ended it. It was a truly merit based and run government but the commies couldn't abide that and the West back-stabbed them - primarily Britain and it's communist/socialist Labour Party and of course Jimmy Hapless Incompetent Carter.


The story haunts me and I see it's fate as prophetic as to what's happening to us.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (2bnFA)

269 >>Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:11 PM (8avO+)

Good plan. My monitor is big enough that reading it is possible with or without cheaters, but bedtime reading will be contacts + cheaters or multifocal (and old) eyeglasses.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

270 I suppose no one noticed and/or reported it because they were skimming $ from the top as well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (WONhk)

I worked in a building here in CA that had quite a few of these hospices in it. Never saw a soul in the hallways from them in years. Other businesses, saw folks all the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (8avO+)

271 Sooo much this. Plus, threatening non-action by the patient with a "potential" health problem like pre-diabetes.

I've been pre-diabetic since the Obama years.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:18 PM (g8Ew

The entire population is pre-terminal.

Posted by: Life is a sexually transmitted fatal condition at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (TbWk/)

272 >>> Obama-Biden Have Implemented Stealth Communism

Stealthy, like rubbing its ass on your face non-stop for years.
And shameless racism and race mongering.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (/lPRQ)

273 OT: Speaking of capitalism, this is the weekend to swing by a few stores for total protein fill ups. Whether it's a spiral ham, a semi-boneless leg of lamb, a beef rib roast, or dozens of eggs ($1.24 at Target with their deal - amazing) or all the Lenten frozen fish they didn't sell, stores are clearancing the priciest items for most folks dinners - the main proteins...produce deals aren't great, but if you have a freezer, it's a good time to be a buyer...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 02:23 PM (tOcjL)

274 As much as I love LoTR I've recently been reading a lot on Rhodesia and the communist backed insurgency that ended it. It was a truly merit based and run government but the commies couldn't abide that and the West back-stabbed them - primarily Britain and it's communist/socialist Labour Party and of course Jimmy Hapless Incompetent Carter.


The story haunts me and I see it's fate as prophetic as to what's happening to us.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (2bnFA)

Carter did that to the Shah too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:23 PM (8avO+)

275 YOU CAN'T PUT A BOUNTY ON A MAN'S HEAD!!!!

Posted by: Joe McGrath at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (9CBNQ)

276 264 Things are going to get worse when Democrats win back the House and Senate.

Much worse.

Posted by: That Guy at April 03, 2026 02:21 PM (3arSl)

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The Democrats will probably win the House.

There is a roughly 0% chance they get the Senate.

They'd need to win ME (Collins was polling consistently 8 points behind in 2020...she won by 8 points), NC (Cooper can't get above 45% in a poll in a state he's supposedly popular in while being of the wrong party considering the voter registration changes), TX (HA!) and one more. All while holding onto GA (honestly, a sleeper of a dark horse) and MI (if that Muslim wins the primary, hoo boy).

So, noted dummy Jeffries gets a slim House majority to manage while Trump keeps the majority to approve appointments in the Senate.

Yeah...not the end of the world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (hAotW)

277 >>Has Piper influenced every site, LOL?

"She's everywhere, she's everywhere!"

/Dick Orkin

Posted by: Chickenwoman at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (NcvvS)

278 So China has women squeeze one out here, declare them an American citizen, the use them to sabotage our country. Courts protect them and claim birthright citizenship is right there on the constitution.

Got it.

The real enemy are the courts.

Posted by: That Guy at April 03, 2026 02:25 PM (3arSl)

279 Most Americans have no idea the level of fraud that is going on at all levels.
In so many different ways.

The cable news says nothing, so it's not happening.

And half of those who are getting any news that discusses it, still don't want to believe it--how far away from a high-trust society we've fallen.
Every event keeps getting dismissed as a one-off.

The most pernicious part is how all these new levels of fraud are specifically targeted at what used to be high-trust.
The things that we all used to just accept was largely immune to fraud. Or at least, large-scale fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (HXT0k)

280 Been wondering: Is Hail Mary good?

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (JCLJi)

281 36 I'm just now tackling The Count of Monte Cristo, another behemoth. One might think a book of that length (1200+) would have to have some fluff, some distractions and red herrings. Instead, every chapter that begins to look like it's heading in the direction of filler winds back into the intrigue.

I was also daunted by the prospect of reading chapter after chapter of dismal prison travails, but that episode is disposed with fairly quickly and is packed with the instruments of Daunte's revenge. Much recommend!
Posted by: spongeworthy at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (sLLbN)

As long as we're making this a book thread, I just finished David Hacket Fisher's 'Paul Revere's Ride' - which I think I saw mentioned here at AoSHq, and Shannon Bream's 'Nothing is Impossible with God'. Now I'm working on Dr. Marc Siegel's 'The Miracles among Us'.

Next in queue is The Hobbit.

Oh...and....BOOBS!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (QGaXH)

282 I haven't started, I am not even sure I can find my copies. I've read all the books, including the Book of Lost Tales. I really should try to find them.

This next part is willowed:
The midterms are already lost, but if this war can be wrapped up quickly, we have a chance of holding the White House in 2028.

Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (DMmvN)
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False. The democrats are polling at historically low levels of approval frm their own voters. This Iranian action will be done before summer. It will all be based upon the GOP passing the Save Act - this is a deal breaker for enough GOP voters, and how the economy moves back to the positive trend. Nothing has been decided. At the end of the day - the democrats have no issues to run on.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (GZYu7)

283 Magic bird.

https://is.gd/F8A8iQ

(Bird's flap rate coincides with ring camera's frame rate)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (ndZc7)

284 Carter did that to the Shah too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:23 PM (8avO+)


Precisely. And unleashed 50 years of terrorism on the West. And didn't that incompetent fucker also get a Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 02:27 PM (2bnFA)

285 One of my first literary memories is reading The Hobbit as a young lad, maybe 10 years old or so. At the time it felt like an accomplishment because it was a real actual novel and its length felt daunting.

Now, some large number of years later I picked it back up and realized that it's kind of a breezy beach-read kind of book and was just a good time.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:27 PM (oqH4h)

286 No matter how much I squint my eyes and what angle I look at it I just do not get "birthright citizenship" as having anything to do with the 14th Amendment.

Congress already had Constitutional authority to draft Legislation for Naturalization. So yeah, if Congress wrote a bill to Naturalize virtually anyone born in the US, and El Presidente signs it into law, OK.

And duel citizenship did not exist until after (and because of) the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 02:27 PM (/lPRQ)

287 In Mirkwood. Bombur is a little fat bitch. Fools leave the path.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:28 PM (bss/y)

288 Orion Update:

The astronauts forgot where they stored the electric shaver.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:28 PM (ESVrU)

289 Indians not taxed is pretty damning to the BRC argument.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 02:29 PM (4NO2D)

290 My sister has read Bored of the Rings but not LOTR. I told her that is a good idea if she wants to get the basic plot in about 120 pages instead of 1000, though of course there is no substitute for the original.

Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 03, 2026 02:29 PM (lY/NM)

291 False. The democrats are polling at historically low levels of approval frm their own voters. This Iranian action will be done before summer. It will all be based upon the GOP passing the Save Act - this is a deal breaker for enough GOP voters, and how the economy moves back to the positive trend. Nothing has been decided. At the end of the day - the democrats have no issues to run on.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (GZYu7)

I think the funding sources for liberal crazies are being crushed out on the downlow. By all accounts the Dem Party has few contributions these days.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:29 PM (8avO+)

292 Been wondering: Is Hail Mary good?
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:26 PM (JCLJi)

Ask Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson... also Nate Wright and Paul Krause for a slightly different perspective

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (xT8gx)

293 268 As much as I love LoTR I've recently been reading a lot on Rhodesia and the communist backed insurgency that ended it. It was a truly merit based and run government but the commies couldn't abide that and the West back-stabbed them - primarily Britain and it's communist/socialist Labour Party and of course Jimmy Hapless Incompetent Carter.


The story haunts me and I see it's fate as prophetic as to what's happening to us.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (2bnFA)
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Recommendation if you haven't yet: Three Sips of Gin by Timothy Bax.

A harrowing story told by a guy with way more of a sense of humor about it than any person should have.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (oqH4h)

294 >> Yeah...not the end of the world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (hAotW)

lol.

There are two parties with very stark differences. We see that every day. The Democrats basically want to do away with the republic and punish dissent using the government as their weapon. They want to steal taxpayer finds and give it to their supporters who will help undermine the country.

And you're saying that people voting to give Democrats the House isn’t a big deal. You couldn’t be more wrong. Republicans should be running away with this election. This shouldn’t even be close. The lack of Republicans voting and the sorry state of the GOP and their GOTV is pathetic.

Posted by: That Guy at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (3arSl)

295 My sister has read Bored of the Rings but not LOTR. I told her that is a good idea if she wants to get the basic plot in about 120 pages instead of 1000, though of course there is no substitute for the original.
Posted by: Norrin Radd, sojourner of the spaceways at April 03, 2026 02:29 PM (lY/NM)

You read LOTR to get more of the jokes in Bored of the Rings.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (8avO+)

296 Oh yeah, and the real anger at DOGE wasn't that it was rooting out and finding fraud:

It was that it was putting in place the tools to find fraud.

That's what the Dems had to stop.

All of this is hidden behind layers of authorizations, a maze of routings, intentional dead-ends and deflections, etc..

Having AI to sort and trace is what they had to stop at all costs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (HXT0k)

297 So, noted dummy Jeffries gets a slim House majority to manage while Trump keeps the majority to approve appointments in the Senate.

Yeah...not the end of the world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (hAotW)
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The House is a toss up. The VRA decision if it comes out in time will flip seats in the South - I think California's map has put a number of those districts at risk, especially if the Save Act passes. If the economy is humming, I think it will be tough for the dems to take it.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (GZYu7)

298 Finished The Hobbit last week. I've downloaded The Fellowship of the Ring but haven't started it yet. Maybe tonight. I have to say The Hobbit was as charming as I remember it from when I was in high school.

Posted by: Tuna at April 03, 2026 02:31 PM (lJ0H4)

299 288 Orion Update:

The astronauts forgot where they stored the electric shaver.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:28 PM (ESVrU)
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Christina is gonna have a hairy beav.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:32 PM (oqH4h)

300 Hail Mary Project is pretty good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 02:32 PM (52ERr)

301 Christina is gonna have a hairy beav.

You don't say

Posted by: Winona at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (sKqQm)

302 7 months is an ETERNITY in politics... I suspect, in the end, the midterms will be decided based on events that haven't even happened yet...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (xT8gx)

303 All of this is hidden behind layers of authorizations, a maze of routings, intentional dead-ends and deflections, etc..

Having AI to sort and trace is what they had to stop at all costs.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (HXT0k)

They had all that, but all Trump had to do was just stop it at the source, since none of those programs did anything sensible even as a sideline. The same will be true with these hospices. They can just tell all of them to reapply and inspect and when they fail, cut them off.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (8avO+)

304 I might end up getting banned at some point. That will be that.

If you get banned and come back on a VPN, that is some extremely-online, pathetic mentally ill loser shit to do.

Like, as in "take a nice hot bath with a toaster and put yourself out of your misery."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

305 294 And you're saying that people voting to give Democrats the House isn’t a big deal. You couldn’t be more wrong. Republicans should be running away with this election. This shouldn’t even be close. The lack of Republicans voting and the sorry state of the GOP and their GOTV is pathetic.

Posted by: That Guy at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (3arSl)

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Well, historical patterns show that out of power parties just perform better in midterms. It's how things happen.

Not even Obama's people could figure out how to reverse that.

What can a slim House majority do? Impeach Trump? Oh no. Another impeachment. Not even after 1/6 could the Senate find 67 Senators to kick Trump out of politics forever during his second impeachment trial.

Democrats coming up with bullshit for 6 months in hearings no one cares about and sending impeachment articles to the Senate,...controlled by Republicans, will lead to...what?

Come on. Not every election is the most important in the world.

2026 is honestly not very important.

2028 will be important. 2026? Not really, especially since border enforcement is fully funded through 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (hAotW)

306 So, noted dummy Jeffries gets a slim House majority to manage while Trump keeps the majority to approve appointments in the Senate.

Yeah...not the end of the world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:24 PM (hAotW)
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The House is a toss up. The VRA decision if it comes out in time will flip seats in the South - I think California's map has put a number of those districts at risk, especially if the Save Act passes. If the economy is humming, I think it will be tough for the dems to take it.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (GZYu7)
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Very tough to make House predictions due to the uncertainty of redistricting. I think the end result will be a narrow majority for one of the parties. Far too many of these seats are totally noncompetitive, which is one of the reasons why the House -- both parties -- mostly doesn't give a shit about its voters.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

307 james carville smells like gollum

Posted by: Aragorn Shagnasti at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (jrgJz)

308 Many Democrat/ Marxists have stated they are going after President Trump and people for war crimes and BS

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (Ia/+0)

309 Ask Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson... also Nate Wright and Paul Krause for a slightly different perspective
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (xT8gx)

I could, but I figured since Ace said he has (and maybe some others have) seen the movie...

But I probably should know better than to ask anything here.

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (JCLJi)

310 297 The House is a toss up. The VRA decision if it comes out in time will flip seats in the South - I think California's map has put a number of those districts at risk, especially if the Save Act passes. If the economy is humming, I think it will be tough for the dems to take it.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (GZYu7)

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If VRA Section 2 (or Gingles) is undone next week, the number of states that will redraw in time for 2026 will be 1-2. Not many, and it'll affect like 3 seats.

It won't be a huge change. It'll be a greater effect for 2028.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (hAotW)

311 302 7 months is an ETERNITY in politics... I suspect, in the end, the midterms will be decided based on events that haven't even happened yet...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (xT8gx)

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I was told that Republicans would lose everything in 2026 unless Trump fired Hegseth for Signalgate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (hAotW)

312 The House is a toss up. The VRA decision if it comes out in time will flip seats in the South - I think California's map has put a number of those districts at risk, especially if the Save Act passes. If the economy is humming, I think it will be tough for the dems to take it.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:30 PM (GZYu7)

CA has been pro DEM gerrymandered for a long time. I wonder if bending them to get the last bit won't backfire since the first gerrymander was to make all the districts SAFE for both parties.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (8avO+)

313 Some people call me the space plumber, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (ndZc7)

314 I don't lile this "paid to stay home and take care of family" attack.

Paying people to stay home with a severely disabled relative is a cost-saving device.

We have a friend in her 80s who home-cares her severly-disabled daughter. She is paid around $25/hr for probably 20-30 hrs/wk.
If that daughter were in a group home, the home would be paid far, far more for someone who requires this level of care. An in-home living company would be paid even more and a a state facility would be astronomically expensive.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (0MjtC)

315 I get the Veteran's Administrations OIG reports of fraud in my inbox at work. Yesterday I received one detailing several cases that have been successfully prosecuted. Mind you, I receive these weekly.

Some of the headlines:

• The former Executive Director of the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization (OEHRM) was recently indicted for alleged failure to disclose his receipt of thousands of dollars in cash, casino chips, gift cards, and other gifts from contractors while leading this $16 billion project.

• The nephew of a quadriplegic veteran, who was supposedly residing with and providing care for his uncle, was sentenced to 156 months’ imprisonment after concealing his uncle's death for several years and stealing over $1.8 million of the veteran’s VA and Social Security benefits.

• The owner of a barbering and cosmetology school was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution to VA of approximately $2.9 million after being found guilty by a federal jury of enrolling veterans in classes without providing any actual instruction or training.

To be continued...

Posted by: Cheri at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (oiNtH)

316 304 I might end up getting banned at some point. That will be that.

If you get banned and come back on a VPN, that is some extremely-online, pathetic mentally ill loser shit to do.

Like, as in "take a nice hot bath with a toaster and put yourself out of your misery."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

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CBD almost banned me once.

I posted the entire comment thread in a single comment.

Twice.

In the same morning.

Oh, pre-character limit days...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (hAotW)

317 I could, but I figured since Ace said he has (and maybe some others have) seen the movie...

But I probably should know better than to ask anything here.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (JCLJi)
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Ace had a post on it a couple days ago.

I think the consensus is that it was fun and free of the typical woke garbage for the most part.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (oqH4h)

318 Like, as in "take a nice hot bath with a toaster and put yourself out of your misery."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

And it doesn't even work because your outlets are GFCI equipped.

Posted by: Even sadder still at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (TbWk/)

319 Like, as in "take a nice hot bath with a toaster and put yourself out of your misery."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (BI5O2)

ace is usually overly forgiving. You really have to earn it. Unless he's hangry.

CBD is a bit more 'See the threat, Hammer the threat. Nap.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (bss/y)

320 I watched it on my phone. O K. Project Hail Mary. Not sure it would be worth paying for.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (52ERr)

321 As has been noted recently, the Democrats and MSM tell us a foreigner who’s been here 15 minutes is owed citizenship, while heritage Americans are occupying “stolen land.”
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Part of their endless racism

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (/lPRQ)

322 Continued...

• A drug and alcohol rehabilitation center agreed to pay $19.75 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled VA using a variety of schemes, including billing for treatments not provided, while failing to provide high-quality care to veterans by qualified clinicians.
• A defendant pleaded guilty to stealing VA compensation benefits totaling approximately $225,000 intended for an elderly veteran who was unable to manage his own money.
• A charity founder and four employees submitted falsified documentation as part of a pension application fraud scheme, costing VA $20 million, and improperly demanded payments from veterans for pension benefits for which they were not actually entitled.

Posted by: Cheri at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (oiNtH)

323 This doesn't sound like the gay African Communist I know!

Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (ssz2a)

324 I could, but I figured since Ace said he has (and maybe some others have) seen the movie...

But I probably should know better than to ask anything here.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:34 PM (JCLJi)

the reviewers I respect have said its all right. So its probably fine.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (8avO+)

325 306 Very tough to make House predictions due to the uncertainty of redistricting. I think the end result will be a narrow majority for one of the parties. Far too many of these seats are totally noncompetitive, which is one of the reasons why the House -- both parties -- mostly doesn't give a shit about its voters.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

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Waves won't come back until after 2030, at the earliest.

10-15 seat majorities are now the maximum possible until 2032.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (hAotW)

326 Twice.

In the same morning.

Oh, pre-character limit days...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (hAotW)

On your phone?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (bss/y)

327 Ace, if you want fast 'n' cheeky Tolkien, read the novelette "Farmer Giles of Ham". Farmer Giles goes face-to-face with the wily dragon Chrysophylax. Giles's cowardly dog is the first to run away and first to strut in the victory parade.

Get the copy with illustrations by Pauline Baynes in the medieval style.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (kpS4V)

328 Dammit. That would have been a perfect spot for '...over Macho Grande?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (bss/y)

329 319 ace is usually overly forgiving. You really have to earn it. Unless he's hangry.

CBD is a bit more 'See the threat, Hammer the threat. Nap.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:36 PM (bss/y)

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People's IPs reset and they can come back even if they don't use VPNs after a while.

I don't think qbsteve was ever actually unbanned. He just stayed away for a couple of years and got a new IP address at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (hAotW)

330 326 On your phone?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (bss/y)

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Worse. My computer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (hAotW)

331 Marxists always talk themselves into knots

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (Ia/+0)

332 Orion Update:

Sounds like the electric razor crisis has been resolved for the time being.

Ground crew were able to identify the most likely location for the electric razor in one of the crew storage lockers in a hygiene kit.

The mission can continue.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (ESVrU)

333 To be clear, I want the Somali Pirate Fraudmongers gone from the US forever. Fuck em all.

However, one can almost not blame them for exploiting our stupid, feckless government in the same exact manner they exploited their stupid ass government in Somalia because the democrats are retarded and have basically turned us into a backwater, third-world, Carmen Miranda hat wearing shithole just like all the rest of them.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (oqH4h)

334 Test

Posted by: Doesn't Matter at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (JCLJi)

335 Well, who saw this coming ??

"Iran rejects U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, a source told the semi-official Fars News Agency"

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (GD0B3)

336 I don't think qbsteve was ever actually unbanned. He just stayed away for a couple of years and got a new IP address at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (hAotW)

I don't think anyone thought it was a problem... until he decided to be too... qdpsteve.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (bss/y)

337 CBD almost banned me once.

TJM
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Must have been off his game.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (mWRBW)

338 Worse. My computer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (hAotW)

How the hell did you do that 'accidently'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (bss/y)

339 I don't lile this "paid to stay home and take care of family" attack.

Paying people to stay home with a severely disabled relative is a cost-saving device.

We have a friend in her 80s who home-cares her severly-disabled daughter. She is paid around $25/hr for probably 20-30 hrs/wk.
If that daughter were in a group home, the home would be paid far, far more for someone who requires this level of care. An in-home living company would be paid even more and a a state facility would be astronomically expensive.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 03, 2026 02:35 PM (0MjtC)

If the parent isn't disabled, its double dip fraud. Saw a clip of 2 well dressed protesters who supposedly get paid for 12 hours work a day for a parent.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (8avO+)

340 338 Worse. My computer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (hAotW)

How the hell did you do that 'accidently'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (bss/y)

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*points at myself*

Illiterate. Asshole.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (hAotW)

341 Sounds like the electric razor crisis has been resolved for the time being.

Ground crew were able to identify the most likely location for the electric razor in one of the crew storage lockers in a hygiene kit.

The mission can continue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

No Lunar Mission mustachios for them!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (GD0B3)

342 I don't think qbsteve was ever actually unbanned. He just stayed away for a couple of years and got a new IP address at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (hAotW)
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I have a regular ISP and thus have a "dynamic" IP, but weirdly it hasn't changed in 7 years. Pretty wild to have a de facto static IP at home.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (oqH4h)

343 Yes, he was clearly responsible and we (states) jumped on it, too, when we could. Somehow, the $ was never going to end for social programs, i.e.,

Stateline, April 2025
'States that enshrined Medicaid expansion in their constitutions could be in a bind'
Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota will have to pick up the slack if the feds cut funding for the program.

The call for universal medicine and other comprehensive programs is not waning. Now UHC is considered a critical social equalizer.

What must suffer? Defense, of course.
We've become 'accustomed' to 'diplomacy before defense!' US negotiation, alliances, and humanitarian aid, partnerships, and one heck of a lot of money backing it.

There's no easy path ahead for the middle class, including retirees.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (NFX2v)

344 CA has been pro DEM gerrymandered for a long time. I wonder if bending them to get the last bit won't backfire since the first gerrymander was to make all the districts SAFE for both parties.

Dems are shitting their pants right now, repubs are in the two top spots for Governor. I doubt it will stay that way but it would be funny if Repubs were the only ones on the ballot

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (NtVYv)

345 Well, who saw this coming ??

"Iran rejects U.S. proposal for a ceasefire, a source told the semi-official Fars News Agency"
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (GD0B3)

Either the press or Iran lying is pretty predictable.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (8avO+)

346 *points at myself*

Illiterate. Asshole.

Duh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:40 PM (hAotW)

Who didn't notice he had highlighted the entire page?

Yeah, that's pretty fucking stupid.

And you've had kids?

Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (bss/y)

347 UBI seems like a good idea.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (52ERr)

348 Dems are shitting their pants right now, repubs are in the two top spots for Governor. I doubt it will stay that way but it would be funny if Repubs were the only ones on the ballot
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (NtVYv)

It might make them drop the unconstitutional jungle primary.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

349 To be clear, I want the Somali Pirate Fraudmongers gone from the US forever. Fuck em all.

However, one can almost not blame them for exploiting our stupid, feckless government in the same exact manner they exploited their stupid ass government in Somalia because the democrats are retarded and have basically turned us into a backwater, third-world, Carmen Miranda hat wearing shithole just like all the rest of them.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (oqH4h)
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Can we send along with them the Minnesota politicians who helped facilitate this whole thing?

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (GZYu7)

350 332 Orion Update:

Sounds like the electric razor crisis has been resolved for the time being.

Ground crew were able to identify the most likely location for the electric razor in one of the crew storage lockers in a hygiene kit.

The mission can continue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (ESVrU)
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Christina's beav and all those who encounter it breathe a sigh of relief.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (oqH4h)

351 I have been surprised the one on my phone for the work wifi has never changed in like 4 years. zZuos for future ref.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (bss/y)

352 Who didn't notice he had highlighted the entire page?

Yeah, that's pretty fucking stupid.

And you've had kids?

Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (bss/y)

I've grabbed and pasted a huge number of posts a few times but knew it before sending.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

353 348 It might make them drop the unconstitutional jungle primary.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

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They'll just work harder at clearing the deck before the primary, not get rid of one of their best tools at maintaining uniparty power.

It'll take a lot more than one lost governor's race to undo the jungle primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (hAotW)

354 332 Orion Update:

Sounds like the electric razor crisis has been resolved for the time being.

Ground crew were able to identify the most likely location for the electric razor in one of the crew storage lockers in a hygiene kit.

The mission can continue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (ESVrU)
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Christina's beav and all those who encounter it breathe a sigh of relief.
Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (oqH4h)

The Lady astronaut moved it, probably.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (8avO+)

355 Dems are shitting their pants right now, repubs are in the two top spots for Governor. I doubt it will stay that way but it would be funny if Repubs were the only ones on the ballot
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 02:41 PM (NtVYv)

It might make them drop the unconstitutional jungle primary.

______________________

We could only hope

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (NtVYv)

356 I've grabbed and pasted a huge number of posts a few times but knew it before sending.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

Yeah, cause the entire screen is blue. TJM thought 'Der... that's normal.' or just drooled and hit post.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (bss/y)

357 The frustrating thing for me is that in the entire argument over the 14th amendment one major part is almost totally overlooked. Here's the pertinent text:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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That's the most important part. Don't believe me?

Try and draft a wetback.
Or force them to sign up for Selective Service.

You'll find out just how quick you don't have jurisdiction over them.
Posted by: rickb223
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"subject to the jurisdiction" is not dependent on being physically in the US....


.... But how else could I steal their wallet?
- Some Retarded Woman

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 02:44 PM (/lPRQ)

358 356 Yeah, cause the entire screen is blue. TJM thought 'Der... that's normal.' or just drooled and hit post.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (bss/y)

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Or, more like, The cursor is slightly too far to the left when I start the text select. I move very quickly to get the end of the comment I want, and the browser doesn't actually move to indicate that I've selected more than I thought.

I then copy what I think is one comment into the box that has no character limit, and the blue selection from the main page goes away because I've clicked something else on the page.

I then comment away, happily thinking that I've managed that one extra pixel to the left effectively enough to prevent embarrassment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (hAotW)

359 I then comment away, happily thinking that I've managed that one extra pixel to the left effectively enough to prevent embarrassment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:45 PM (hAotW)

LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:46 PM (bss/y)

360 336 I don't think qbsteve was ever actually unbanned. He just stayed away for a couple of years and got a new IP address at some point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 02:38 PM (hAotW)

I don't think anyone thought it was a problem... until he decided to be too... qdpsteve.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:39 PM (bss/y)

He got himself permabanned - twice..?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (QGaXH)

361 I was actually surprised when it took 10 years before the trolls realized they could copy paste the entire thread. Seems like a no brainer to annoy everyone.

Was that BSG?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (bss/y)

362 I love all the "expert" opinions on the election.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:49 PM (g8Ew8)

363 Nood people!!

Posted by: Denny Crane - On My Balcony...NOW!!!!! at April 03, 2026 02:50 PM (dmDsy)

364 He got himself permabanned - twice..?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 02:48 PM (QGaXH)

Still the same guy with the same tics.

See, most of us when we come into the thread know it's polite to address the thread first. Call ace gay and lame. Maybe comment on some retarded dem or make a David French cuck joke before we go completely off topic. He'd come in and immediately go off topic- which miffed the cobs- even if it was over 100. He was warned about it, but for whatever reason could not grok that social nicety (which was the key to pretty much everything with him.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (bss/y)

365 The Lady astronaut moved it, probably.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (8avO+)

She's already remodeling the toilet space and lighting scented candles.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (g8Ew8)

366 365 The Lady astronaut moved it, probably.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 03, 2026 02:43 PM (8avO+)

She's already remodeling the toilet space and lighting scented candles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (g8Ew

And putting useless pillows everywhere.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 02:53 PM (bss/y)

367 it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here.
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LOL. "Post-scarcity".

The only time you're post scarcity is when you're in the grave.

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:18 PM (Fi81e)

368 Is it the socialists who don't think you have to work after socialism who came up with the name "post-scarcity"?

Posted by: Axeman at April 03, 2026 03:19 PM (Fi81e)

369 >
She's already remodeling the toilet space and lighting scented candles.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 03, 2026 02:52 PM (g8Ew

Fuzzy seat cover that makes it impossible for the seat to stay up, then bitches because the seat winds up getting wet.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 03:27 PM (IG3/x)

370 UBI drives inflation biggly. The goal is to do redistribution from the wealthier to the poorer and eat away the debt at the same time time.

It’s going to lead to disaster

Posted by: The Dog at April 03, 2026 03:43 PM (ZMKNH)

371 "To be honest, I think it's better than LOTR."
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Blasphemy.

Posted by: Dagwood at April 03, 2026 04:22 PM (CC0N1)

Iran Claims It Shot Down an F-15 Fighter and Is Searching for the Pilots

Is this true? Well, Iran media has no credibility, except with the corrupt American propaganda media.


Iran shot down what appears to be a fighter plane on Friday, Iranian state media reported, in what would be the first time that Tehran downed an American jet since the war broke out five weeks ago.

The search and rescue is underway for two service members.

The Hill has reached out to the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the U.S. military's actions in the region, for comment.

Iranian state media released photos purportedly showing parts of the plane, indicating it was a U.S. F-15 fighter jet.

Tasnim News Agency, the semiofficial news outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the U.S. sent out a C-130 Hercules plane and Black Hawk helicopters to look for the crew.

Axios claims "a source familiar with the incident" -- no statement whether the "source" is American or enemy comms from Iran -- confirms the shoot-down.

Their new headline claims the US (or, perhaps, Israel) has successfully "rescued" one of the two pilots and continue searching for the other:

U.S. fighter jet shot down in Iran: One crew member rescued, search for other ongoing

If it's true that we have spec ops in the area and they found one pilot, the chances are good that they will also locate the other, who probably isn't more than a few miles from his partner.

But I don't know if any of this is true. I guess the US is refusing to confirm the reports, but you'd expect the US to refuse comment until the situation is resolved.

This is one of the two disaster scenarios I've been fearing (if true). The other is that an Iranian missile gets very, very lucky and manages to badly damage a $13 billion aircraft carrier, which would immediately reduce US air power and also be a huge propaganda victory encouraging the left-wing (and pseudo-rightwing) anti-American agitators to demand we leave the mullahs to slaughter their citizens and bomb our allies in peace. Because America's enemies are justified in using force to advance their political position, whereas America (and Israel!) of course are never so justified, ever, never ever ever.


On X, a picture of an ejector seat allegedly found by Iran was posted. But people claimed it was a fake and did not look like a bona-fide Air Force ejector seat.


Grok says that "OSINTDefender" is often wrong. "OSINT" means, I presume, "Open Source Intelligence," so, in other words, they're just getting this from the internet, and we know Iran is claiming a shoot-down on the internet.


We're all Open Source Intelligence Officers now, aren't we?

If this is true -- and I don't know that it is -- one thing that may help the missing pilot(s) is the warm regard many, but not all, Iranians have for the US/Israeli action against the Islamic Occupational Army of Iran.

I hope everyone is having a Good Friday!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:08 PM




Comments

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1 UNTO THE FIRST IS ALWAYS FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

2 Someone in the Rant thread that CENTCOM had confirmed but that the pilot(s) were already safe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

3 Howdy Pardners!

Posted by: Japanese X account at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (Dv3i1)

4 Huh. Praying for the second pilot to be found by our guys asap

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (4KUe5)

5
Dear God,
Please protect these pilot, return them safely to us and protect those searching for them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (IifOV)

6 I've known two guys who have Martin-Baker ballcaps. You can't get these hats online. You have to use their product - ejection seats - to get one. Making them sort of the most exclusive hats I know of. And not something you actually want to have.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (U/Byj)

7 *reads content*
.....
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:08 PM

Ok.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Dv3i1)

8 Dear God,
Please protect these pilot, return them safely to us and protect those searching for them.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (IifOV)


Yes.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (n9ltV)

9 Seems a valid report, but will wait for confirmation. Which may not happen until crew recovery is resolved

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Ia/+0)

10 None of the networks are reporting the pilots as saved.

They're all reporting on the rescue efforts.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (Sco7b)

11 But is it plant based and copper infused?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 03, 2026 12:12 PM (Kt19C)

12 WE'VE LOST A FIGHTER JET!!!

THE WAR IS LOST!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark! at April 03, 2026 12:12 PM (n1OCj)

13 Our media is Garbage

Its mind boggling that in this age of information and connectivity the news media acts like gossiping high school children

Posted by: melodicmetal at April 03, 2026 12:12 PM (o+zSx)

14 F15's do not carry pilots (plural ). One pilot and one WSO, Weapons System Officer.
/ pedantry_off

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 03, 2026 12:13 PM (diia5)

15 OSINTDefender, like literally every such type I've found with very few exceptions, is fairly clueless when it comes to the why, the bigger picture, or any policy considerations. They're useful as aggregators of reported info and little more, but that is useful to the indolent such as myself. It's incredible how little actual useful correct or intelligent commentary or analysis is to be found. A vast wasteland, to borrow a term.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:13 PM (U/Byj)

16 6 I've known two guys who have Martin-Baker ballcaps. You can't get these hats online. You have to use their product - ejection seats - to get one. Making them sort of the most exclusive hats I know of. And not something you actually want to have.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (U/Byj)
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Yeah the Martin-Baker fanclub isn't a club you join on purpose.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:13 PM (oqH4h)

17 It will happen. If true, I hope we get the pilots home swiftly.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 03, 2026 12:13 PM (XHO5P)

18 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Now you see, American slave-dogs controlled by the International Jewish Capitalist Conspiracy, that you will all fall to the mighty soldiers of the Reich!

(edited by ace to demonstrate what's really being said here)

Posted by: Hitler's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbles at April 03, 2026 12:14 PM (iCp4l)

20 Directional State, down 85-6, sacked Big Bucks U's 3rd string QB against their 4th string O-line with 15 seconds left in the game.

Posted by: so what at April 03, 2026 12:14 PM (ULPxl)

21 Not saying the Iran-provided picture of the seat is real, but "No footprints or disturbed sand" doesn't mean shit.

You don't come to the earth sitting on your ejection seat. It decouples from you after the chute deploys and you land somewhere else.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:15 PM (oqH4h)

22 Story could be real, but that pic of the seat is 100% fake. No way that's a seat in an F15 that was just shot down. That seat looks like it's been sitting in the desert for 20 years.

Plus, the shadows of the guy taking the pic and the shadows (or lack thereof) of the seat don't line up. Looks photoshopped to me.

I'm not sure the observation that there are no footprints is valid, though. The pilot ejects from the seat long before it hits the ground. There would probably be some disturbance when the seat hit the ground, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

23 on the face of it, nothing they say has the least credibility.

I'll believe it when DoW makes the announcement, not before.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 12:15 PM (MIIRH)

24 There must be some anti aircraft scattered around still functional.

I'm sure the MSM is all "We do not have 100% air superiority as Trump claims!!11!!"

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 12:15 PM (IifOV)

25 After a successful punch out and recovery the Aviator and/or Flight Officer will give the safety/survival shop a bottle of whiskey. See NAVAIRSYSCOM Regs regarding hard liquor.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 03, 2026 12:15 PM (gm9Sb)

26 And so it begins.

Posted by: That Guy who intones "And so it begins." at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (0sNs1)

27 The glee with which some in the media and on social media are reporting this story makes me want to puke, and then knock their teeth down their throats.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

28 The Jerusalem Post claims a source has confirmed to them that the plane was downed, the pilot has already been rescued, and the navigator's fate is currently unknown.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (weLyd)

29 by the way, I'm tired of the Nazi troll so, cobloggers, if you feel like it, feel free to rewrite his Nazi messaging in any way you like.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)

30 Garbage media posting garbage.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:17 PM (GD0B3)

31 >>>21 Not saying the Iran-provided picture of the seat is real, but "No footprints or disturbed sand" doesn't mean shit.

I actually didn't mean to include that reply. I found that claim as weak as you did.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

32 Don't know the current total sortie or mission count, but the "loss rate" for US aircraft in this operation is easily the lowest of any major operation in our history. Four aircraft - 3 from the Kuwait friendly-fire ambush - and possibly the damaged F-35 from earlier, though not a loss. Nobody's ever seen anything like it (in history), to borrow an expression from a NY real estate developer.

The Israeli loss rate, AFAIK 0/X - no losses - is obviously unprecedented and historic (using the terms properly). Amazing.

Every war and situation is different (something I notice that almost everyone has great trouble understanding), but there has never been an air campaign of this scope with this level of losses (almost zero).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:18 PM (U/Byj)

33 feel free to rewrite his Nazi messaging in any way you like.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)


Way ahead of you!

Although the moderators are banning them quickly, so we can't have much fun with the edits!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:18 PM (n9ltV)

34 I'm on my way to Iran to sing songs with the missile and gun crews and bad mouth my country and Trump.

It's like 1972 all over again! I feel so young, my dusty coochie is tingling all over!

Posted by: Old Boomer Jane Fonda, Original AWFUL at April 03, 2026 12:18 PM (HUHft)

35 If indeed the plane went down, it's more likely from a mechanical failure than an Iranian weapon

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

36 Also, it seems that both the US and Israel have suspended strikes in that area of Iran, while the search-and-rescue operation is underway.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (weLyd)

37 by the way, I'm tired of the Nazi troll so, cobloggers, if you feel like it, feel free to rewrite his Nazi messaging in any way you like.

Which one, specifically?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

38 Solid confirmation all around hat one was already rescued (great job Special Ops!). It's dark in I-ran right now, just saying.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (GD0B3)

39 CNN...one of two rescued.

MS Now and FoxNews .... nothing

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b)

40
Axios.

LOL.

Posted by: Most people at April 03, 2026 12:20 PM (2Ez/1)

41 Which one, specifically?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)


The stupid boring one.

You know...all of them.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:20 PM (n9ltV)

42 Israel said it is not involved in this particular rescue ops...

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:20 PM (GD0B3)

43
27 The glee with which some in the media and on social media are reporting this story makes me want to puke, and then knock their teeth down their throats.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12

What they need is a 30 day respite under a Muslim regime, they can get back to us on how well it turned out for them.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:20 PM (71y1j)

44 Which one, specifically?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

The stupid boring one.

You know...all of them.


EXCELLENT! I can now unload on all those people I don't like. Oh, cobloggers only? Well, lah-di-dah!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

45 >>>Which one, specifically?

I don't know, he's an anonymous Nazi (of course) and always changes his screenname.

He's now going to whine like a cunt that his free speech is being restricted by a private party who owns a business. I say, fuck you Nazi, start your own Nazi site. Oh wait you all do, but no one wants to read your Nazi bullshit, so you get no traffic, so they you hijack other people's popular sites to spread your Nazi bullshit around.

You've said the same fucking thing 100 times now. We got it. There is no further usefulness to us of additional repetitions of the same Nazi talking points.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:21 PM (1wjle)

46 Putting aside the fact that a Democrat president not start a foolish war, their Ivy Leaguers they would have in charge of the war wouldn't enact a plan that would allow for a fighter jet to be shot down. It would be fought to perfection, no casualties.

Posted by: bonesy at April 03, 2026 12:21 PM (s/s6s)

47 35 If indeed the plane went down, it's more likely from a mechanical failure than an Iranian weapon
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Or Tiger Woods was driving.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:22 PM (oqH4h)

48 My hate for the media is white hot, them lying about this only intensified my hate.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 03, 2026 12:22 PM (Q/FnY)

49 I mean, even if they managed to finally shoot down a jet, we've flown around 20,000 sorties and this is the first one downed so... LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:23 PM (El6/E)

50 ...and CENTCOM is going to make a statement soon

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:23 PM (GD0B3)

51 The Economic Times is Indian. They are claiming a Blackhawk as well.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 12:23 PM (52ERr)

52 Oh wait you all do, but no one wants to read your Nazi bullshit, so you get no traffic, so they you hijack other people's popular sites to spread your Nazi bullshit around.

You've said the same fucking thing 100 times now. We got it. There is no further usefulness to us of additional repetitions of the same Nazi talking points.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:21 PM (1wjle)



Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

53 btw Nazi, since you were all keen to claim Trump was covering up for Jewish Agent Jeffrey Epstein -- why zero criticism of your Reickskommander Steve Bannon acting as Epstein's PR agent and continuing his close friendship until Epstein's death?

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)

54 I pray for the safe return of these aviators but I'm also gladdened that the PJs are getting some real-world mission time.

Those dudes are hardcore and don't get enough credit.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (oqH4h)

55 They're desperate and will say anything. And "our" media will lap it up. Incentives are irresistible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (fZiTB)

56 >>>Wait. Popular site?

i'm being rhetorical. Take me seriously, not literally.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)

57 >> ...and CENTCOM is going to make a statement soon

CENTCOM earlier on an X-posting called the story fake news. Have they changed their position now?

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)

58 If they killed our pilot, there should be a terrible reprisal. Something that hurts. Carpet bomb Qom until absolutely nothing remains.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

59 49 I mean, even if they managed to finally shoot down a jet, we've flown around 20,000 sorties and this is the first one downed so... LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:23 PM (El6/E)

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We lost a lot more in the opening weeks of Iraq.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:25 PM (hAotW)

60 56 >>>Wait. Popular site?

i'm being rhetorical. Take me seriously, not literally.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)

=======

Who are you?

You some kind of big deal round these parts?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (hAotW)

61 A couple of sources, including CBS, say one airman rescued. Nothing confirmed by CENTCOM. Yet. And I'd wait until they chime in. Being the authoritative source here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (AkEZC)

62 i'm so convinced that israel controls all the governments of the world and kills its critics that i'm terrified for my own life which is why i post online about how much i hate israel.

i smart.

Posted by: Israel at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (MI7nC)

63 The left and Tucker-types on the right (birm) flood over with joy at even the prospect of a combat loss in this conflict. Anything to make Trump look bad. It's becoming truly tiresome.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (0MjtC)

64 One report that the Pilot and Weapons Officer ejected from their F-15E, and have already been safely extracted from Iranian territory. Now just the pilot. WSO status unknown.

Fast footwork by the SAR community and their supporting air components. A plane crew in Iranian hands - ** Shudder**

We have A-10s, C-130s and more in the SAR effort.
C-130s over Iran!, and within range of ground (rifle) fire.
CENTCOM is silent, so far. So is Iran.

Iranians saying the hunt is on, with a $30,000 reward. Iranians misidentified the plane as F-35. It is from the "Panthers" 49th Fighter Sqdn, out of the UK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (u82oZ)

65 If they shot it down, and if they have our service members, it’s time to end this whole thing. And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (71y1j)

66 maybe we can get john kerry to come in and negotiate an honorable surrender. we probably still owe the iranians a couple of hundred billion$ and kerry can negotiate an affordable payment plan

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (CWTWj)

67 They should nuke India first.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (52ERr)

68 I hate Nazi's even more than the media. My mothers parents were Jewish and that makes the Nazi's my mortal enemies.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (Q/FnY)

69
Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM
###

https://youtu.be/oTjjLPBb6Ew

Posted by: Obligatory at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (2Ez/1)

70 I remember during the WoT when some jihadi guy claimed that a jihadi group had captured an American soldier and for evidence he submitted a picture of a GI Joe knockoff doll with its hands behind its back sitting on the ground.

And...the media believed it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (sKqQm)

71 You want to know why Israel killed Charlie Kirk and won't kill Tucker or Candace?

Charlie was too effective.

Which implies that Candace and Tucker are...not effective.

Which is hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (hAotW)

72 Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)
*******************************

AoS may not be popular, but it is a smart military blog.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (weLyd)

73 feel free to rewrite his Nazi messaging in any way you like.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)




How is TJM going to top "yummy shit pebbles."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

74 73 How is TJM going to top "yummy shit pebbles."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (hAotW)

75 Why would you ever look at a picture of anything ever again and think "yeah that tracks"? Forget it Jake. It's fake AI bullshit town.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (mWRBW)

76 GatewayPundit also reporting one rescue

So far.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (Sco7b)

77 47 35 If indeed the plane went down, it's more likely from a mechanical failure than an Iranian weapon
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)
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Or Tiger Woods was driving.
Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:22 PM (oqH4h)
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Or, you know, a woman.

Posted by: Spokesperson for Space Ice at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (cWLG3)

78 52
Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03

We are raising membership prices to reflect this status.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (71y1j)

79 extra kudos to cobs who rewrite trolls' nazi agitpor to Ishrael and Joo praising snippets! GO!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:29 PM (GD0B3)

80
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (hAotW)



If only you could READ!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

81 I mean, you really want them Big Mad, don't you ???

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (GD0B3)

82 WE DID IT!!!

Posted by: The Left at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (mWRBW)

83 81
I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (hAotW)


If only you could READ!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

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Ouch, baby. Very ouch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (hAotW)

84 Seriously... annihilate a holy site. That Fatima shrine in Qom would be a good choice. Or that stupid fuckin' well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (BI5O2)

85 I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (71y1j)

If we haven't learned this by now we don't deserve to win.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (INQN/)

86 Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (kgE5c)

87 If they shot it down, and if they have our service members, it’s time to end this whole thing. And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (71y1j)

Yes...make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: Zombie Brig. Gen. George "Bud" Day at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (HUHft)

88 GatewayPundit also reporting one rescue

So far.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:28 PM (Sco7b)



They all get their news from the internet, so........

I'll wait for the announcement from Trump, or Hegseth, or anyone else actually involved with the actual military and it's mission in Iran.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

89 US CENTCOm has not posted anything about Iranian claims of downing jets in 19 hours. This incident is more recent.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (GD0B3)

90 65 If they shot it down, and if they have our service members, it’s time to end this whole thing. And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM (71y1j
Agree. The mirror image Gen. George C. Marshall Plan.

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (rR03l)

91
Ouch, baby. Very ouch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (hAotW)



I blame the public school system.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

92 Strangely, no one has linked Kristy Noem's veto of the South Dakota bill in 2021 that would've banned men in women's sports to the fact that her husband likes to gay-play "Glen or Glenda?" on the internet.

https://tinyurl.com/aswmbarm

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (A/tlT)

93 This goes hand-in-hand with these Lefty-wish casting reports:

“Cover-Up”: Pentagon Is Downplaying Troop Casualties Under Trump | An investigation found the Department of Defense sent outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran.

Iran has hit multiple US targets in the region with great precision. US soldiers were stationed at the military bases that are now deemed uninhabitable. It's entirely plausible it resulted in more casualties then we have been led to believe. Truth is not really a virtue of the US government, especially the current one.

Im sure the general that JUST GOT FIRED, WARNED about this! It GUARANTEES trump and Hegseth will do whatever idiotic thing needed to cause unnecessary significant casualties

Hegseth is Trump's out for the Iran war. Noem was his out for the ICE shit. Bondi is his out for Epstein files handling, Hegseth will be his excuse for the shitshow in Iran.

he’s doing exactly what he’s there for. Purge the military of good senior officers and commit war crimes. Until he stops both of those he ain’t going anywhere. He’s the scapegoat for Iran backlash too.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (JCZqz)

94 For perspective, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft (3,744 planes, 5,607 helicopters and about 1,000 UAVs). Out of 5.25 million sorties in the war.

Our loss rate in Iran is a testament to our prowess in the air, and well-maintained aircraft.

We've lost 16 UAVs, 4 fighters, one KC-135. 21 total.
Well, and some ground losses. The E-3 was the one that hurt.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (u82oZ)

95 @GermanosPeter
·
2h
Translated from Arabic
🇺🇸 Update on the Reported F-15E Aircraft Incident
The American pilots have been successfully evacuated
by allied forces and are now safe, with their well-being confirmed.

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There's that, I guess. I dunno.

I just know that Hammer better start making some freaking horror movies at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (hAotW)

96 I've known two guys who have Martin-Baker ballcaps. You can't get these hats online. You have to use their product - ejection seats - to get one. Making them sort of the most exclusive hats I know of. And not something you actually want to have.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (U/Byj)

***

My brother has a pin from Grumman for using their seat on the OV-1D Mohawk during his tour in VietNam.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (2WIwB)

97 The Quicker Picker Upper.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (52ERr)

98 Hanoi Jane's Coochie is no longer dusty.

Posted by: More Like Mummified at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (oftw2)

99 Strangely, no one has linked Kristy Noem's veto of the South Dakota bill in 2021 that would've banned men in women's sports to the fact that her husband likes to gay-play "Glen or Glenda?" on the internet.
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Really? First thing I said

Posted by: The Left at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (mWRBW)

100 Since I know crap, I'm asking.

I'd imagine all the pilots have some sort of tracking device in case they do get shot down, right?

As long as they don't land in cities, do they just lay down, cover themselves in sand and wait for rescue?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b)

101 I mean in general if a Massive Ordinance Penetrator were to drop from a Freedom Dorito and fall directly down that stupid fucking well where these loons think the 13th imam or whatever the fuck false idol they pray to is going to emerge from, it wouldn't break my heart.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (oqH4h)

102 78 52
Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03

We are raising membership prices to reflect this status.
Posted by: Piper

Moose at door should have told you, now maths will be involved.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (Q/FnY)

103 Update on the Reported F-15E Aircraft Incident
The American pilots have been successfully evacuated
by allied forces and are now safe, with their well-being confirmed
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*sobs*

Posted by: The Left at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (mWRBW)

104 Hanoi Jane's Coochie is no longer dusty.
Posted by: More Like Mummified at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (oftw2)



She calls it "Sahara" for a reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

105 94 Im sure the general that JUST GOT FIRED, WARNED about this! It GUARANTEES trump and Hegseth will do whatever idiotic thing needed to cause unnecessary significant casualties

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (JCZqz)

======

Firing the head of the Army directly lead to the shooting down of an air force aircraft?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (hAotW)

106 Paul Lynde is back?

Posted by: Spokesperson for Space Ice at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (cWLG3)

107 We lost a lot more in the opening weeks of Iraq.

I just try to imagine these people during WW2. WE LOST HOW MANY MEN ON D-DAY????!?!?!?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (El6/E)

108 What we do have is IRGC of Islamic Republic bombing itself again. Launched a missile and it struck Tehran residential area.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

109 Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM


Top o' the world, Sponge!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:34 PM (kgE5c)

110 >>>We're all Open Source Intelligence Officers now, aren't we?

Well, ppen source dumbass doesn't play as well to the mouthbreathers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:34 PM (dK+Kv)

111 86 Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03

I don’t know which post you are referencing - but thank you for the reminder to repost this out on x. Every time is do it, I sing a little song from Newsies. 🤣. I taught this morning so I haven’t read or caught up on morning events.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:34 PM (71y1j)

112 The other is that an Iranian missile gets very, very lucky and manages to badly damage a $13 billion aircraft carrier, which would immediately reduce US air power....

I'm quite familiar with our Carrier (and LHD/A - they're the same systems) anti-ship missile defense (ASMD). It was my specialty in the Navy. 1) They don't go anywhere without a screening group against air, surface, and submarine threats, and those are positioned along the likely axes those threats are expected. They would initially engage any threat to the High Value Unit (HVU). In case of "leakers" (missiles that get past the screen),. the Carrier has three layers of defense by itself: radar guided Enhanced Sea Sparrow (ESSM), IR/RF seeking Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM), and radar guided CIWS at 4500 rounds per minute. Those can all be manual controlled, but the Ship's Self Defense System (SSDS) was developed to enable automated doctrine to employ all of those systems. It's pretty robust, and it includes the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) which allows all ships in the network to fire at a threat even if it doesn't have the track itself.

I'm not going to tell you any numbers for obvious reasons.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at April 03, 2026 12:34 PM (gUs21)

113 I blame the public school system.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

Pubic School System? Where!!??

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (mWRBW)

114 NaCly I have been wondering since the overhead imagery (from commercial sources) was posted of Prince Sultan AB (both incidents) - why weren't the aircraft dispersed? The Iranians are working with pretty crude systems. The aircraft hit were all parked in normal peace-time fashion, pretty close together. Haven't been to that base but surely it's got enormous ramp space, and likely zero concern over sabotage. Seems you'd disperse unsheltered aircraft.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (U/Byj)

115 I'd imagine all the pilots have some sort of tracking device in case they do get shot down, right?

As long as they don't land in cities, do they just lay down, cover themselves in sand and wait for rescue?
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b)
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1) Yeah they have beacons they can activate and also handheld radios to communicate with SAR.

2) Maybe, sometimes? They all attend SERE school so they learn how to Survive and Evade capture, or in the worst case Resist interrogation and attempt to Escape if possible. They will do what they can to aid their own rescue if they aren't injured.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)

116 Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

The internet amplifies stupidity. Sigh. You are a hardened spreader of Intel from the insane Asylum.

In the old days shouting at clouds while digging up good dirt was not widespread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (u82oZ)

117 If you're gloating over an American man trapped behind enemy lines with a bunch of of filthy goddamned Koranimals you can suck my fucking dick all the way down to my asshole.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (BI5O2)

118 Remain Calm. All is well.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (n17eQ)

119 @111 Reporting for duty, sir!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (cWLG3)

120 Pubic School System? Where!!??
Posted by: Joe Biden at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (mWRBW)



Put it away, old man.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

121 Wait. Popular site?

We've made it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

*eyes pants*

Meh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (dK+Kv)

122 Posted by: Paul at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (1OFVD)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

123 I hear that the Iranian government is calling on Muslims to burn down churches and synagogues this weekend. Specifically here in the US.

Basically another day ending in Y but still. I think there are enough Muslims here to make this something of an issue if they want to.

Apparently we haven't killed enough mullahs yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (AkEZC)

124 I don’t know which post you are referencing - but thank you for the reminder to repost this out on x. Every time is do it, I sing a little song from Newsies. 🤣. I taught this morning so I haven’t read or caught up on morning events.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:34 PM



This bit:

And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:26 PM

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (kgE5c)

125 ....and TJM swings for the fences.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

126 Good Friday Greetings from Southern California

Prayers for the pilots.

Today's Fox Business Varney & Co Trivia Question:

How many states recognize Good Friday as a state holiday?

12
17
24
31

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (QGaXH)

127 6 Making them sort of the most exclusive hats I know of. And not something you actually want to have.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM

Does that mean that the passenger, who inadvertently ejected both him and the pilot while the plane was still taxiing on the runway, get a hat?

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (qoLdL)

128 Someone in the WH needs to get the tape of Daniel Pearl being beheaded.

He wrote for the WSJ. It seems they didn't learn the lesson.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (INQN/)

129 >>>54 I pray for the safe return of these aviators but I'm also gladdened that the PJs are getting some real-world mission time.

I just heard of them a couple of years ago. Really cool guys.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (1wjle)

130 Was it an African or European ejection seat?

Posted by: Sir Lancelot at April 03, 2026 12:37 PM (7Q0e+)

131 Piper is in charge of membership prices now? I thought she was only in charge of the AoSHQ’s fitness standards.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (Z/x3/)

132 Firing the head of the Army directly lead to the shooting down of an air force aircraft?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, the related Lefty tinfoil hat conspiracy that there are tons of US casualties, but the DoW is hiding the numbers, or lying about them somehow to keep the public in the dark.
‐--------
The internet amplifies stupidity. Sigh. You are a hardened spreader of Intel from the insane Asylum.

In the old days shouting at clouds while digging up good dirt was not widespread.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Uh, thanks? I think? Lol

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

133 @128 I assume it's the lowest number, 12

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (cWLG3)

134 Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:35 PM (oqH4h)

Thank you.

Unless you're walking around wearing neon pink, I'd imagine you can be tough to spot in a desert unless they know exactly where you are.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (Sco7b)

135 Can we quote the troll after the comment has been 'corrected for accuracy?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

136 Stateless

The crew have devices that can communicate with planes overhead. Using them is fraught, as it gives a line of bearing to the sender. 3 detectors can lead to a small part of the map to head for, by both forces.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (u82oZ)

137 Strangely, no one has linked Kristy Noem's veto of the South Dakota bill in 2021 that would've banned men in women's sports to the fact that her husband likes to gay-play "Glen or Glenda?" on the internet.

https://tinyurl.com/aswmbarm
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at April 03, 2026 12:31 PM (A/tlT)

She had every justification for shooting her rogue dog. Ditto for her rogue husband. Get off the stick, Kristi, and end the SOB.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (nNdlS)

138 95 For perspective, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft (3,744 planes, 5,607 helicopters and about 1,000 UAVs). Out of 5.25 million sorties in the war.

Our loss rate in Iran is a testament to our prowess in the air, and well-maintained aircraft.

We've lost 16 UAVs, 4 fighters, one KC-135. 21 total.
Well, and some ground losses. The E-3 was the one that hurt.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:32 PM (u82oZ)

Trump is asking for $1.5T for DOW in the 2027 budget...to say that's a lot is an understatement (we just broke $1T in 2026's budget). But it's the cost when you fight a war.

Hopefully, we don't spiral into the LBJ's situation where Congress will not cut elsewhere and we see the debt balloon to unheard of amounts that brings a bad decade afterwards...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (tOcjL)

139 Piper is in charge of membership prices now? I thought she was only in charge of the AoSHQ’s fitness standards.
Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (Z/x3/)



And kale futures.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

140 134 No, the related Lefty tinfoil hat conspiracy that there are tons of US casualties, but the DoW is hiding the numbers, or lying about them somehow to keep the public in the dark.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

=======

It's true. We've had every base in the region vaporized since about day 3. All personnel dead.

The new East Wing is really just a hiding spot for body bags now.

That's why the patriotic judge is trying to stop the construction, so we can uncover Trump's crimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:40 PM (hAotW)

141 134 Firing the head of the Army directly lead to the shooting down of an air force aircraft?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I met George about 7 months ago. He is an impressive man. Politics is the business in DC. Sometimes it bites you in the ass.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 12:40 PM (n17eQ)

142 >>Piper is in charge of membership prices now? I thought she was only in charge of the AoSHQ’s fitness standards.

Fashion maven, too.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 12:40 PM (NcvvS)

143 137 Can we quote the troll after the comment has been 'corrected for accuracy?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

======

I see no problem with that.

But that's not legal advice. If CBD yells at you, you can't blame the illiterate asshole who did not give you legal advice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:40 PM (hAotW)

144 I posted this earlier so a repeat but on topic…

I’ve been ready for Trump to declare victory in Iran and get out. BUT…. If somehow Iran shot down one of our jets and manages to nab a pilot of ours and do ANYTHING at all untoward my attitude will change completely. I’ll be like: You ain’t seen nothing yet you goat fuckers now we’re really gonna bomb you to the Stone Age.. energy infrastructure… everything. Call it righteous retribution

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 12:40 PM (aSzdc)

145 I apologize for this being off topic, but I have a question. Am I the only one who can't hear the audio of Astronaut Victor Glover's comments on race? I've tried viewing this video on this site, on X and on Rumble. Can't find one video of his remarks with working audio.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 03, 2026 12:41 PM (X+xvk)

146 No, the related Lefty tinfoil hat conspiracy that there are tons of US casualties, but the DoW is hiding the numbers, or lying about them somehow to keep the public in the dark.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)



So, they believe the Taliban and Iranian press corps over our own US Miltary sources.

Good to know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

147 134 Firing the head of the Army directly lead to the shooting down of an air force aircraft?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No, the related Lefty tinfoil hat conspiracy that there are tons of US casualties, but the DoW is hiding the numbers, or lying about them somehow to keep the public in the dark.
‐--------
The internet amplifies stupidity. Sigh. You are a hardened spreader of Intel from the insane Asylum.

In the old days shouting at clouds while digging up good dirt was not widespread.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Uh, thanks? I think? Lol
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (JCZqz)

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As always they are projecting. The team they support covers up or denies casualty numbers as a matter of policy.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (cWLG3)

148 Scuba_Dude, good question!

And there was the case back in the 80s of an African minister who allegedly ejected both from a trainer (seats are linked, one is activated, there's a delay and the other then fires) during a familiarization flight. Pilot had to have been rather, um, surprised. Long time ago but I think it was Zimbabwe and that small British trainer whose name I forget but resembled the Italian and German ones (like an Alpha jet).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (U/Byj)

149 Probably shot it down with one of our own missiles.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (abIsI)

150 Martin Baker stuff. MyBiL and I were at a detachment soft ball game. He was the seat shop NCOIC. The maintenance officer shows up (CWO3) and says they need the seat pan out of the skippers bird and can you please come down and do it. We says we drunk, he says how drunk? I'm, holding onto these things called banana links, BiL is doing his thing, and he says don't let go or we both take a ride.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (gm9Sb)

151 138 Stateless

The crew have devices that can communicate with planes overhead. Using them is fraught, as it gives a line of bearing to the sender. 3 detectors can lead to a small part of the map to head for, by both forces.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM (u82oZ)

Thank you. I was imagining a signal going out to the US forces in the first few minutes and then being turned off for safety.

Hopefully this ends happily soon.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (Sco7b)

152 148 So, they believe the Taliban and Iranian press corps over our own US Miltary sources.

Good to know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

American sources are tainted because they must swear personal loyalty to Donald Trump's misshapen penis to be granted access to the Pentagon.

On the other hand, Iranian sources are true democrats in service of pursuing justice in the world, and can't be questioned unless one is racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (hAotW)

153 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (AkEZC)

I have been worried about churches and synagogues t during Holy Friday- Easter Sunday and during Passover. I have been praying for their safety and for that of their members and religious leaders.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (Nx5jP)

154 So, they believe the Taliban and Iranian press corps over our own US Miltary sources.

Good to know.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:41 PM


Yes. They believe that all American news is radical right wing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:42 PM (kgE5c)

155
This was all a Gene Hackman Owen Wilson movie.

There. Movie thread.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 12:44 PM (Y8DZL)

156 @142 Just like in that X-Files movie, they plan to blow up the new ballroom after hiding all the bodies.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:44 PM (cWLG3)

157 And kale futures.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:39 PM


Commence Operation Strange Leaf.

- Clarence Beeks

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:44 PM (kgE5c)

158 144 >>Piper is in charge of membership prices now? I thought she was only in charge of the AoSHQ’s fitness standards.

Fashion maven, too.
Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 12


And kale futures.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April

I also order all the office supplies. I am the Rubio of the HQ.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:44 PM (p4NUW)

159 err @143 lol

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:44 PM (cWLG3)

160 I would suggest that the reason the Europeans are on the side of the terrorists is due to the bribery involved in getting oil and gas deals that they don't want to come out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 12:45 PM (0U5gm)

161 160 I would suggest that the reason the Europeans are on the side of the terrorists is due to the bribery involved in getting oil and gas deals that they don't want to come out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 12:45 PM (0U5gm)

========

They could have just been buying WTI from us and fracking their own oil for the last 30 years and avoided all of this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (hAotW)

162 LOL Paul is back? Now there's a name I have not heard for quite some time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (El6/E)

163 Piper is in charge of membership prices now? I thought she was only in charge of the AoSHQ’s fitness standards.
Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 12:38 PM (Z/x3/)


These fitness exercises are kicking my ass. I have yet been able to fit into any the fashions she has shown.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (2WIwB)

164 Piper LoL

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (Ia/+0)

165 My FIL ejected from his jet during a training mission and he hit the canopy because the jet was inverted and he broke his back but he was flying again in two weeks.

I pray the pilot/s are found and safe.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (FW5m7)

166 LOL Paul is back? Now there's a name I have not heard for quite some time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (El6/E)



I still miss Sarah tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

167 We know what Iran did to the remains of the troops who died during Jimmy Carter's fucked up rescue op in 1979

for you younger readers, the corpses and body parts were paraded in public to jeering mobs

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (ZxPkt)

168 rhomboid

I don't really know.

It is a cultural AF thing to not disperse aircraft, I assume to make servicing easier. This goes back to Clark Field in 1941.

We showed in Gulf War 1 that hardened shelters were no defense. There was a Patriot available, don't know about drone defenses.

And we may have a lot of aircraft there, so no real dispersal possible.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (u82oZ)

169 @161 I recall the Battlestar Galactica reboot was pro-fracking.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (cWLG3)

170 They could have just been buying WTI from us and fracking their own oil for the last 30 years and avoided all of this.

Yeah but then they couldn't pretend to be environmentally conscious and all in on the global warming thing. By outsourcing their oil, they can tell themselves they are saving the planet. Plus its cheaper i the short run to buy oil from HateYouIstan than develop your own oil.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (El6/E)

171 These airframes have been pushing very hard. I am surprised that we haven't lost a few to just mechanical failure.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (4NO2D)

172 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM

Old school trolls are best trolls.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (kgE5c)

173
They could have just been buying WTI from us and fracking their own oil for the last 30 years and avoided all of this.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:46 PM (hAotW)



That's not very carbon neutral of you, sir.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

174 It's already happened. E17 Wedgetail, the command center, caught on the ground with no protection. We are using one from Australia, but it is scheduled to go home in a few days. This may have something to do with the general retiring.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (gQ15S)

175 re 134:

Keith Olbermann reposted
Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
·
20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)

176 keith olberman is still a twat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)

177 I have yet been able to fit into any the fashions she has shown

But you looked so adorable in that cotton sundress

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:49 PM (El6/E)

178 I never watched Lesbian Battlestar Galactica.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 12:49 PM (52ERr)

179 My FIL ejected from his jet during a training mission and he hit the canopy because the jet was inverted and he broke his back but he was flying again in two weeks.

I pray the pilot/s are found and safe.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 03, 2026 12:47 PM (FW5m7)

Punching out while outside the ejection envelope will do that.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 12:49 PM (Y1sOo)

180 I am surprised that we haven't lost a few to just mechanical failure.

I think we did, a couple early on. Especially those beautiful old F15s are getting kinda creaky

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (El6/E)

181 They could have just been buying WTI from us and fracking their own oil for the last 30 years and avoided all of this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,


They can't do that, they have to save the planet from boiling!

Also, since they are now relying on mohammedans for political power, they are on a course to become sharia dictatorships.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (0U5gm)

182 BREAKING: Hegseth allows military to carry personal firearms on all bases.

It's about time.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (abIsI)

183 169 65 If they shot it down, and if they have our service members, it’s time to end this whole thing. And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper

It'd be harder to rebuild on glass.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (Sco7b)

184 Keith Olbermann reposted
Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
·
20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)



Yes, because when I want pure speculation on the internet, I'll go to someone who has no f*cking clue whatsoever what's going on.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

185 176 re 134:

Keith Olbermann reposted
Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
·
20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)

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Ground invasion?

Like hundreds of thousands of troops?

Do they just magically teleported over there? Or is there some kind of extended series of elaborate steps that need to be taken to get the troops and support material to the area first?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (hAotW)

186 That is one of the stated complaints about the A-10, they are garage queens that require constant maintenance and are a pain to keep in the air.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (El6/E)

187 I have been worried about churches and synagogues t during Holy Friday- Easter Sunday and during Passover. I have been praying for their safety and for that of their members and religious leaders.

I ushered the service last week, and it was my second time with the earphone and walky-talky, to communicate with a parishioner keeping tabs on the outside of the church. My wife said I looked like a SS agent. (I'll assume competence was implied)

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

188 Internet rumors say it was the Mossad who has him and are currently moving him to Israel.

Candace, Tucker and Nick, soon:
The Jews shot down our plane, captured the pilot and are holding him hostage to force Trump to continue the war!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 03, 2026 12:51 PM (HXT0k)

189 176 re 134:

Keith Olbermann reposted
Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
·
20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)
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Ol Keith thinking we're losing, so it's time for some snark.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:51 PM (cWLG3)

190
Carter Gardens, 1 Woodland Dr, Plains, GA 31780

Just in case anybody wants to visit Jimmah's grave site and go all Virginia AG on it.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (Y8DZL)

191 NaCly sheltering aircraft of that size not usually an option, but also Iran doesn't have systems that could reliably target such structures with precision. Guess I'll never know but seems quite odd to group such targets so close together.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (U/Byj)

192 Keith Olbermann reposted


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

193 Keith Olbermann

. . .

Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)

How on earth can we know that it was the right decision?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (dK+Kv)

194 Ground invasion?

Like hundreds of thousands of troops?


The left is tremendously excited about the idea that any day now we're going to send a Market Garden-sized mass invasion into Iran. All the neocon twerps are thinking the same thing, along with fools like Tucker and Matt Walsh.

That's not happening. We're not invading Iran. We're not gonna occupy Iran.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (El6/E)

195 glib glop gloop
poop

Posted by: The way it is at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (iFSP8)

196 > keith olberman is still a twat

Posted by: gnats local 678
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he sullies the good name of twats

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (ZxPkt)

197 183 BREAKING: Hegseth allows military to carry personal firearms on all bases.

It's about time.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (abIsI)

It truly is - this is one of his best decisions. Especially since we're at war, and all our bases were pathetically easy targets to sleeper cells...now they aren't...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (tOcjL)

198 pudinhead

General George has an incredible resume. Lots of command time in combat. His known policy changes are sound. But a Biden pick, so who knows what he says when his advice is asked for.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (u82oZ)

199 South Korea is doing final development on their Cheongung-II air defense system. Not sure if it is good for missiles but it seems to do drones and rockets quite adequately, and at a cheaper cost than Patriots.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)

200 How is TJM going to top "yummy shit pebbles."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:27 PM


Covenant?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (0sNs1)

201 Ground invasion?

Like hundreds of thousands of troops?

Do they just magically teleported over there? Or is there some kind of extended series of elaborate steps that need to be taken to get the troops and support material to the area first?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
======
Army Chief of Staff is a high ranking staffer, not battlefield commander which indicates the utter stupidity of leftists and military matters beyond transing troops.

Part of what may have gotten him fired was that he axed the prepositioned Merchant Marine supply ships for Marines and Army under Biden. Those ships would be useful for any actual invasions, even small ones rather than waiting on a lengthy sea voyage. See Konrad on X for more of that internal Pentagon dispute.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (E4rtv)

202 If they shot it down, and if they have our service members, it’s time to end this whole thing. And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper


Given what we've heard, I suspect there's a large fraction of the Iranian pop who would help a downed pilot of ours.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

203 191
Carter Gardens, 1 Woodland Dr, Plains, GA 31780

Just in case anybody wants to visit Jimmah's grave site and go all Virginia AG on it.
Posted by: Auspex


Is it true that all of the trees in the vicinity of his grave are starting to die?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (abIsI)

204 @187 Like a bunch of Millenium Falcons, sometimes you gotta hit the console to get the hyperdrive to engage.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (cWLG3)

205 Ground invasion?

Like hundreds of thousands of troops?

The left is tremendously excited about the idea that any day now we're going to send a Market Garden-sized mass invasion into Iran. All the neocon twerps are thinking the same thing, along with fools like Tucker and Matt Walsh.

That's not happening. We're not invading Iran. We're not gonna occupy Iran.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (El6/E)
_

What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (iFTx/)

206 Keith Olbermann reposted
Arieh Kovler
@ariehkovler
·
20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?
Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (CWTWj)


If I understand how the 'modern' military works, the Army Chief of Staff - who was the General relieved, I believe - doesn't actually command the troops and wouldn't be involved in the invasion even if the Army became involved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

207 Lots of imagery of SAR aircraft in the search. Speed and altitude suggest very permissive environment (there was one video of a C-130 dispensing flares).

IF these videos are from Iran, and current. But they look legit. Day-time - and I don't know when the aircraft went down.

Also one knowledgeable comment I saw said that the squadron involved was flying 30+ year-old F-15s, and suggested that age/mechanical incident was likely, though I can't address that.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (U/Byj)

208 Is there an over/under for when the go signal for rebellion goes up? I'm betting 4/20.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (4NO2D)

209 Hegseth allows military to carry personal firearms on all bases./i]

The usual suspects are breathless about this, predicting massive gun fights on bases and dead people all over the place. They think it means that soldiers will walk around with a rifle and sidearm like they're on combat patrol or something, and that soldiers are stupid, violent, and crazed killers who cannot wait to shoot something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (El6/E)

210 Could you imagine Somalia today if Trump had been president when the Blackhawk was shot down and they dragged the bodies through the streets?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (2WIwB)

211 Oh goodness, Pete is back for more abuse.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

212 >>>And I mean end it where the country needs to be rebuilt from the ashes. I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.

Leftists or Islamists?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:56 PM (dK+Kv)

213 What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM


Do unlimited breadsticks come with that?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 12:56 PM (4NO2D)

214 I cannot take seriously a poster whose handle is"Masturbatin' Pete ( although I suppose he's trying valiantly bait us) because it's sounds like an eighth grade name, so I entirely skip over his posts.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 12:56 PM (PFs9e)

215 What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?

I doubt even the US military could handle the need for that many unlimited breadsticks.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (Riz8t)

216 My wife said I looked like a SS agent. (I'll assume competence was implied)
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM


Given SS performances in the last few years, competence is no longer something to be assumed, unfortunately.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)

217 I'll never forget in the last war, having to guard the base entry WITHOUT a weapon. To say all of us junior officers thought this was ludicrous was an understatement. I think more than a few male LTs said "so if we find an issue with the car or occupant, we're pretty much gonna be red shirts at that point while we wait for the armed guards to show up?"...and got the nod from the Colonel, who didn't want to say this was stupid, but knew this was stupid...

Nothing like 6am gate guard duty without any training or any weapon...even though we were all trained at least on weapons...

So, yes, thanks Hegsgeth, from all junior officers who won't have to do that weaponless again...at least not if they don't want to...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (tOcjL)

218 207
What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (iFTx/)
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"Unlimited bread sticks" is code for artillery barrage.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (cWLG3)

219 Jinx

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (4NO2D)

220 I cannot take seriously a poster whose handle is"Masturbatin' Pete ( although I suppose he's trying valiantly bait us) because it's sounds like an eighth grade name, so I entirely skip over his posts.
Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 12:56 PM (PFs9e)



How would you feel, say, someone posted with the handle "CharlieBrown'sDildo?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

221 Your histrionics aside Ace, I have a very simple question for you:

If this war costs the Republicans the Congress in 2026, and then costs the White House in 2028, and President Newsome proudly signs into the law the American Rejuvenation Act of 2029 which provides amnesty for every illegal immigrant and legalizes the immigration of millions per year, thus permanently destroying the Republican Party as a national political force then was this war worth it?

You win elections by being on the public's side on the issues. Either by changing your party platform to align with the majority view, or by persuading the people that your views are correct. Going against the majority view, and not even attempting to persuade the public, is how you end up with massive electoral losses.

The Iraq War led to the disaster of Obama. If the Iran War leads to President Ocasio Cortez, backed by a Congressional majority, then the historic American nation will cease to exist. The midterms are already lost, but if this war can be wrapped up quickly, we have a chance of holding the White House in 2028.




Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (DMmvN)

222 I cannot take seriously a poster whose handle is"Masturbatin' Pete ( although I suppose he's trying valiantly bait us) because it's sounds like an eighth grade name, so I entirely skip over his posts.

Have you looked at some of the OTHER nics around here?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (Riz8t)

223 Hegseth allows military to carry personal firearms on all bases./i]

The usual suspects are breathless about this, predicting massive gun fights on bases and dead people all over the place. They think it means that soldiers will walk around with a rifle and sidearm like they're on combat patrol or something, and that soldiers are stupid, violent, and crazed killers who cannot wait to shoot something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (El6/E)
***

Today's Factoid: Auto insurance on a military installations used by the troops (most use USAA) is cheaper than the surrounding communities. Why? Because it is safer.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

224 My wife said I looked like a SS agent.

Just don't shoot your ass off.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (abIsI)

225 >>>My wife said I looked like a SS agent.

An out of shape lesbian?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (dK+Kv)

226 Oh goodness, Pete is back for more abuse.

==

Never misses a chance to shit on the US, blame the US, and scream about neocons.


Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (GD0B3)

227 Sometimes the Secret Servoce can holster their weapons without shooting themselves in the ass.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (52ERr)

228 Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM

If is carrying a lot of load here.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (4NO2D)

229 Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (CKIwv)

Shut the fuck up, you rancid little cunt.

You have crossed the line. Next you get banned.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (n9ltV)

230 >>>7 Strangely, no one has linked Kristy Noem's veto of the South Dakota bill in 2021 that would've banned men in women's sports to the fact that her husband likes to gay-play "Glen or Glenda?" on the internet.
https://tinyurl.com/aswmbarm
Posted by: Brisco County Sr

yup. And it was an illegal alien who wanted vengeance for deportation that outed her pervert husband. So it's not as if blackmail/punishment for politics wasn't in the mix.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (1wjle)

231 So many unfamiliar nics. One can get lost in this 1% shite.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3)

232 I'm old enough to remember when we cared that 50,000 innocent civilians were killed by the mullahs.

Exactly one plane loss later and is kill-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out time.

Neocons, man.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at April

I am young enough to desire the US actually winning wars and reminding others of our superiority. I am also not excited about the concept of 3rd world ruffians wishing I would dress in trash bags, Balenciaga or otherwise.

Democrats. Ugh.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (pZEOD)

233 The left is tremendously excited about the idea that any day now we're going to send a Market Garden-sized mass invasion into Iran. All the neocon twerps are thinking the same thing, along with fools like Tucker and Matt Walsh.

That's not happening. We're not invading Iran. We're not gonna occupy Iran.
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Everyone seems to have forgotten we assembled, what?, half a million troops to invade Iraq, and it took six months to do it. Iran is several times larger. So we'd need more manpower (and no allies), and it would probably take longer to set up.

And of course Trump hasn't suggested any interest in doing it.

Posted by: Methos at April 03, 2026 12:59 PM (vSvIl)

234 I cannot take seriously a poster whose handle is"Masturbatin' Pete ( although I suppose he's trying valiantly bait us) because it's sounds like an eighth grade name, so I entirely skip over his posts.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 12:56 PM (PFs9e)

Masturbatin' Pete is fine, although a bit self-clownish of late. We can allow for a little disagreement here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (dK+Kv)

235 What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?

Even the USA cannot afford a budget that high

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (El6/E)

236 You win elections by being on the public's side on the issues. Either by changing your party platform to align with the majority view, or by persuading the people that your views are correct. Going against the majority view, and not even attempting to persuade the public, is how you end up with massive electoral losses...The midterms are already lost, but if this war can be wrapped up quickly, we have a chance of holding the White House in 2028.


Yup, you should do exactly nothing, and that way you run no risks. Great strategy. Also, check the polling.

Finally, your concern is noted.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

237 It's true. We've had every base in the region vaporized since about day 3. All personnel dead.

The new East Wing is really just a hiding spot for body bags now.

That's why the patriotic judge is trying to stop the construction, so we can uncover Trump's crimes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Candace, it's bad form to sock the regulars around here.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (aJmLS)

238 Masturbatin' Pete is fine, although a bit self-clownish of late. We can allow for a little disagreement here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (dK+Kv)

True, but "pete" does more than disagree...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (FtULh)

239 Just in case anybody wants to visit Jimmah's grave site and go all Virginia AG on it.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM


I suspect Jane Fonda's grave will be getting some visitations.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (0sNs1)

240 I'm old enough to remember when Democrats abrogated our treaty with South Vietnam, after they had defeated the North's Easter Offensive without any US ground troops.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (4NO2D)

241 Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:57

Yes, but I'm willing to overlook slightly dopey nics if they have cogent points to make and don't reflexively hate America or Israel.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (rZCVI)

242 So, they believe the Taliban and Iranian press corps over our own US Miltary sources.

Good to know.
Posted by: Sponge

When you put it that way...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (aJmLS)

243 Masturbatin' Pete is fine, although a bit self-clownish of late. We can allow for a little disagreement here.

Concur. Let him spout his nonsense. We don't have to respond.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

244 I am young enough to desire the US actually winning wars and reminding others of our superiority.

THe US hasn't won a war in my lifetime

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (El6/E)

245 What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?

Would you like some napalm on your salad?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (abIsI)

246 Masturbatin' Pete is fine,

==

He is not fine. He only shows up for one thing only.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (GD0B3)

247 >>>If this war costs the Republicans the Congress in 2026, and then costs the White House in 2028, and President Newsome proudly signs into the law the American Rejuvenation Ac

I'm tired of you faggots threatening to defect to the left to blackmail us into joining you. Fuck you. You're all Nick Fuentes cunts anyway who either vote for Democrats or third party extremists or can't vote because you have records or don't want the government to know where you live.

"Joining the Nazis is the only way to defeat the Communists"

well if you're really keen to defeat the communists, have you thought about joining US? The non-Nazis?

No, you haven't. I don't even believe you're a voter, or a taxpayer.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (1wjle)

248 So we have an on-going 'action' in a far-away part of the world and concurrently a moon shot taking place.

Does anybody else feel like we're reliving the '60's ?

What's that quote about history not repeating, but it does rhyme?

I'm not ready to check out, but this sure feels like where I came in....LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (QGaXH)

249 238
Yup, you should do exactly nothing, and that way you run no risks. Great strategy. Also, check the polling.

Finally, your concern is noted.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

========

Trump should give up on any sort of long term goals in terms of governing because there might be a short term blowback.

This is the kind of thinking that led Democrats to say, "You know what? We shouldn't let it 15 million people into the country in 4 years. What if we lose the midterms? We can only do long term effective change if we hold onto Congress during the midterms."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (hAotW)

250 True, but "pete" does more than disagree...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:00 PM (FtULh)

I allow that I haven't yet seen much more than he receives.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (dK+Kv)

251 187 That is one of the stated complaints about the A-10, they are garage queens that require constant maintenance and are a pain to keep in the air.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Air Force fighter jet jockeys run the service and they hated A-10s for decades. They want to zoom when CAS needs a much slower plane that can take enormous punishment yet dish it out on the cheap. In a peer war, we are NOT going to have endless supplies of hitech and expensive missile systems to fight with. Even now, Tomahawks and other expensive missiles and/or precision ordnance are running short. Fortunately we can use old dumb bombs or JDAM equipped instead of standoff weapons with Iran now.

Jet Jockeys always are wanting new fighter aircraft or to a lesser extent bombers out there as a budget issue rather than the pedestrian airlift aircraft, tankers, our AF nuclear land missiles, and CAS support.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (E4rtv)

252 I'm somewhat surprised that no one has posted that the SAR mission could be to extract single Persian Christian women, because the soldiers, sailors, and airmen are getting lonely on the other side of the world.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (S/Y4j)

253 Or Tiger Woods was driving.
Posted by: ballistic

Well. He is Asian

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (Fn30I)

254 He is not fine. He only shows up for one thing only.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (GD0B3)

Not my circus. The proprietors have spoken.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (dK+Kv)

255 251 So we have an on-going 'action' in a far-away part of the world and concurrently a moon shot taking place.

Does anybody else feel like we're reliving the '60's ?

What's that quote about history not repeating, but it does rhyme?

I'm not ready to check out, but this sure feels like where I came in....LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:02 PM (QGaXH)

I did mention LBJ upthread...of course, we'd really rather not relive the 70s...so we need to decade skip to the 80s somehow afterwards...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (tOcjL)

256 I am sorry, but there is no negotiation possible with monsters, and a lesson needs to be made.
Posted by: Piper
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The only way to be safe is to eliminate the threat.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (XeU6L)

257 20h
Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?
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His acronym is CSA - Chief of Staff of the Army. I always read it as Confederate States of America.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (n17eQ)

258 You don't give a shit about the Iranian people. You just love war.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at April 03, 2026 12:53 PM (CKIwv)


Like you, the IRGC is not a credible negotiation partner. They lie, hide things, misrepresent things, and renounce any position that they accept to keep some sort of "moral" upper hand.

When such a lying and dishonest party to a negotiation appears, sometimes the only solution is to bomb them until they decide to approach either reality or at least admit they are wrong about some things instead of arrogantly claiming the win for making the other parties give up in disgust.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

259 Pete is a leftist, bragged about voting for dems. Concern troll.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (GD0B3)

260 >>>Neocons, man.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete

there's a site called stormfront that might suit you better. I'm sure you're familiar with the address.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (1wjle)

261 246 Deleted

Concur. Let him spout his nonsense. We don't have to respond.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

I thought we didn't feed trolls...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:04 PM (QGaXH)

262 Maybe just a time out for MP. He's rants are starting to bet a bit spittleflecked.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:04 PM (4NO2D)

263 Does anybody else feel like we're reliving the '60's ?
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Yeah, but its the 1860s we are reliving. This time its the Yankees running slaves.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:04 PM (n17eQ)

264 pete, take a break until Tuesday or I will take it for you.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:04 PM (1wjle)

265 I hate nazis but especially Illinois nazis.

Posted by: Hyacinth at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (ryp7h)

266 I cannot type.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (4NO2D)

267 and maybe longer

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (1wjle)

268 263 Pete is a leftist, bragged about voting for dems. Concern troll.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (GD0B3)

Or paid (or glowing) - can't discount those options...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (tOcjL)

269 St Michael the Archangel and St Joseph of Cupertino, protect and defend these pilots and lead them safely home.
We ask this through Christ, our Savior.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (eZ5tL)

270 How many states recognize Good Friday as a state holiday?

It was a company holiday at a former employer. On the calendar for the Canadian sites, it was "Good Friday." On the calendar for the US sites it was "Spring Holiday."

(Bonus point for me for remembering to desock before hitting Post.)

Posted by: Oddbob at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (vTZFs)

271 Concur. Let him spout his nonsense. We don't have to respond.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

I thought we didn't feed trolls...?


My point. If nobody answers him, he'll get bored and go away.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

272 263 Pete is a leftist, bragged about voting for dems. Concern troll.
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:03 PM (GD0B3)
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Neil Young rants about neocons too.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Open Source INT Analyst at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (cWLG3)

273 Masturbatin' Pete

We have shown by our targeting theat the IRGC is the focus of our attack. The rest of Iran is comparatively untouched, esp. by WWII standards. There is no Hamburg, Dresden nor Tokyo level attacks. And no nuclear weapons.

We are striking as precise as our technology allows.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (u82oZ)

274 Masturbatin' Pete is fine, although a bit self-clownish of late. We can allow for a little disagreement here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Eh, his eleven year TDS sperging is boring, tedious, and makes him a prime candidate to scroll over. Not even worth engaging at this point on anything.

Now he comes about like the BINO appearance late in a recent thread to drop his turds and wanting engagement. Life is too short for that shit online nowadays.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (E4rtv)

275 A source familiar with my imagination claims I fondled Sydney Sweeny's breasts last night.

Posted by: davidt at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (Q+gd/)

276 Posted by: Hyacinth at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM

Oh, Lord, it's that Bucket woman again.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (Wnv9h)

277 I love all the cute little names they come up with.

Neocons, everythingphobe.


I will simply call them: Asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

278 Neil Young rants about neocons too.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
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This Southern Man don't need him around anyhow.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (E4rtv)

279 They want to zoom when CAS needs a much slower plane that can take enormous punishment yet dish it out on the cheap.

Yeah this is the real reason they oppose the A-10. I mean, they have B-52s still active, and they are like twice the age of an A-10

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (El6/E)

280 You win elections by being on the public's side on the issues. Either by changing your party platform to align with the majority view, or by persuading the people that your views are correct. Going against the majority view, and not even attempting to persuade the public, is how you end up with massive electoral losses.
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You aren't the majority. You do not speak for the majority. You are just you, and you don't matter all that much.

Posted by: Methos at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (vSvIl)

281 The left is tremendously excited about the idea that any day now we're going to send a Market Garden-sized mass invasion into Iran. All the neocon twerps are thinking the same thing, along with fools like Tucker and Matt Walsh.

That's not happening. We're not invading Iran. We're not gonna occupy Iran.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:52 PM (El6/E)
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There are a shocking number of people in the media sphere that stauchly refuse to learn the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. Tucker is a midwit so that tracks. Matt Walsh is a fucking doofus that I have never understood why anyone pays attention to him.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)

282 >>>278 Masturbatin' Pete is fine, although a bit self-clownish of late. We can allow for a little disagreement here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Eh, his eleven year TDS sperging is boring, tedious, and makes him a prime candidate to scroll over. Not even worth engaging at this point on anything.

Now he comes about like the BINO appearance late in a recent thread to drop his turds and wanting engagement. Life is too short for that shit online nowadays

Disagree, he has not been a regular for years. He has plainly gone over to some other site, and that's fine, but then he pops over here just to troll. I do not need trolls and do not feel the need to subject my actual readers and commenters to bad-tempered unemployed trolls.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (1wjle)

283 Guys, is it good when you fire the head of the army in the middle of a war ahead of a possible controversial ground invasion? It's a thing you do if you're winning, right?
Posted by: gnats local 678

It's not like firing McClellan or Fredendall, generals in the field who are losing or performing below expectations. The Chief is an admin position and adviser...I'm guessing some of his advice or predictions weren't accurate.

Interestingly, a Google summary shows Hegseth has relieved several senior leaders, most recently and of highest importance:

Hegseth also removed two other senior Army generals: Gen. David Hodne, head of the Army’s Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Army’s Chief of Chaplains. The moves are part of a broader purge of top military officials since Hegseth took office, including the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the previous Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (aJmLS)

284 Damn, Pud Pullin' Pete is still coming here?

Why?

For fucks sake, why?

Although his retarded comments are sometimes kind of funny....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (dmDsy)

285 the trolls are revolting!!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

286 There really is no half-stepping regime change.

Especially when the plan is counting on an unarmed populace to do the heavy lifting.

If the end goal is regime change in Iran, then there really is no alternative to boots on the ground.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (XV/Pl)

287 Their new headline claims the US (or, perhaps, Israel) has successfully "rescued" one of the two pilots and continue searching for the other:



If you got one you got both.
Not like they are going to split up like some horror movie.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (/lPRQ)

288 *eyes pants*

Meh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 12:36 PM (dK+Kv)

My eyes pant when I see Karen Gillan.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (mWRBW)

289 Just know, if ace takes, your entire history on this site will be obliterated and there will be no evidence you ever existed.


Not sure how I know that.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

290 pete, go away, I am about to ban you permanently.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (1wjle)

291 290 the trolls are revolting!!
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

They stink on ice

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (FtULh)

292 Or paid (or glowing) - can't discount those options...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (tOcjL)

or...he does sound like the Young Turks...

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (GD0B3)

293 I do not need trolls and do not feel the need to subject my actual readers and commenters to bad-tempered unemployed trolls.

His name suggests he is not COMPLETELY unemployed.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

294 290 the trolls are revolting!!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (GD0B3)

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And they stink on ice!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (hAotW)

295 Masturbatin' Pete

I view you as a member in good standing. We can disagree, which sharpens our arguments.

What course would you recommend, and who should be in charge?

However, choosing inaction gets a lot of innocents killed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

296 Pete, it's Good Friday so, no meat today. Tell you dads boyfriend not to come over.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (abIsI)

297 There are a shocking number of people in the media sphere that stauchly refuse to learn the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our erstwhile friend Pete is among them. They have one template and only understand that one way of seeing every single military action.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (El6/E)

298 the trolls are revolting!!
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM


You said it, they stink on ice!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (Wnv9h)

299 294 Just know, if ace takes, your entire history on this site will be obliterated and there will be no evidence you ever existed.


Not sure how I know that.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

========

Yeah, but trolls know how to use VPNs and just keep coming back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:08 PM (hAotW)

300 don't talk to pete because I'm going to ban him if he comments again and you are encouraging him

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (1wjle)

301 290 the trolls are revolting!!
Posted by: runner

They stink on ice!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (tcsrY)

302 Oh goodness, Pete is back for more abuse.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)
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Well, "self abuse" is his first name, so that tracks...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (ESVrU)

303 Yeah this is the real reason they oppose the A-10. I mean, they have B-52s still active, and they are like twice the age of an A-10
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Air Force pilots love B52s. Much better experience for transferring to commercial piloting.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (aJmLS)

304 >>>I also simply can't accept that Trump is a master strategist who always knows what he's doing and is always seven steps ahead.

A strawman, to be sure.

He lands on his feet a lot more often than his reflexive detractors like to give him credit. That's a yuge blind spot that the emotionally-driven TDS-afflicted can't bear to acknowledge about themselves.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (dK+Kv)

305 I appreciate your fairness.
The sad fact is that I see a lot of people making the same neoconservative mistakes that were made 20-plus years ago. I also simply can't accept that Trump is a master strategist who always knows what he's doing and is always seven steps ahead.
But those opinions aren't tolerated by many here
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (CKIwv)
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My bro you come on here yammering about how everyone else is a warmongering neocon yet you're the one who has said we should launch a full-scale ground invasion or do nothing at all.

You DO realize that that position is the neocon position, right? Or did you eat paint chips while headbutting a wall during your childhood?

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (oqH4h)

306 Buckethead > Bucket woman

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

307 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (XV/Pl)

Trump could never announce his true goal because the moment he does Iran and their friends the Global and Domestic Left would fight every inch of it to give him a "fail". And yes I've been saying this from Day 1, it's not a retroactive justification. And anyone with a lick of sense knows it's true. His true end game cannot be known and will only be seen afterward. Or he's gonna crazy and is owned by Israel and the Intelligence Agencies that sought to personally destroy him and his family 150,000 times over.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (mWRBW)

308 294 Just know, if ace takes, your entire history on this site will be obliterated and there will be no evidence you ever existed.


Not sure how I know that.........
Posted by: Sponge
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That actually sounds pretty good to me. Making AOS like snapchat is just fine. I have other avenues for permanent publication (and have done it).

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (E4rtv)

309 don't talk to pete because I'm going to ban him if he comments again and you are encouraging him

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (1wjle)

Sorry. Overlapping comments.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (dK+Kv)

310 o
@Realneo101
·
2h
🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.

photo
https://tinyurl.com/7e6azdmw

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

311 Gone crazy not gonna crazy

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (mWRBW)

312 Masturbatin' Pete

After what ace said, I no longer consider you in good standing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (u82oZ)

313 goodbye

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (1wjle)

314 247 I am young enough to desire the US actually winning wars and reminding others of our superiority.

THe US hasn't won a war in my lifetime
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026

Same.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (Wmg4n)

315 On a separate note, since Paul above mentioned hobos, Tubi, Prime and PlutoTV have "Hobo With A Shotgun."

Action, Comedy and Horror.

Hmmm.

Since I'm tak___ care of doggy Ralphy, I'm just watching stupid, crazy stuff. Never really did that.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

316 Probably an Illinois Nazi.

I hate Illinois Nazis.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (IifOV)

317 You've said the same fucking thing 100 times now. We got it. There is no further usefulness to us of additional repetitions of the same Nazi talking points.
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Whats the point of going through life as a stupid fucking nazi if cant act like a stupid fucking nazi??

Posted by: SFN GONNA SFN at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (Ha2dl)

318 BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

==

I guess they ran out of 12 year old "volunteers"..

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (GD0B3)

319 My eyes pant when I see Karen Gillan.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:07 PM (mWRBW)

With eye-tongues hanging out?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

320 317 o
@Realneo101
·
2h
🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.

photo
https://tinyurl.com/7e6azdmw

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)

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Well, Iraq might get interesting with their unofficial terrorist regional governments emptying out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM (hAotW)

321 The good news about Pete is we aren't talking about Tucker. The Tucker thing is boring like LOTR boring.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (n17eQ)

322 If you want to win a disagreement about Trump, you likely should avoid saying he never learns and is Owebama like..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

323 **Twelve states** in the United States recognize Good Friday as a state holiday. These states are Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.

Posted by: I'm the internet. I'm here to help at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (2Ez/1)

324 Just know, if ace takes, your entire history on this site will be obliterated and there will be no evidence you ever existed.


Ecclesiastes 9:5-6:
"For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (Riz8t)

325
As it happens I know the exact spot of William Milliken's grave as well.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (Y8DZL)

326 goodbye

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Shalom!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (GD0B3)

327 People can have opinions that they want to share but I really don't understand getting all worked up about something where we know actually nothing for a fact about what is going on, what is planned, or how things will turn out. And that we have literally zero influence over.

Friends this is a 'appy occasion, the Islamists are getting pasted like nobodies business, let's not bicker and argue 'bout 'oo killed 'oo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (4NO2D)

328 2h
🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.


Saw that on Tousi... More than one large group has come over

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (FtULh)

329 goodbye
Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:10 PM


Boom! goes the dynamite.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (Wnv9h)

330 The good news about Pete is we aren't talking about Tucker. The Tucker thing is boring like LOTR boring.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (n17eQ)

Dude, the banhammer is ALREADY warmed up and waiting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (dK+Kv)

331 🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.

photo
https://tinyurl.com/7e6azdmw
Posted by: Don Black


See my prior comment on the use of napalm. or cluster munitions.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (abIsI)

332 The good news about Pete is we aren't talking about Tucker. The Tucker thing is boring like LOTR boring.
Posted by: pudinhead

you are on thin ice , buddy!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (GD0B3)

333 Might be time for a nice, feel-Good Friday post. You know, something shitting on Hollywood, dunking on some leftwing homosexual getting his nuts fried off when he tries to fuck the toaster, bears being out of control, or hot girls with great racks.

The Blade's 2 cents!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

334 UPDATE!

It's now magically transformed into an F-35!

Current Report
@Currentreport1
BREAKING:
IRGC releases another footage showing a US F-35 stealth fighter jet destroyed over central Iran.

https://is.gd/59SPT7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (ndZc7)

335
photo
https://tinyurl.com/7e6azdmw

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (ZxPkt)




Seems like a target rich environment where they're all just gathered there.....waiting......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

336 That's four 'They stink on ice' comments. Gotta love Horde mind.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:12 PM (NcvvS)

337 274 How many states recognize Good Friday as a state holiday?

It was a company holiday at a former employer. On the calendar for the Canadian sites, it was "Good Friday." On the calendar for the US sites it was "Spring Holiday."

(Bonus point for me for remembering to desock before hitting Post.)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM (vTZFs)

OMG - got so engrossed in the conversation I forgot I even posted the question!

The answer is 12 - Hi, ND, TX, LA, IN, KY, TN, NC, FL, NJ CT, DE (surprisingly!)

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (QGaXH)

338 Sorry for encouraging the troll after you said not to, boss.

I take some solace in the fact that the last reply he potentially read was me calling him a retard.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (oqH4h)

339 322 The good news about Pete is we aren't talking about Tucker. The Tucker thing is boring like LOTR boring.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:11 PM (n17eQ

Don't compare LOTR to Cucker... The books are a good read.. I'm nearly finished with the Fellowship of the Rings

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (FtULh)

340 >>>It's now magically transformed into an F-35!

That's actually the first version I saw this morning and thought Ace had gotten it wrong.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)

341 What about an Olive Garden-sized invasion?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (iFTx/)


Only if we get the free breadsticks and that spicy sausage soup as well. That's good eatin'

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

342 Masturbatin' Pete

I view you as a member in good standing. We can disagree, which sharpens our arguments.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

don't talk to pete because I'm going to ban him if he comments again and you are encouraging him
Posted by: ace

I know who I'd want to keep happy between these two...NaCly Dog, because he's never banned himself from the site lol. That Ace is a loose cannon!

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 01:13 PM (aJmLS)

343 > REAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.

photo
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All those juicy, soft targets.... out in the goddamn open!! A-10's you say?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (AkEZC)

344 my plan is to take most of the day off so I'm putting up with zero shit-stirring. I do not want to be trapped working because Nazis have decided that Good Friday is the day they really need to get the word out about the Good News About Naziism.

I told pete to fuck off until Tuesday. He ignored me. He is now gone and permanently banned.

Today is not the day for shit-stirring, trolls. I know you have empty lives that consist of nothing but bothering people on the internet, but normal people with healthy lives have more than that.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (1wjle)

345 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: Democrats and the MSM at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (0sNs1)

346 🎶 Thunderstruck🎵

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (mWRBW)

347 I liked the Wedding Soup.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (52ERr)

348 but normal people with healthy lives have more than that.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:14 PM (1wjle)

And so do the people here!

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (mWRBW)

349 *lights cigarette*

Posted by: Mjölnir at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (9opXP)

350 >>>my plan is to take most of the day off

Enjoy. We'll "take care" of the place.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (dK+Kv)

351 @314

>>Trump could never announce his true goal because the moment he does Iran and their friends the Global and Domestic Left would fight every inch of it to give him a "fail".

We're beyond all of that now, the administration has initiated kinetic operations, we are for all intents and purposes at war with Iran, the stated end goal is regime change, we are not going to change the regime from the air no matter how many Cardboard Ayatollahs we take out, Iran still has the ability and opportunity to initiate attacks against the US, Israel and the surrounding region.

It's a mess to be sure, but it's got to get messier before this is all said and done.

We can't simply cut bait and skiddadle at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (XV/Pl)

352 343 > REAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people


They need pagers for communications. Big pagers.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (Sco7b)

353 Might be time for a nice, feel-Good Friday post. You know, something shitting on Hollywood, dunking on some leftwing homosexual getting his nuts fried off when he tries to f*** the toaster, bears being out of control, or hot girls with great racks.


Ah, the classics.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t)

354 291 There really is no half-stepping regime change.

Especially when the plan is counting on an unarmed populace to do the heavy lifting.

If the end goal is regime change in Iran, then there really is no alternative to boots on the ground.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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Contra example Serbia-Kosovo. Resulted in Milosevic being turned over to the Euros for trial.

We basically have never bombed a country back to the Stone Age like we have been capable of doing for quite some time. Destroy Kharg Island complex, Iran loses the ability to export 90 percent of its oil. Do bombing raids on occasion whenever it appears that the Iranians are trying to rebuild missile or obtain that uranium or even the Chicoms/Russians trying to smuggle some new shit in for them. Note that the Russians are requesting safe passage for their techs leaving Bushehr (sp) nuke plant because it is likely that we are going to take it offline in the new future.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (E4rtv)

355 318 BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

*******************

Looks like an ideal place to deploy an A-10 or five.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (X+xvk)

356 many of the posts today are blow-off silly posts.

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (1wjle)

357 The F 35s seem to be working. Maybe stealth is the ticket.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (52ERr)

358 trolls love them weekends, holidays and ONTs

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (GD0B3)

359 11 But is it plant based and copper infused?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 03, 2026 12:12 PM (Kt19C)
Because saying “vegetarian”is JUST TOO HARD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (E6xSb)

360 And so do the people here!

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (mWRBW)

*Tucker Carlson confused, smelled a fart look*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)

361 ace

Message received.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

362 Iran crowing about shooting down an F15 (old US technology) after 30+ days of non-stop bombing and thousands of sorties isn't really the flex they're acting like it is.

Posted by: Military Moron at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (aJmLS)

363 350 >>>my plan is to take most of the day off

Enjoy. We'll "take care" of the place.


*cue ominous music*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

364 Stealth is the way to go over enemy territory

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (Ia/+0)

365 BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

*******************

Looks like an ideal place to deploy an A-10 or five.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (X+xvk)

U.S. is not party to the cluster bomb ban treaty, right?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (dK+Kv)

366 >>>my plan is to take most of the day off

Enjoy. We'll "take care" of the place.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM



Party at Ace's!

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (4NO2D)

367 I’m thinking of changing my nic to Publius in honor of the Federalist Papers

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (xT8gx)

368 Trump can not negotiate with a regime that shoots down our planes and imports foreign troops to kill civilians, while pretending to be reasonable

these desert goat-herding MFers have to be destroyed

this is a generational opportunity to clean up the Middle East

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (ZxPkt)

369 276 Posted by: Hyacinth at April 03, 2026 01:05 PM

Oh, Lord, it's that Bucket woman again.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (Wnv9h)

Pronounced as 'Bouquet' as I recall.

RIP Hyacinth actress. Passed away last year, I believe.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (QGaXH)

370 May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (Wmg4n)

371 I fail to see the value to a stance that says American boots must die on the ground as opposed to targeting the evil faction that's been murdering it's citizens for 40+ years and blowing them to smithereens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

372 The Iraq War led to the disaster of Obama.

Nope. I'm over 29, so I know that Dubya's retarded attempt to pass blanket amnesty in 2006 and the global financial meltdown instigated by Soros in 2008 were the causes. And even then John McCain still was favored to win until he suspended his campaign because Palin was too popular with voters.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (2ocoG)

373 What they need is a 30 day respite under a Muslim regime, they can get back to us on how well it turned out for them.
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 12:20 PM (71y1j)

We LOVED it! Islam is SO SUPER-NEATO!!!

Posted by: U.S. media at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (E6xSb)

374 May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (Wmg4n)

Are you also making sammiches for everyone?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (xT8gx)

375 The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.
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I'm not sure how much of a difference 'hundreds' are going to make, but it seems like they wouldn't invite them in if they didn't need them.

Also, it will sure be a shame when the locals call Mossad on them.

Posted by: Methos at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (vSvIl)

376 306 Buckethead > Bucket woman
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)


Nice! Nottingham Lace for the WIN!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (dmDsy)

377 this is a generational opportunity to clean up the Middle East
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The British tried that. It didn't work out all that well. Just pump the oil and stand back when they go all crazy.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (n17eQ)

378 Enjoy. We'll "take care" of the place.

*cue ominous music*
***
And Obligatory Seinfeld References.

Posted by: Plus Airplane! at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)

379 🚨BREAKING: The Islamic regime is now importing hundreds of battle-hardened Iraqi militias into the country to brutally suppress its own people.

These foreign fighters — loyal to Tehran’s terrorist network — are flooding across the borders RIGHT NOW, armed and ready to crush any uprising attempting to end this blood-soaked dictatorship.


Saw that on Tousi... More than one large group has come over
Posted by: It's me donna
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They all look the same when the bombs fall from above. Hamburger.

And there is a reason that the Iraqi militias are going to be hated and called in for air strikes. They are Arabs, most of the important areas of Iran are Persians. They dislike Arabs in the first place and Arab mercenaries for the regime are viewed as lower than low.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

380 Pronounced as 'Bouquet' as I recall.

Carole Bouquet; still one of the hottest Bond girls ever. She's now 68, and still looks good.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

381 Ace I want to genuinely wish you a Happy Easter and hope it's a truly Good day for you. I personally feel the weight of today differently every year, as I change and my understanding of Jesus and maybe even God changes.

Today has been particularly heavy in it. I appreciate you giving us this little timeless (and I do mean timeless) safe haven of internet where the values of your readers and commenters are generally respected and not insulted like 99.99% of the "conservative" sites end up doing. The site has had its moments but your humor and overall sense of fairness has been the engine that drives it and keeps it going despite politics generally being a very sucky thing to talk about. I really thank God we still have this fun little place.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (mWRBW)

382 84 Seriously... annihilate a holy site. That Fatima shrine in Qom would be a good choice. Or that stupid fuckin' well.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (BI5O2)

Ever read The Sum Of All Fears?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (E6xSb)

383 I say we burn the Geneva Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons at this point.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (abIsI)

384
"The usual suspects are breathless about this, predicting massive gun fights on bases and dead people all over the place. They think it means that soldiers will walk around with a rifle and sidearm like they're on combat patrol or something, and that soldiers are stupid, violent, and crazed killers who cannot wait to shoot something."

The left and the leftmedia could care less about our military personnel. They salivate at the prospect of mass American casualties that they think would score political points for them.

Ignorant, loathsome, vermin. I would say, God help them, but I would rather they faced his wrath.

Posted by: RM at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (n/1Oj)

385 *Tucker Carlson confused, smelled a fart look*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM


You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & California's next Governor) at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (0sNs1)

386
this is a generational opportunity to clean up the Middle East

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM

This. It's time to reset the region after the last 50-60 years of fiddling. Destroy them, and deal with whats left. Abraham Accord the heck out the region and clean slate it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (IifOV)

387 u
*Tucker Carlson confused, smelled a fart look*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM (dK+Kv)



He interviewed Eric Swalwell?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

388 Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

I've been to the barrel enough times. ace banned me early on. I have learned ... caution. Just a tad.

ace has the tools to hurt a commenter.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (u82oZ)

389 282 "....bad-tempered unemployed trolls."

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (1wjle)

I resemble that remark.......LOL!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (QGaXH)

390 381 — I second that!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (xT8gx)

391 I think they mean hundreds of groups, not hundreds of individuals

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (ZxPkt)

392 374 Are you also making sammiches for everyone?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026

I draw the line at cutting crust off.

Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (Wmg4n)

393 Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (QGaXH)

Wonderful actress. Great singer and she was a nice person too. She was also a Christian. She made me laugh so many times as Hyacinrh.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (PFs9e)

394 Pray for the lone crewman still on the ground
If caught it will be horrible for him

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (nGraA)

395 Party at Ace's!

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:17 PM (4NO2D)

*sits fat ass on rickety shelf*

*creepily ogles the 'ettes*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (dK+Kv)

396 May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM

####

Wait. ace has Chuck Norris superpowers?

Posted by: Ain't that a wonderment at April 03, 2026 01:21 PM (2Ez/1)

397 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (NcvvS)

398 I like them sliced diagonally.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (52ERr)

399 @371

>>I fail to see the value to a stance that says American boots must die on the ground as opposed to targeting the evil faction that's been murdering it's citizens for 40+ years and blowing them to smithereens.

Listen, this a mess of Trumps making, of course we can continue bombing the crap out of them but is that going to resolve the situation in the near term?

No, it will not.

We cannot disengage at this point, the regime has to fall or America simply cut's bait and runs and we have to deal with the disgrace and fall out of another misadventure in the middle east.

Or alternatively...

Never get involved in a land ware in Asia OR The Middle East.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (XV/Pl)

400 That is one of the stated complaints about the A-10, they are garage queens that require constant maintenance and are a pain to keep in the air.

The A-10s are all around 50 years old, and metal fatigue is a thing. There was a great X thread last weekend mulling the possibility of an A-10X or A-11 (naming is flexible, obviously) that was a new plane with upgrades made possible by 50 years of new technology. But also the same philosophy of being a BRRRRRT delivery system with an armored tub to protect the pilot and redundant systems.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (2ocoG)

401 Tucker Carlson confused, smelled a fart look*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:16 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & California's next Governor) at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (0sNs1)

There was a humorous bit in Friends where Joey taught some acting students about “smell the fart acting”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

402 Nude Hobbits and shit

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

403 391 I think they mean hundreds of groups, not hundreds of individuals
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM (ZxPkt)


Saw a picture of one of the convoys and it was very long.. If there were 2 per truck I'd say 1000 just in that group

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (FtULh)

404 ok, so someone tell sid it's his turn to be a putzhead

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (CWTWj)

405 May I just take this moment, @ace, to point out that we still witness miracles? You told me to calm down and be quiet (paraphrasing) and I did. I think we need an Amen. 😂
Posted by: Piper at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM


You realize this elevated Ace to Chuck Norris status, as the only two men to tell a woman to calm down, with successful results?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (0sNs1)

406 I miss Pete!

Posted by: Denny Crane - My Sense Of Humor Has No Boundaries. at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (dmDsy)

407 > 383 I say we burn the Geneva Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons at this point.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (abIsI)

I've long been of the opinion that we should only grant rights under the Geneva Conventions to opponents who grant the same rights to our soldiers. See the optimal strategy for the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

Given that the last enemy we had that made even a token effort to abide by the Geneva Conventions was Nazi Motherfucking Germany...that says rather a lot about the caliber of foe we've been facing since then, dunnit?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (IG3/x)

408
Masterbaitin Pete, we hardly knew ye.

A poll of college historians will someday declare him as the best poster ever.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (Y8DZL)

409 This. It's time to reset the region after the last 50-60 years of fiddling. Destroy them, and deal with whats left. Abraham Accord the heck out the region and clean slate it.

It would be the height of foolishness to go after the average Iranian man in the street now, when he's turned definitively against the mullahs and the IRGC. As gratifying as it might be, we need to show the average Persian that we're not the monsters they've been told we are all their lives. It will make our job much, much easier.

Keep going after the mullahs and Basiji, and leave Joe Falafel alone if possible.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

410 There was a humorous bit in Friends where Joey taught some acting students about “smell the fart acting”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (xT8gx)

That's what I was going for, and it landed about as well as all my comments.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (dK+Kv)

411 Nope. I'm over 29, so I know that Dubya's retarded attempt to pass blanket amnesty in 2006 and the global financial meltdown instigated by Soros in 2008 were the causes. And even then John McCain still was favored to win until he suspended his campaign because Palin was too popular with voters.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Yep. We forget that McVain tanked his own campaign like the shitbird that he was. And Bush played pussy with the housing crisis despite knowing what Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were doing. He had unified control of government at that point and still let Barney Frank call the shots.

GWB gave us Obama by his feckless and half assed nation building, housing collapse, kissing Chicom ass letting their products and peoples into the US, open borders, and his lame ass Islam is a religion of peace shit. One of the worst GOP presidents in years. Bush I was no prize either.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

412 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 01:22 PM (XV/Pl

You are usually right Bender. I am giving it until June 1 before I judge anything. I am still hoping it will be clearer before then. I'm not in charge, I make no decisions, I have that luxury.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (mWRBW)

413 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (dK+Kv)

I get practically all your comments, to which I can think of no greater indictment.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (mWRBW)

414 There are a shocking number of people in the media sphere that stauchly refuse to learn the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. Tucker is a midwit so that tracks. Matt Walsh is a fucking doofus that I have never understood why anyone pays attention to him.
Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)


I think they are looking at the world from the GWOT view and won't be budged from their fears. I think they are wrong, I think their position on these areas are regrettable, but they echo my fears during the GWOT while we were in in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Beating the Terrorists was a good idea, and it would have been nice if we had actually decided to do it.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

415 182 BREAKING: Hegseth allows military to carry personal firearms on all bases.

It's about time.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 03, 2026 12:50 PM (abIsI)

I hope that can extend to military retirees. The system where each base commander set the policy made the notion of being firearms into base a bloody nightmare.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (E6xSb)

416 Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (mWRBW)

Amen

Thank you. Ace. I try to pray for you and this site everyday because you are such a worthwhile voice and I worry when you are not feeling well. Have a Happy Easter. I'm planning on winning the lottery soon so I will give you soon money when I do. 😉It's a challenge right now because I am a penurious part time pastor and we just had to lease a new car for our family

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (PFs9e)

417 408
Masterbaitin Pete, we hardly knew ye.

A poll of college historians will someday declare him as the best poster ever.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 01:23 PM (Y8DZL)

How can he be gone? He was a 23 YEAR resident of this site!!!

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:26 PM (E6xSb)

418 John McCain still was favored to win until he suspended his campaign because Palin was too popular with voters.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 01:18 PM (2ocoG)
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He suspended his campaign because he was a dumb, peckerheaded asshole and a card-carrying member of the failure caucus.

I hope he's enjoying his eternal damnation.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:27 PM (oqH4h)

419 353 Might be time for a nice, feel-Good Friday post. You know, something shitting on Hollywood, dunking on some leftwing homosexual getting his nuts fried off when he tries to f*** the toaster, bears being out of control, or hot girls with great racks.


Ah, the classics.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t)

and the wonders of Buc-ees.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:28 PM (QGaXH)

420
I'm tired of you faggots threatening to defect to the left to blackmail us into joining you. Fuck you. You're all Nick Fuentes cunts anyway who either vote for Democrats or third party extremists or can't vote because you have records or don't want the government to know where you live.

___________________

I'm a boring ass white dude who votes Republican in every election. If the electorate was composed of "readers of this website" we wouldn't even be having this conversation. But that's not reality. Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Calling me names doesn't change political reality. Republicans get absolutely shellacked in swing districts every time the country is at war. That's how we got Obama and his "fundamental transformation", because the Iraq War bogged down, leading to the 2006 midterms, and then he got into office and had the votes to pass his agenda into law.



Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)

421 Today's Factoid: Auto insurance on a military installations used by the troops (most use USAA) is cheaper than the surrounding communities. Why? Because it is safer.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 12:58 PM (2WIwB)

Tell me about it. Do not speed on a military installation. Ever.

I once got ticketed for no registration…poor Airman didn’t think to look at the windshield. Ticket dismissed. Then another time I got stopped for no registration. Damn rental car company allowed the registration to lapse. No ticket then either. But bases are very well patrolled.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:30 PM (E6xSb)

422 Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)
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That's not reality, that's propaganda. Obama bombed more countries than any president since WWII, it's just that the faggot media spent eight solid years running cover for that bumbling moron, and people eat it up because they're stupid.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 01:32 PM (oqH4h)

423 I'm a boring ass white dude who votes Republican in every election. If the electorate was composed of "readers of this website" we wouldn't even be having this conversation. But that's not reality. Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Calling me names doesn't change political reality. Republicans get absolutely shellacked in swing districts every time the country is at war. That's how we got Obama and his "fundamental transformation", because the Iraq War bogged down, leading to the 2006 midterms, and then he got into office and had the votes to pass his agenda into law.



Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)

You have a lot of explaining to do here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 01:32 PM (E6xSb)

424 The A-10s are all around 50 years old, and metal fatigue is a thing.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Heh. Now do C5A's, our tanker fleet, and B-52's. And our archaic heavy lift copters in the USAF and Navy.

B-2's are a perfect example of a plane that needs expensive care about like the Space Shuttle when launched on missions.

We have a sustained procurement problem in the services that whichever mafia has the biggest share of the general officers dictates what is to be bought which then fits the rest of our strategy around whatever they think is important.

And the fact for the Air Force is that drones and perhaps hypersonic and/or surface to surface missiles are going to be the future rather than the rather expensive and increasingly unnecessary pilots in harms way. The Navy with carrier groups and the Army with tanks are also going to need to revise plans in an era of cheap missiles and drones.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 01:33 PM (E4rtv)

425 Reality is that the single most popular part of the Democratic platform is peace. It gets them elected, and then once elected they advance their communist agenda.

Posted by: Vick King at April 03, 2026 01:29 PM (DMmvN)

No.

The single most popular part of the Democratic platform is abortion. Then it's punishing those who have jobs.

That's it. Killing babies and class envy. Peace doesn't permit the revolution. They actively oppose peace. They want us dead.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 01:34 PM (FmapG)

426 424 Notice what comments get you banned around here:

Not banned: "We should nuke Iran. Turn it to glass. They need to be taught a lesson, every last baby."

Banned: "Hey maybe Trump is mashing a mistake.'

You're better than this, ace.
---

He's gone full Zionist, for whatever reason. I'm surprised he made it through posting this story without mentioning Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: UA113 at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (cz34i)

427 "....bad-tempered unemployed trolls."

Posted by: ace at April 03, 2026 01:06 PM (1wjle)

I resemble that remark.......LOL!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 03, 2026 01:20 PM


I'm not unemployed, I'm selfemployed.

*makes vertical hand movement that makes all the difference

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:44 PM (4NO2D)

428 I just wish the trolls would wait for things to work out to their end before they start their toldyasos. I've been mau-maued so much better than this.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 01:47 PM (4NO2D)

429 Jockeys always are wanting new fighter aircraft or to a lesser extent bombers out there as a budget issue rather than the pedestrian airlift aircraft, tankers, our AF nuclear land missiles, and CAS support.

Posted by: whig a
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Pierre Sprey is that you????

Posted by: If you know you know at April 03, 2026 01:50 PM (Ha2dl)

430 381 Ace I want to genuinely wish you a Happy Easter and hope it's a truly Good day for you. I personally feel the weight of today differently every year, as I change and my understanding of Jesus and maybe even God changes.

Today has been particularly heavy in it. I appreciate you giving us this little timeless (and I do mean timeless) safe haven of internet where the values of your readers and commenters are generally respected and not insulted like 99.99% of the "conservative" sites end up doing. The site has had its moments but your humor and overall sense of fairness has been the engine that drives it and keeps it going despite politics generally being a very sucky thing to talk about. I really thank God we still have this fun little place.
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 01:19 PM (mWRBW)

100% agree!

Posted by: Joemarine at April 03, 2026 01:51 PM (y171U)

431 We've obliterated the top 3+ tiers of their government.
The regime is changed they just don't know it yet.

Posted by: DaveA at April 03, 2026 02:00 PM (FhXTo)

432 How would you feel, say, someone posted with the handle "CharlieBrown'sDildo?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

I may be showing my age here, but I seem to recall his original handle as CharlieBrown's NJ Dildo. Or am I going senile?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 03, 2026 02:02 PM (5xuJ/)

433 Prayers, if true, the other pilot will be found by Special Forces uninjured.

Prayers for the pilot and Special Forces and all US Military.

May God bless you all this Good Friday, Ace, Morons and 'ettes. Thanks again for your prayers yesterday.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 03, 2026 02:06 PM (WONhk)

434 You're just gonna have to deal with Pete's VPN at

==
I dont want yoy to feel bad about yourself. The point is people disagree with you and they arent evil. You probably think dropping the bombs on Japan was the wrong thing to do. Lots of people do. Lots dont. Good reasons on both sides.

You shouldnt be so histrionic. Try yoga or something. Regular exercise. Turn off the tv and go for a walk. It will help. I know its scary and there are a bunch of uncontrollables. Thats how these things work.

Posted by: If you know you know at April 03, 2026 02:10 PM (Ha2dl)

435 434
You shouldnt be so histrionic. Try yoga or something. Regular exercise. Turn off the tv and go for a walk. It will help. I know its scary and there are a bunch of uncontrollables. Thats how these things work.
Posted by: If you know you know
_____

Beyond silly. I'm completely measured and reasonable.

In response to a loss of one airplane, people here want to start committing war crimes. When I point that out, I get called a "rancid little cunt."

Yeah, but I'm bringing the histrionics. Lol.

Posted by: You're just gonna have to deal with Pete's VPN at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM (pQ/3Y)

436 I get called a "rancid little cunt."


It's pointed out that you are a rancid little cunt.

*makes vertical hand motion.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 02:22 PM (4NO2D)

437 436 I get called a "rancid little cunt."


It's pointed out that you are a rancid little cunt.

*makes vertical hand motion.
Posted by: toby928(c)
_____

If people who think we shouldn't kill millions of Iranian civilians just because we lost one airplane are rancid little cunts, what are the people who want to kill those civilians?

Posted by: You're just gonna have to deal with Pete's VPN at April 03, 2026 02:37 PM (pQ/3Y)

438 Heh. Now do C5A's, our tanker fleet, and B-52's. And our archaic heavy lift copters in the USAF and Navy.

C-5As no longer exist. We now have the C-5M, the Super Galaxy.

Also, no C-5s have the old school GE TF39 turbofan engines.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:33 PM (E6xSb)

439 You're just gonna have to deal with Pete's VPN at April 03, 2026 02:17 PM

To you, having a military is a war crime.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 03:35 PM (E6xSb)

440 I think there were 75 lost allied aircraft during the 1st Gulf War and that was against an adversary that was technologically nowhere as near as (supposedly) advanced as Iran.
Iran had been rushed the latest Chinese SAMs which were supposed to be able to shoot down the F-35 and east for the Iranians to transition to. So much for that.

Hopefully everyone gets back safe.

Posted by: stv at April 03, 2026 06:15 PM (XMeSM)

THE MORNING RANT: My Gripe Against Hollywood – the Unintelligible, Artistic Mumble

Hollywood is not my normal beat. I once wrote a piece about David Zaslav’s looting of Warner Bros Discovery after he ran the company into the ground while extracting generational wealth for himself. But in general, I am happy to keep up with the business of Hollywood by following Christian Toto (Hollywood in Toto), George MF Washington’s Hollywood-insider substack (The Continental Congress) and by reading Ace’s accounts of Disney’s self-immolation.

So, with Ace and them fighting the political fight involving Hollywood, I’d like to weigh in on another subject related to the industry - I can’t understand half the dialogue in the shows I stream.

Dear Hollywood: Enough with the artistic mumble.

Watching streaming series is a relatively new thing for my wife and me. Both of us fell out of the habit of watching TV series several decades ago, and it was only in the past five years or so that we’ve picked up the habit again here in the streaming era. On weekend nights when we’re not out, we enjoy watching a couple episodes of whatever show we’re following, but I sometimes feel like giving up on it since half of the dialogue nowadays is barely intelligible.

The problem is not a hearing issue. At my office, I’m sometimes involved in whispered conversations about semi-confidential matters. There are also women who talk in vocal fry. In office meeting there is overlapping chatter. In all these circumstances, everyone is still understandable. The problem is not my ears.

I’m not sure if Hollywood is full of actors who no longer know how to articulate, or if it’s sound engineers who make the actors’ speech inaudible, or some combination of the two.

The speaking affectation in modern shows seems to be equal parts mumble, whisper, and vocal fry. I cannot turn my TV up loud enough for some conversations to be greater than a whisper, or understandable. I might think it was my TV, but we replaced a TV recently, and nothing changed. Even more telling, the speech in news and sports broadcasts is still loud, crisp, and easily understood, as are old sitcoms and TV series.

At times I wonder if there is a “mumble filter” through which Hollywood sound engineers are now subjecting audio. My wife and I were very late to the series “Justified.” We watched the original series just about the time the 2023 reboot, “City Primeval,” came along. We never had any problem understanding what was being said in the original Justified, but the reboot was almost completely unintelligible. Almost all speaking was a barely audible mumble, and even Timothy Oliphant now sounded like he was whispering through a mouth full of marbles, unlike in the original series. Was a conscious decision made to have spoken words be mostly inaudible?

People do not talk like this in real life. This Hollywood speaking affectation is just as fake as the Mid-Atlantic accent of Hollywood’s golden era – but at least we could understand what was being said in those old movies.

It’s also noteworthy that despite the prevalence of the “artistic mumble,” there are still actors who will not be mumbled. Billy Bob Thornton speaks slowly and clearly, and I never have any trouble understanding him. Jamie Lee Curtis has been in several shows we’ve watched recently. She still projects her voice and speaks with authority. There is far more art in their performances than from those actors who are mumbling lines without breathing or moving their lips.

Please, Hollywood, I’m willing to consume your product. Can you have your actors and sound engineers retire the artistic mumble before I give up on Hollywood again?

*****

Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Something sweet and heartwarming happened on Twitter/X this past weekend – a mutual-admiration love affair broke out between conservative Americans who respect Japan and its culture, and conservative Japanese who admire our culture, all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration.

There was a lot of good-natured ribbing and affectionate cultural appropriation flying around between Japan and the U.S., including Japanese cowgirls, celebrations of beef and sushi, and some cross-pollinated music.

In that spirit, here is a Japanese band performing the bluegrass classic “Fox on the Run.”

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Blessed Good Friday, Buck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

3 OK

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:00 AM (Suwql)

4 Hi.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 11:01 AM (qFwJc)

5 I have hearing loss. I must have closed captioning. Even with hearing aids, the mumble is just horrible.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 11:01 AM (qFwJc)

6 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:02 AM (AkEZC)

7 >>The speaking affectation in modern shows seems to be equal parts mumble, whisper, and vocal fry.


I use subtitles.

Started it when I was streaming "Vikings" and have never stopped. It is your friend!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:02 AM (Suwql)

8 The speaking affectation in modern shows seems to be equal parts mumble, whisper, and vocal fry. I cannot turn my TV up loud enough for some conversations to be greater than a whisper, or understandable. I might think it was my TV, but we replaced a TV recently, and nothing changed.


Until the music plays.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

9 Or there's gunfire or an explosion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:02 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Was a conscious decision made to have spoken words be mostly inaudible?


They're all just huge Shaquille O'Neal fans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

11 Hollywood probably needs to be destroyed. If left around, it will inevitably affect the industries of countries like South Korea and Japan who do not yet produce woke garbage. Its magnetic pull even as it bleeds cash is baffling, but real. Let its ruins in Los Angeles serve as a warning to future generations.

Posted by: the lower depths at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (PrKv7)

12 The point of modern Hollywood is not so that you can hear the actors.

It's so that you can listen to ***THE MESSAGE*** (cue Critical Drinker's voice).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (ESVrU)

13 I concur with your comments about dialogue on TV shows.
I find myself using the Closed Caption feature almost full time now.
Netflix shows are particularly effected by this issue. Along with all the other Woke BS they regularly inject into every show.
If it weren't for the non-Netflix movies I can access, I'd probably cancel.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (MNCvZ)

14 Between needing captions for basic conversations and watching shows that apparently failed to pay the light bill so they had to be shot in the dark, modern entertainment lost its value a while back.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (NR6c1)

15 "I cannot turn my TV up loud enough for some conversations to be greater than a whisper, or understandable. "


It ain't just the TV, I have that same issues with talk radio when they have people phone in. And it just isn't me, my wife can't understand what they are saying either and she isn't deaf like I am.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (0N4FZ)

16 Japanese band performing ...“Fox on the Run.”

Sweet!

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (XuXeR)

17 When I watch shows on streaming (mainly Amazon Prime Video) I always enable close captioning… I thought my hearing was getting bad and the CC is awesome. But maybe my hearing is okay… in any case CC is a huge positive

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:05 AM (X5Baq)

18 >>We never had any problem understanding what was being said in the original Justified,


Well, look at the actors - that show was so well cast!
Timothy Oliphant (swoon), Walton Goggins, Nick Searcy, Margot Martindale, Neil McDonough and more!

They know how to ACT!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:05 AM (Suwql)

19 Sinatra referred to Brando as “Mumbles” when they were making “Guys and Dolls.”

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

20 Buck, you are not alone in finding dialogue in modern shows and movies to be nearly unintelligible. When I was studying drama lo these many years ago, we were always exhorted to "Enunciate!" Yes, Marlon Brando and James Dean had infected young actors with the mumbling routine, but it had not yet taken hold completely.

Recently Heroes & Icons, the TV channel running all the Trek series, lost its closed-captioning. I was able to understand all the lines in TOS (to be fair, I know many of them by heart), 99% of those in TNG, and 90% of those in DS9. When Linda brings a modern movie from the library for us to watch, I wince -- mumbling dialogue and murky lighting everywhere. I suspect they are trying in part to cover poor special effects and acting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:05 AM (wzUl9)

21 The "kid punks CNN" from the sidebar is sad and hysterical at the same time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

22 >>>conservative Americans who respect Japan and its culture, and conservative Japanese who admire our culture, all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration

That last part ("all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration") I didn't gather from the 𝕏 fun this last weekend.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (fNISR)

23 Day 2 of being smokeless and I still haven't murdered anyone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

24 Between needing captions for basic conversations and watching shows that apparently failed to pay the light bill so they had to be shot in the dark, modern entertainment lost its value a while back.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026


***
Great way to put it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (wzUl9)

25
It's so that you can listen to ***THE MESSAGE*** (cue Critical Drinker's voice).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 11:04 AM (ESVrU)



*screen shakes uncontrollably*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)

26 I once escorted our church's youth group on a Mission trip to West Tennessee. We slept with about a thousand others in the local high school. There was one group of Japanese students there for a factfinding mission about how these things were done.

One night was talent night. There were many kids who sang and played guitars. The highlight of the evening, though, was when some of the Japanese kids came out in large inflatable sumo outfits (basically beach balls worn around the body) and spent their time running into and bouncing off of each other. They brought the house down.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

27 And a few of us don't hear so well. Pretty much full time captions.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (e1HT8)

28 I have hearing loss. I must have closed captioning. Even with hearing aids, the mumble is just horrible.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 11:01 AM (qFwJc)
---
I'm close captioning a video right now of an Asian professor describing paleomagnetism. It's interesting what the auto-captioning is coming up with to interpret her accent.

"Magnetic inclination" comes out as, "My romantic inclination."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (ESVrU)

29 >>People do not talk like this in real life. This Hollywood speaking affectation is just as fake as the Mid-Atlantic accent of Hollywood’s golden era


I blame Aaron Sorkin!
OK, not really, but his dialog is always particularly affected.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (Suwql)

30 Another positive about CC… I like to watch British shows (like old Poirot’s) and the accents make it hard to understand what’s being said sometimes… the CC solves that problem as well…. Heck I now know what some of those French phrases are that the little Belgian speaks so quickly!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (X5Baq)

31 I've seen multiple links to this "friendly battle between the US and Japan," yet I've never seen anyone link the US side of the equation........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

32 My Gripe Against Hollywood – the Unintelligible, Artistic Mumble

Man, I hate that shit. -- Billie Eilish

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

33 Day 2 of being smokeless and I still haven't murdered anyone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

Yet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:08 AM (FmapG)

34 Please, Hollywood, I’m willing to consume your product. Can you have your actors and sound engineers retire the artistic mumble before I give up on Hollywood again?


*****



They've shit on and insulted me enough to NOT have this attitude.

F*ck hollywood. Die a death of 10,000 papercuts. I care not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

35
Go back 60 years and try to understand what Brian Kieth was saying in "Family Affair".

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (Y8DZL)

36 Ha! Thanks Buck for pointing this out.

They think mumbling is acting. Also eye-blinking.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (RIvkX)

37 A lot of the actors in classic Hollywood were also stage actors, so they knew how to enunciate and project.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (77rzZ)

38 Another positive about CC… I like to watch British shows (like old Poirot’s) and the accents make it hard to understand what’s being said sometimes… the CC solves that problem as well….

Peaky Blinders was the worst. The dialogue was simply unintelligible without subtitles.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

39 We slept with about a thousand others in the local high school.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (Riz8t)

SWEET!

- J. Epstein

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (FmapG)

40 They think mumbling is acting. Also eye-blinking.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (RIvkX)



The more you mumble, the more SERIOUS you are, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

41 Gavin Newsom remembers the good old days.

https://is.gd/xS0d9e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7)

42 I too have issues with hearing dialog on TV. It's a pain to keep changing the volume and my wife just gets annoyed with me.

I think it has something to do with the soundtrack and compression. Or so some say.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:10 AM (AkEZC)

43 Watch Hammer films instead.

They speak clearly there!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:11 AM (hAotW)

44 Gavin Newsom remembers the good old days.

https://is.gd/xS0d9e
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 11:10 AM (ndZc7)



Someone posted a Xcrement feed where they showed how there were 2 Bidens. That was the 2nd Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)

45 FWIW, it's smartphones. When everything is funneled thru a 16th of an inch or smaller speaker...
Compressed dynamic range is all you'll get

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 11:11 AM (XuXeR)

46 >>A lot of the actors in classic Hollywood were also stage actors, so they knew how to enunciate and project.


THIS.
More recently, you have actors who have done voice work on animated movies and video games.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:11 AM (Suwql)

47 It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at April 03, 2026 11:11 AM (qjK5t)

48 https://is.gd/xS0d9e

Ha! He got the call he better fvcking post Biden after posting Obama earlier.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 11:12 AM (RIvkX)

49 Amusing side note for the American/Japanese culture exchange.

One of the problems from the Japanese was that Americans have no problem going to pirate sites for anime. Then Elon happened and the Japanese got to see just how butchered various shows were in order to appeal to the "Modern Audience."

This marked a rare moment where they agreed about going to a pirate site to watch something.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 11:12 AM (NR6c1)

50 Mr. Inbetween:

"I'm thinking of working toward becoming a bigtime director."

"Like, hollywood?"

"Yeah, mate."

"You'd fit right in. You're a freak."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

51 >>>>>conservative Americans who respect Japan and its culture, and conservative Japanese who admire our culture, all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration

>>That last part ("all of whom seek to preserve their own cultures against hostile immigration") I didn't gather from the 𝕏 fun this last weekend.


Yes. From what I've seen it's been a mutual admiration thing.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:13 AM (Suwql)

52 I've read that the sound engineers don't get the budgets that they want; that microphone placement is becoming a lost art; that the sound mixing is done for theaters, and not for home viewing; that the wide viewing environment variances of increasingly-popular home viewing are nearly impossible to mix for. And more. So it seems that there is a technical basis behind the dialogue difficulties.

None of which address the fact that ads are all clearly (and loudly) comprehensible. Nope, the biggest problem is this fascination among the studios for breathy mumbling as their single sop to passion.

As always, these are not bright people.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 03, 2026 11:14 AM (bufu1)

53 "People do not talk like this in real life."

Gonna have to call bullshit on that statement, Buck.

'Pardon?'
'Say again?'
'What was that?'
'If you want to be heard, you need to SPEAK UP.'
'FFS, volume. Enunciate. From the diaphram, woman!'

Things that are repeatedly said by me in a household with a wife who speaks at a lower volume.

a) My ears are not what they once were.
b) My youngest daughter says exactly the same things to my wife, so it's not just my ears!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (O7YUW)

54 The commercials are always loud and clear

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (qjK5t)

55 Vocals on TV and movies isn't an acting problem so much as it is a microphone problem. Granted, some of it is that actors never learned how to "speak to the last row" in a theater, but it's a budget issue now.

Used to be that the production company would hire a bunch of crew to hold boom mics just out of frame to capture vocals. That is vastly more expensive than pinning a hidden lavalier mic inside someone's shirt, but the audio capture also sucks orders of magnitude harder.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (oqH4h)

56 In that spirit, here is a Japanese band performing the bluegrass classic “Fox on the Run.”

Love the 'choreography' to get to the single mic, and, of course, the banjo girl going on tiptoes to get her voice heard.

Posted by: t-bird at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (x/Rva)

57
"Justified" also cast Patton Oswalt, a shark jumping event.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (Y8DZL)

58 57
"Justified" also cast Patton Oswalt, a shark jumping event.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (Y8DZL)



Oops.

Owt......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

59 CSAR operations underway in Iran as we try to recover the crew from a downed F-15.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:16 AM (FmapG)

60 CSAR operations underway in Iran as we try to recover the crew from a downed F-15.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:16 AM (FmapG)



I thought someone already posted last thread they had the pilots back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

61 Buck you need to have a Movie Video series

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Ia/+0)

62 I run subtitles on every show that I stream.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (rJ48h)

63 57
"Justified" also cast Patton Oswalt, a shark jumping event.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:15 AM (Y8DZL)


Oops.

Owt......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

I didn’t even like Oswalt in King of Queens, a show I really like… but every scene he appeared in was painful to watch (unless he was getting pantsed by Doug)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (aSzdc)

64 Buck you need to have a Movie Video series
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Ia/+0)



Someone should really do a YT video series where they talk in layman's terms about movies, their producers and what makes them good or bad.

I think the internet is starving for something like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

65 @MichelleMaxwell
·
1h
💥 TWO SOMALI-AMERICAN JUDGES ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS DAWN RAID: 3.25 TONS OF COCAINE & $1.5 BILLION JUDICIAL FRAUD NETWORK EXPOSED
At 4:18 a.m., over 200 federal agents stormed 17 locations across Minneapolis and St. Paul, shattering the sanctity of the justice system.
The targets: sitting federal judges Amina Hassan and Khaled Osman — a married couple who allegedly used their courtrooms to shield the Sinaloa and CJNG cartels.

-----

Hmmm...FBI arresting judges?

Can't have happened. Trump turned his attention to Iran which means that all domestic efforts at his agenda stopped.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (hAotW)

66 I can hear the women just fine on TV. It's the men I can't. It's like they're talking through their teeth. The women screech.

I get a lot of that IRL.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (AkEZC)

67 *I meant to say 'directors.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

68 64 Someone should really do a YT video series where they talk in layman's terms about movies, their producers and what makes them good or bad.

I think the internet is starving for something like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

======

Only the land of assholes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (hAotW)

69 thought someone already posted last thread they had the pilots back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I haven't see anything that says that. We just confirmed the loss within the past hour or so.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (FmapG)

70 how to enunciate and project.

Ned Sparks.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (Kt19C)

71 Hmmm...FBI arresting judges?

Can't have happened. Trump turned his attention to Iran which means that all domestic efforts at his agenda stopped.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM (hAotW)



Because everyone knows he can't multitask.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (Zz0t1)

72 My hearing is very good. On shows I know, I'm good with volume at 7/100. For movies, 9 or 10.

But yeah, closed captioning is the best. It started with the asian horror movies and just carried over. Especially horror movies where there's constant whispering. And the closed captions often tell you about sounds way in the background.

My pet peeve, texting in movies and tv shows. I stop the video to catch the entire 'coversation.' Just put freaking huge subtitles on the bottom of the screen. Worst thing ever for movies.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Sco7b)

73
I haven't see anything that says that. We just confirmed the loss within the past hour or so.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (FmapG)



F*cking lying internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Young ladies, usually under 25, that have to talk so fast you wonder if they're going to auctioneer school. At least the customer service WOGS keep it slow.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (gm9Sb)

75 Watch Hammer films instead.

They speak clearly there!


Trust me. I know what I'm doing.

Posted by: Hammer at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (vTZFs)

76 How does one fail to mention Natalie Zea when listing cast members of Justified?

Smoke show..

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Y1sOo)

77 One report that the Pilot and Weapons Officer ejected from their F-15E, and have already been safely extracted from Iranian territory.

Fast footwork by the SAR community and their supporting air components. A plane crew in Iranian hands - ** Shudder**

We have A-10s, C-130s and more in the SAR effort.
C-130s over Iran, and within range of ground (rifle) fire.
CENTCOM is silent, so far. So is Iran.

Iranians saying the hunt is on, with a $30,000 reward. Iranians misidentified the plane as F-35.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (u82oZ)

78 > thought someone already posted last thread they had the pilots back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)

I haven't see anything that says that. We just confirmed the loss within the past hour or so.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:19 AM (FmapG)
------------
Haven't seen any confirmation. Only that SAR is ongoing.

Sources?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (AkEZC)

79 F*cking lying internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)

Pavehawks and C-130Js are still actively circling and fueling. We're not acting like we've recovered them yet.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (FmapG)

80 There’s a large tech issue behind the mumbling—sound mixing. The sound is mixed as it is because it has to find a middle ground between potentially playing in a big theatre setting, TVs at home with a large array of capabilities in the sound department these days, and on tinny phone speakers for people who stream there. The issue’s likely not going away anytime soon. Help us, close captioning, you’re our only hope.

Posted by: Susan at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (2s+J8)

81 Also eye-blinking.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

No one could blink like Bob Newhart. He used it to great comic effect.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (77rzZ)

82 1h
💥 TWO SOMALI-AMERICAN JUDGES ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS DAWN RAID: 3.25 TONS OF COCAINE & $1.5 BILLION JUDICIAL FRAUD NETWORK EXPOSED
At 4:18 a.m., over 200 federal agents stormed 17 locations across Minneapolis and St. Paul, shattering the sanctity of the justice system.


Right. The federal agents shattered the sanctity of the justice system. Not the corrupt judges.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

83 Subtitles in English for an English language movie is aggravating. Mumble, mumble, what? Rewind. Are your sound engineers retarded?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (UqSya)

84 82 Right. The federal agents shattered the sanctity of the justice system. Not the corrupt judges.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

======

Arresting the criminal federal judges is one way to open up seats on the bench.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (hAotW)

85 Ned Sparks.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

86 F-15E is from the 49th Fighter Squadron, part of the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, nicknamed Panthers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (u82oZ)

87 If its a movie thread
TJM suggest 2 WWII movies from foreign makers
1944 is a Estonian movie
Warsaw 44 is a Polish movie

Thought both were extremely well done

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)

88 Iranians saying the hunt is on, with a $30,000 reward. Iranians misidentified the plane as F-35.

You know they so badly wanted to call it a B-21.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (Riz8t)

89 Haven't seen any confirmation. Only that SAR is ongoing.

Sources?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:21 AM (AkEZC)

CENTCOM confirmed around 1100.

https://www.cbsnews.com/ news/american-fighter-jet-f15e-downed-over-iran/

Contemporary video out of Iran shows the CSAR guys still orbiting, and photos show at least one seat with deployed chutes on the ground. (this is what I did when I was active).

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:24 AM (FmapG)

90 I’m not sure if Hollywood is full of actors who no longer know how to articulate, or if it’s sound engineers who make the actors’ speech inaudible, or some combination of the two.

This started becoming an issue when sound went from analog to digital, and production teams started not caring about audio levels or sound mixing. It's why you can watch a movie shot in the 70s or 80s on TV without having to adjust your volume, but more modern movies blast the sound effects and musical score through your TV when set at low volume but require you turn your volume up another 10-15 notches to hear what people are saying.

Posted by: It's laziness and computer slop at April 03, 2026 11:24 AM (TbWk/)

91 76 How does one fail to mention Natalie Zea when listing cast members of Justified?

Smoke show..
Posted by: one hour sober

CRISTINETH!!

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:25 AM (Y8DZL)

92 *BLAAAAAAT*

Posted by: Christopher Nolan at April 03, 2026 11:25 AM (gKWVE)

93 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

This is only reported recently. I am certain we knew right away. Takes time to get C-130s to the location.

One empty ejection seat was found by the Iranians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:26 AM (u82oZ)

94 Found the problem:

sitting federal judges Amina Hassan and Khaled Osman

Posted by: mr tmz at April 03, 2026 11:26 AM (rJ48h)

95 "TWO SOMALI-AMERICAN JUDGES ARRESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS DAWN RAID"

Somali American? Which is it? Are they not African American?

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (/2tJz)

96 How does one fail to mention Natalie Zea when listing cast members of Justified?


She reminds me of Blake Lively.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (Riz8t)

97 When my son was younger, he'd mumble. When he'd say something, and I'd complain about his mumbling, he'd reply, "I didn't mumble. You're just deaf."

To which I'd reply, "Yes, I'm deaf. BUT YOU STILL MUMBLE!"

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

98 I have no f'n clue what they are saying on Marshalls until I turn the volume to 11.
So we watch about 90% of shows with CC on.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (/+uur)

99 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

This is only reported recently. I am certain we knew right away. Takes time to get C-130s to the location.

One empty ejection seat was found by the Iranians.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:26 AM (u82oZ)

My workplace has become exceptionally busy, and that's all I'll say about it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (FmapG)

100 100

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (/+uur)

101 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

SAR teams are awesome. My first ship hosted the F-111 raid on Libya SAR helo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:28 AM (u82oZ)

102 I’ve been ready for Trump to declare victory in Iran and get out. BUT…. If somehow Iran shot down one of our jets and manages to nab a pilot of ours and do ANYTHING at all untoward my attitude will change completely. I’ll be like: You ain’t seen nothing yet you goat fuckers now we’re really gonna bomb you to the Stone Age.. energy infrastructure… everything. Call it righteous retribution

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (aSzdc)

103 r hennigantx

Have you and m been seen in the same room?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (u82oZ)

104 SAR teams are awesome. My first ship hosted the F-111 raid on Libya SAR helo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:28 AM (u82oZ)

I was a Rescue Swimmer/CSAR in the olden times. 60-Ms for SAR, Sierras for gun trucks.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (FmapG)

105 >>>but more modern movies blast the sound effects and musical score through your TV when set at low volume but require you turn your volume up another 10-15 notches to hear what people are saying.

Posted by: It's laziness and computer slop

>Don't forget the advertising. The sound levels could blow your speakers. The industry wonders why the get bad reviews. Luckily, I'm mostly not paying to rent when I'm streaming, and I haven't been to a brick and mortar theater in years.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (UqSya)

106 Welp, I guess we now know that Rahm Emmanuel is running for preezy in '28. He's much smarter than the candidates they've run recently. He understands that the tranny nonsense doesn't play well. Of course, he's a white, male Joo, so that's a problem for the left.

Emanuel: "50% of American kids aren’t reading at grade level. Reading and math scores at a 30-year low. The Democratic Party’s response was bathroom access and trans athletes in women’s sports."

https://is.gd/s8YOIB

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

107 Kiefer Sutherland on '24' was one of worst mumblers.

When we lived in Michigan, our next door neighbors were the parents of Jeff Nordling, who played the FBI agent in '24'.

Jeff and his dad came over to the house one time when Jeff was visiting his parents. He wanted to see our Bullmastiff because he was considering getting one as a family pet. (He wound up getting an English Mastiff, instead). He told me the next season of '24' had just been green-lighted. I told him to tell Kiefer Sutherland to stop mumbling. He just laughed.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 11:30 AM (Y1sOo)

108 106 Emanuel: "50% of American kids aren’t reading at grade level. Reading and math scores at a 30-year low. The Democratic Party’s response was bathroom access and trans athletes in women’s sports."

https://is.gd/s8YOIB

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (Riz8t)

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He's going to take his 10th place finish in South Carolina and catapult to victory!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:30 AM (hAotW)

109 I grew up listening to rock and roll. I got pretty good at deciphering words.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 11:30 AM (viF8m)

110 I had my teeth removed to provide better service to my clientele.

Posted by: Pawl at April 03, 2026 11:31 AM (INYUJ)

111 I also think the Foley artist are trying to be just too artsy.
It seems like they have miked the fan in the computer, the clickity keyboards keying, and thing going ping.
Also have to have the country star on the radio when you get in the truck.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:32 AM (/+uur)

112 The two worst mumblers in Hollywood are Matthew McConaughey and Jeff Bridges. Bridges might be his decrepitude but McConaughey has mumbled since birth.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 11:32 AM (4NO2D)

113 He's going to take his 10th place finish in South Carolina and catapult to victory!

I don't know if he thinks he has a realistic shot, but it's pretty clear that he's trying to bring the Democrats back to their senses.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

114 Rahm Emmanuel ain’t getting anywhere in a presidential run… he’s in the wrong party to be Jewish and has about as much charisma as Michael Bloomberg… a lethal combo in politics. If he’s so smart he must realize this or he has a blind spot

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:32 AM (aSzdc)

115 So Theo Von broke out the bullshit old saw about wars being fought " by the poor" again on Joe Rogan podcast.

Posted by: steevy at April 03, 2026 11:33 AM (YwEeS)

116 33 Day 2 of being smokeless and I still haven't murdered anyone.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (2UnvF)

---'

Huge congratulation! If it will get better. And you know what? not having the urge to grab a smoke every so often will be such relief

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 11:33 AM (tlviZ)

117 113 He's going to take his 10th place finish in South Carolina and catapult to victory!

I don't know if he thinks he has a realistic shot, but it's pretty clear that he's trying to bring the Democrats back to their senses.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

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The people who would have moderated the party have been actively insulted and pushed out over the past 18 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:33 AM (hAotW)

118 IT WILL GET BETTER!

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 11:34 AM (tlviZ)

119
You'd think someone running for the dempreznom would be disqualified for saying anything sane.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:34 AM (Y8DZL)

120 Have you and m been seen in the same room?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:29 AM (u82oZ)

I would not be in a room with someone that actually invites me over.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:34 AM (/+uur)

121 Hollywood used to be in the business of telling stories. Clear communication is required for telling good stories. Nowadays it's all about creating a "vibe".

I've noticed in students who feel they are "good writers" that they do not care at all if they have conveyed their thoughts and ideas to a reader. Instead, their writing goal is to feel like they "expressed themselves."

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at April 03, 2026 11:34 AM (FMtrg)

122 Some of the closed captions leave a bit to be desired as well. I've seen some with "indecipherable" or "unintelligible" in the caption. The other night I pulled up an episode of I Spy in Amazon prime video, and there was the trigger warning of violence etc at the beginning and it also said "foul language." I thought, say what? Sure enough, during the show the captioning misinterpreted something Robert Culp said and plugged in an f-bomb.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (q3u5l)

123 119
You'd think someone running for the dempreznom would be disqualified for saying anything sane.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:34 AM (Y8DZL)

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Rahm is telling the teachers' unions that they suck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (hAotW)

124 Someone should really do a YT video series where they talk in layman's terms about movies, their producers and what makes them good or bad.

I think the internet is starving for something like that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:18 AM


I would like and subscribe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (4NO2D)

125 The first 24 was a interesting concept and followed it for awhile

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (Ia/+0)

126 Have a great day, everyone.

The tax prep nightmare continues.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (u82oZ)

127 124 I would like and subscribe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (4NO2D)

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Yeah, but what about ringing that bell?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (hAotW)

128 I work with a lady who has the trifecta; vocal fry, uptalking, and Valley Girl accent.

She's nice, but I find it grating to the extreme.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (PSEDc)

129 It should be obvious by now but the person who will win the Democrat nomination is whomever the Party's leadership decides they want to win the nomination. They gave up on free and fair elections long ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (viF8m)

130 You'd think someone running for the dempreznom would be disqualified for saying anything sane.

When I first read this, I thought you were talking about some new drug.

Don't take Dempreznom if you're allergic to Dempreznom.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

131 Also see lots of articles a F-15E was shot down over southern Iran

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (Ia/+0)

132 The tax prep nightmare continues.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (u82oZ)

I just sent a check that was about what my first 3 cars cost, combined.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (/+uur)

133
The Chosen.

Posted by: Come And See at April 03, 2026 11:37 AM (2Ez/1)

134 Rahm has realized that there's a lane for "normal" and "competent" democrats to run for prez. He's nothing if not an opportunist.

Gavin is trying to do "normal" but he has no chance of also occupying the "competent" lane.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

135 Somehow the commercials are always at 11 so I can sure as hell hear them. Will wake my up from a midnight nap and get my ass into be.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2026 11:37 AM (xvV+O)

136 I too have started watching a few series on the tube. NCIS Origins, Tracker, and RJ Decker I like but damn it Hollywood, quit shoving the homo bullshit down our throats. When that crap starts, I enjoy the sound of silence and return to my book.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 11:37 AM (2WIwB)

137 > I work with a lady who has the trifecta; vocal fry, uptalking, and Valley Girl accent.
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The broad on "The Five" (FOX News show) Jessica Tarlov. I hear her speak and want to choke the life out of her.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 11:38 AM (AkEZC)

138 134 Gavin is trying to do "normal" but he has no chance of also occupying the "competent" lane.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 11:37 AM (oqH4h)

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This is a gross misread of what Newsom is doing.

He's, at best, trying to be the Democrats' Trump by being vulgar and confrontational.

But, he combines that with being completely brainless and unable to think his way out of a paper bag, so his stated policies change based on the interview. "Oh, yeah, we should protect girls in sports," to "Oh, yeah, trans-girls are the only real girls" in back to back interviews.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:38 AM (hAotW)

139 Rahm the ballerina?

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 11:39 AM (uW6NG)

140 The tax prep nightmare continues.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (u82oZ)

I just sent a check that was about what my first 3 cars cost, combined.

Posted by: r hennigantx
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Just "delay" paying your taxes like traitor Fartswell did, does, and will continue to do.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 03, 2026 11:39 AM (xvV+O)

141 >>>blast the sound effects and musical score through your TV when set at low volume but require you turn your volume up another 10-15 notches to hear what people are saying.

I have a Sony soundbar that has a button on the remote that when selected is supposed to accentuate 'voice' and dull somewhat the other sound inputs. Nice concept, but it's barely noticeable when selected.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 11:39 AM (Y1sOo)

142 and there was the trigger warning of violence etc at the beginning and it also said "foul language."
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 11:35 AM (q3u5l)

I love the trigger warnings for horror movies. Yeah, alcohol use and foul language are the most disturbing things about this movie.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:40 AM (Sco7b)

143 I saw The Five for the first time yesterday and came to the conclusion that all of those people are retarded.

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 11:40 AM (uW6NG)

144 the Unintelligible, Artistic Mumble

The bigger issue is the autistic mumble, as best shown by the fat black they/them hologram SAM on Star Feet Learing Center. Sadly, no focused examples to share on YouTube, and I won't subject anyone to longer samples lol

Posted by: Modern at April 03, 2026 11:40 AM (JCZqz)

145 I work with a lady who has the trifecta; vocal fry, uptalking, and Valley Girl accent.

She's nice, but I find it grating to the extreme.


Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/F2y5q31E1gQ

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

146 Pfizer and BioNTech Forced to Shut Down COVID-19 Booster Shot Trials

The company admitted it was “unable to generate relevant data” because recruitment had effectively hit a brick wall.

Reports indicate that more than 80% of potential recruits didn’t even make it past pre-screening, or simply refused to participate.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:41 AM (/+uur)

147 I'm seeing some positive things about The Hail Mary Project.
Might actually plunk down some money and go see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

148 What is vocal fry ?

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (pDt9x)

149 147 I'm seeing some positive things about The Hail Mary Project.
Might actually plunk down some money and go see it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 11:41 AM (2Ez/1)

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Ace should write something about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (hAotW)

150 Rahm the ballerina?

Posted by: fd


Yup. Sadly, he's still the most normal of all their candidates.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

151 What is vocal fry ?

See #145.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

152 150 Rahm the ballerina?

Posted by: fd

Yup. Sadly, he's still the most normal of all their candidates.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

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And the teachers' unions will make an example of him for his heterodoxy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (hAotW)

153 When I first read this, I thought you were talking about some new drug.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

I think the FDA has a regulation that all new drugs be given a name that sounds like a small village in Italy.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Y8DZL)

154 Isn't Rahm the one who gave us "Never let a crisis go to waste?" If so, it doesn't really matter that he's sorta kinda normal for a dem -- he'll still go full left the second he gets the chance.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 11:44 AM (q3u5l)

155 "Sadly, he's still the most normal of all their candidates.
Posted by: Archimedes "

He's an evil SOB and probably a faggot cocksucker too. I guess that's kind of normal for a Democrat.

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 11:44 AM (uW6NG)

156 As a young man, Demosthenes (384–322 BCE) suffered from a speech impediment — possibly a stutter or difficulty with certain sounds — which made his early speech unclear. To improve his articulation, he developed a rigorous personal regimen. According to Plutarch and other ancient sources, he practiced speaking with stones or pebbles in his mouth.

... like Communism, the good speech is just over the horizon

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 11:44 AM (RHGPo)

157 151 What is vocal fry ?

See #145.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

Ah. Got it thanks. Don’t hear that around here. Ozarks.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 11:45 AM (pDt9x)

158 Rahm's full name is Rahm Israel Emanuel. I'm surprised they haven't physically kicked him out of the Democratic Party.

I don't think you're going to be able to get that big cloud back inside that shiny plutonium sphere, Rahm. The Democratic Party has nuked itself.

WRT closed captioning: I accepted a long time ago that I'm 29 years old and pretty much leave it on all the time now.

I, too, am enjoying the Marshals show, along with several other Taylor Sheridan series. Landman is especially good, IMO.

I also recently started on Yellowstone, but you know what? I may not finish it. If I'd seen it first, I don't know that I've have tried any of his other stuff. All the characters appear to be evil shitheads, but not in a way that I find entertaining (see, for example, "I, Claudius"...shitheads, but entertaining).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 11:45 AM (IG3/x)

159 I use CC all of the time, but I gotta say, my older Samsung TV has great speakers... stereo effects go almost 180 degrees sometimes.

Often I can actually look at the face of the person talking on-screen, and understand them!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 03, 2026 11:46 AM (dmDsy)

160 Isn't Rahm the one who gave us "Never let a crisis go to waste?" If so, it doesn't really matter that he's sorta kinda normal for a dem -- he'll still go full left the second he gets the chance.

Of course, but he's 66, and I think he views this as his last chance to have an impact on the direction of the Democrats.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

161 Along with vocal fry, let us also bash those who do "Upspeak" where every damn sentence has to end in a question mark.

There should be loopholes in the law that cover people who physically correct that problem.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 11:46 AM (NR6c1)

162 Here, for all of you doing taxes. Rick Mercers' 45 second video celebrating Canadian tax time called "Knee in my Package."

https://tinyurl.com/3cufrk82

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:47 AM (Sco7b)

163 I think the problem with unintelligible voices is also due to the mixing of the audio with other sound tracks

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

164 I leave closed captioning on all the time now. The hearing isn't completely shot, but it ain't what it used to be. These days if I start to watch a movie and the screen tells me captioning isn't available, I find something else to watch.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 11:47 AM (q3u5l)

165 According to Plutarch and other ancient sources, he practiced speaking with stones or pebbles in his mouth.
Posted by: SMOD

"With blackest moss the flowerpots were thickly crusted, one and all."

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

166 Glad to know someone else is having trouble with understanding dialogue in movies!
I thought it was just me

Posted by: rick9911 at April 03, 2026 11:48 AM (3seEd)

167 > But, he combines that with being completely brainless and unable to think his way out of a paper bag
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:38 AM (hAotW)

I believe Larry Correia described him as a "ziplock bag of hair gel", or maybe that was Mitt Romney. Two of a kind, there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 11:49 AM (IG3/x)

168 148 What is vocal fry ?
Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 11:42 AM (pDt9x)


"Vocal fry" is a style of cooking where sounds are immersed in a hot liquid and "fried" to seal in the musicality of the sounds. Various oils can be used in this process, such as banana oil, marmot oil, or pipe wrench oil. Other modes of cooking vocals include vocal saute, and vocal sous-vide.

Posted by: ChatGPT at April 03, 2026 11:50 AM (skR0U)

169 Personally, I have the gripe with sound levels on my TV.
The cable networks (including NBC, CBS and ABC) sound about right at 65-80 on my volume control. Meanwhile, YouTube is great at 24. Prime at 34. When I switch between the two, I either can't hear it or it blasts out.

Perhaps, the TV manufacturers should have a master volume level for each input to the TV.

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 11:50 AM (RHGPo)

170 It's airshow season again. I know this because the Blue Angels have been flying over my house three times this week during practice sessions, including at this moment.

I don't mind the noise -- sound of freedom and all that --- but, man, those engines on the D-model F/A-18s rattle the doors and windows something fierce.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

171 145 I work with a lady who has the trifecta; vocal fry, uptalking, and Valley Girl accent.

She's nice, but I find it grating to the extreme.

Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/F2y5q31E1gQ
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2026 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

haha!

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 11:50 AM (fNISR)

172 Another positive about CC… I like to watch British shows (like old Poirot’s) and the accents make it hard to understand what’s being said sometimes… the CC solves that problem as well…. Heck I now know what some of those French phrases are that the little Belgian speaks so quickly!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026


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The new All Creatures Great and Small, with the characters' Yorkshire and Scots accents, is like that; CC is great. Though some shows with foreign terms will display the actual words in the captions, while others simply say "Speaks French."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:51 AM (wzUl9)

173 "The Shield" is back on Prime if you missed it 20 years ago.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 03, 2026 11:51 AM (rJ48h)

174 Great, now I want a Blue Seal cheesecake crepe. (Okinawan company known for their ice cream crepes, started postwar and named for the American concept of "blue ribbon.")

Posted by: pookysgirl is going to have to settle for Culver's at April 03, 2026 11:51 AM (Wt5PA)

175 "Vocal fry" is a style of cooking where sounds are immersed in a hot liquid and "fried" to seal in the musicality of the sounds. Various oils can be used in this process, such as banana oil, marmot oil, or pipe wrench oil. Other modes of cooking vocals include vocal saute, and vocal sous-vide.
Posted by: ChatGPT at April 03, 2026


***
Hey, man, nice marmot oil.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:52 AM (wzUl9)

176 " I once wrote a piece about David Zaslav’s looting of Warner Bros Discovery after he ran the company into the ground while extracting generational wealth for himself."

I think I've tossed in this bit of insider info at some point in the past, but it bears repeating;

A lot of what has happened to the former various bits of Warner Bros can be attributed to a crack-smoking scheme that ATT sold everyone (by which I mean execs, boards, etc) about a decade ago on about how they were going to try and turn into some world-spanning evil panopticon focusing on hoovering up customer data and leveraging it to magically drive consumers to their products, services, and content.

All manner of bizarre shuffling in their business units and product offerings resulted from this. The primary goal became "get an app/user presence for as many users and devices as possible", trusting that they'd just... somehow be able to do something with the info they collected.

Obviously this was fucking retarded, and I'm not sure if they were serious or if it was just cover for the usual golden parachute bullshit.

Posted by: heya at April 03, 2026 11:52 AM (tU7vi)

177 I could never hear what that guy in the Little Tramp movies was saying.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

178 I think the origin of uptalking probably comes from kindergarten teachers which, of course, are almost all female.
It's a way of explaining the simplest concept to a five year old and since it works there, hey, let's just talk that way all the time.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 11:52 AM (2Ez/1)

179 In that spirit, here is a Japanese band performing the bluegrass classic "Fox on the Run."
________

"Huh??"

-- Sweet

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 03, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

180 173 "The Shield" is back on Prime if you missed it 20 years ago.
Posted by: mr tmz at April 03, 2026 11:51 AM (rJ48h)

I could never get interested in that show because after the corny Commish I just couldn’t take Chiklis seriously as a tough guy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:54 AM (aSzdc)

181 Yeah, the Little Tramp was always unintelligible. And ditto Harpo Marx.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 11:54 AM (q3u5l)

182 I stretch my spine and it feels great.....then I sit......and whatever is moving, moves back to the bad place and the pain is quite unnerving.

Then, it just sucks again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

183 "With blackest moss the flowerpots were thickly crusted, one and all."
Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:48 AM


*gulp*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 11:54 AM (kgE5c)

184 I stretch my spine and it feels great.....then I sit......and whatever is moving, moves back to the bad place and the pain is quite unnerving.

Then, it just sucks again.
Posted by: Sponge

What'd you do to yourself?

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

185 Buck, you are not alone in noticing the mumbling dialog of modern movies. It drives Mr. Black and I crazy. I can only think of one reason it's done, and that's to make the conversation seem more realistic? I can't really put my finger on it, but it's extremely annoying.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (qBdHI)

186 170 It's airshow season again. I know this because the Blue Angels have been flying over my house three times this week during practice sessions, including at this moment.

I don't mind the noise -- sound of freedom and all that --- but, man, those engines on the D-model F/A-18s rattle the doors and windows something fierce.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 11:50 AM (Y1sOo)

I live near the Pease Air National Guard base in NH. All the A-10s that just went over to the Middle East had a layover there. They are loud - and it is beautiful to hear. At least if they aren't coming for you.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (N39Ws)

187 *gulp*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Ha! Glad someone got the reference.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

188 Another thot is that the sound is made for 1000 dollar sound bars and proper decoding like Dolby.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM (/+uur)

189 Oh, hi!

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM (rR03l)

190
What'd you do to yourself?
Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (77rzZ)



I'm guessing it was all the jumping and thrashing on un-suspensioned 3-Wheelers when I was a yute paying be back in my 29's.

Herniated disk or some such.....I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM (Zz0t1)

191 I have the same problem with the mumbling. Closed captions don't really help, as I can't keep up most times. I have an advantage though, I can pair my hearing aids with the TV.

Posted by: javems at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM (zFsEm)

192 Democrats
-----

We've seen that they can pluck a sleeper agent out of pretty much anywhere.

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 10:48 AM (iXqHn)

You know who else can pluck a sleeper agent out of pretty much nowhere?

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM (mWRBW)

193 They are loud - and it is beautiful to hear. At least if they aren't coming for you.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 03, 2026 11:55 AM (N39Ws)

You dont even hear the brrrrrrrppppppp if they are aiming for you.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:57 AM (/+uur)

194 Some of the closed captions leave a bit to be desired as well. I've seen some with "indecipherable" or "unintelligible" in the caption. The other night I pulled up an episode of I Spy in Amazon prime video, and there was the trigger warning of violence etc at the beginning and it also said "foul language." I thought, say what? Sure enough, during the show the captioning misinterpreted something Robert Culp said and plugged in an f-bomb.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026


***
If there was a show from the '60s that needs closed captioning, it's I Spy. I grew up with it and love it; the buddy comedy dialogue between Kelly and Scotty is fantastic. But you need to be able to hear it or read it. They both were kind of murmurers sometimes when working on that show. Culp by himself was excellent at enunciation.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:57 AM (wzUl9)

195 Take care of yourself, Sponge. Back pain is the absolute worst.

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2026 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

196 I stretch my spine and it feels great.....then I sit......and whatever is moving, moves back to the bad place and the pain is quite unnerving.

Then, it just sucks again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

Sorry about that Sponge… back pain is the worst.

Saying the pain is unnerving is a nice play on words seeing as how there’s probably a pinched nerve involved

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:58 AM (aSzdc)

197 Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/F2y5q31E1gQ

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Now I get what vocal fry is! I've read descriptions, but it didn't click. Now it does.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 11:58 AM (qBdHI)

198 >>>What is vocal fry ?

Posted by: tubal

>I always considered to be like Rod Stewart's singing voice after smoking a pack of non-filter Camel ciggies. Gravel in the gizzard.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 11:58 AM (UqSya)

199 It's not just you, Buck; I have the same complaint.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 11:58 AM (MIIRH)

200 GatewayPundit.....busy week

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the arrest of Jordanian national Salah Sarsour in Milwaukee. Sarsour, who is President of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee (ISM) — Wisconsin’s largest mosque, is being held in ICE custody in Indiana.

Sarsour is also a board member of the national pro-Palestinian advocacy organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

DHS says Sarsour is a terrorist and was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli soldiers. Sarsour then allegedly lied on his U.S. immigration applications to obtain a green card under President Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Sco7b)

201 Hillbilly Bears Pa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG6GLtl6G04

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:59 AM (/+uur)

202 >I always considered to be like Rod Stewart's singing voice after smoking a pack of non-filter Camel ciggies. Gravel in the gizzard.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026


***
Or like Peter Falk as Columbo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:59 AM (wzUl9)

203 200 DHS says Sarsour is a terrorist and was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli soldiers. Sarsour then allegedly lied on his U.S. immigration applications to obtain a green card under President Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Sco7b)

======

The admin already denaturalized two non-American born citizens for lying on their citizenship applications. Happened in the last couple of weeks.

So...this would be a fun high profile continuation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:00 PM (hAotW)

204 I always assume not making out dialog in movies is my hearing

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

205 >>I live near the Pease Air National Guard base in NH. All the A-10s that just went over to the Middle East had a layover there. They are loud - and it is beautiful to hear.

The four-ship Blues flew over a few minutes ago and set off the alarm on my neighbor's car parked in his driveway.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Y1sOo)

206 Wolfus -
I do need the captions on I Spy (and just about everything else) now, but I saw that show during its first runs back in the mid-60s and don't recall ever having trouble making out the dialog. I'm beginning to think that there's a slight possibility that I am becoming a certified old guy.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 12:01 PM (q3u5l)

207
Saying the pain is unnerving is a nice play on words seeing as how there’s probably a pinched nerve involved
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 11:58 AM (aSzdc)



I've had several xrays of my back over the years and no one has really found anything or said anything is 'wrong.'

However, now, I can feel things moving, which is a bit unsettling. I can get on the inversion table, lay back 3/4 vertical and push to stretch everything real good. I feel it pop back into where it feels great. I go about 10 minutes and if I can go back horizontal without it popping back, it feels great.

Then a movement moves whatever back out of whack and it's unsettling. I can't really point to a thing that I did to really piss it off, but this is the worst it's been.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

208 Herniated disk or some such.....I guess.MRI you never know

Posted by: doug at April 03, 2026 12:02 PM (Hy+R4)

209 The four-ship Blues flew over a few minutes ago and set off the alarm on my neighbor's car parked in his driveway.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 12:01 PM (Y1sOo)

The Blues at Pensacola look and feel like you could reach out and touch them.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 12:02 PM (/+uur)

210
DHS says Sarsour is a terrorist and was convicted of throwing Molotov cocktails at the homes of Israeli soldiers. Sarsour then allegedly lied on his U.S. immigration applications to obtain a green card under President Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 11:59 AM (Sco7b)



Moar of this. By the thousands, please.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

211 If there was a show from the '60s that needs closed captioning, it's I Spy. I grew up with it and love it; the buddy comedy dialogue between Kelly and Scotty is fantastic. But you need to be able to hear it or read it. They both were kind of murmurers sometimes when working on that show. Culp by himself was excellent at enunciation.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 11:57 AM (wzUl9)
It was the roofies. Oh, you said enunciation.

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (rR03l)

212 The admin already denaturalized two non-American born citizens for lying on their citizenship applications. Happened in the last couple of weeks.

So...this would be a fun high profile continuation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:00 PM (hAotW)

Especially if.....

What are the Hammer films like? Where could I find them if I'm interested?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Sco7b)

213 Japanese bluegrass so cool!

A wonderful thing has happened, all because of our President breaking the ice with one simple remark!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (MIIRH)

214 This is a gross misread of what Newsom is doing.

He's, at best, trying to be the Democrats' Trump by being vulgar and confrontational.

But, he combines that with being completely brainless and unable to think his way out of a paper bag, so his stated policies change based on the interview. "Oh, yeah, we should protect girls in sports," to "Oh, yeah, trans-girls are the only real girls" in back to back interviews.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 11:38 AM (hAotW)
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Yeah, hence the "no chance of occupying the 'competent' lane" remark.

He's a nepo baby retard. That doesn't mean he's not --trying-- to be "normal."

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (oqH4h)

215 Does anyone think that if these 2 pilots missing in action in Iran get found by the enemy before we get them will it severely impact Trump's good will for this "war"?

Posted by: Jaimo at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (BCuCF)

216 Herniated disk or some such.....I guess.MRI you never know
Posted by: doug at April 03, 2026 12:02 PM (Hy+R4



I've requested an MRI multiple times, each of which is denied by insurance. I just can't pay outright for one at this time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

217 Oh, denaturalizing Linda Sarsour would be awesome!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 12:04 PM (4KUe5)

218 213 Japanese bluegrass so cool!

A wonderful thing has happened, all because of our President breaking the ice with one simple remark!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (MIIRH)
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The Japanese have been big fans of a lot of American culture for a while now, including traditional and bluegrass music. Al Gore's Amazing Internet has finally connected all of us, which is cool.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (oqH4h)

219
Another thot is that the sound is made for 1000 dollar sound bars and proper decoding like Dolby.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 11:56 AM


it's easier to dub over mumbled, quiet dialog for releases in non-english speaking markets

that's why there's no real conversations or soliloquies anymore; just grunts and barks and zippy one-liners

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (tljrc)

220 I do need the captions on I Spy (and just about everything else) now, but I saw that show during its first runs back in the mid-60s and don't recall ever having trouble making out the dialog. I'm beginning to think that there's a slight possibility that I am becoming a certified old guy.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026


***
Our TV at home was a simple mono set, for one thing, and it was right near the window unit A/C. Both of these made nearly everything hard to distinguish. That said, *most* of the Kelly-Scotty dialog was just fine.

"Forget about the three dollars."

"I'm doin' William Shakespeare on the typewriter here, and you want me to forget about the three dollars?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (wzUl9)

221 He's an evil SOB and probably a faggot cocksucker too

As opposed to a fiercely heterosexual one?

Posted by: Corey! at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (gKWVE)

222 denied by insurance. Fuckers

Posted by: doug at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (Hy+R4)

223 I've requested an MRI multiple times, each of which is denied by insurance. I just can't pay outright for one at this time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Zz0t1)

That’s infuriating because the medical system should address pain without hesitation

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 12:05 PM (aSzdc)

224 212 What are the Hammer films like? Where could I find them if I'm interested?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (Sco7b)

========

I'm still in the 50s. Their horror movies, which people know the company for, will start for me soon with The Curse of Frankenstein.

So far, it's been more than 40 cheap movies, mostly BBC radio serial adaptations and noirs. A handful of comedies and even a couple of musicals.

There have been a handful of joys, but it's mostly...content. B-movies (in the literal sense) just made to quickly make small profits and keep cash flow positive from one production to the next.

I'm hoping I enjoy things more consistently once Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee get brought on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:06 PM (hAotW)

225 My friend and I saw Avatar 2 - I wasn't really interested but it was good.

I had in the rubber earplugs I use when mowing the lawn and still made out 99.5% of dialogue. Movie theaters are insanely loud.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:06 PM (Sco7b)

226
Sympathy for the back issue! I had the same thing a couple years ago and it fortunately went away... for now. Walking and diet seemed to help.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 12:06 PM (Y8DZL)

227 >>>Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”

Speaking of..

Rev Horton Heat will be here in Richmond this Sunday and I have my ticket to go

Posted by: Blanco at April 03, 2026 12:07 PM (sW/8y)

228 This week had to set up a appointment for a MRI, won't happen until July

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 12:07 PM (Ia/+0)

229 Spent my summers in the 1970s in Gulf Shores. Four Blue Angels would come streaking down the beach right over the surf at a very low altitude. Suddenly when they approached a crowd of people, one would flip over and fly upside down.

Because they could.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (2Ez/1)

230 I watch online shows, occasionally. I thought the problem was with my computer. I check the volume; it's on max. I still can't understand what people are saying. I need to rewind and put my ear to the speaker. I still can't understand. I'll turn the show/movie off. I know it's not me. I can hear other things quite fine.

Posted by: hadsil at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (Xht4H)

231 Nood. Iran.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

232 The admin already denaturalized two non-American born citizens for lying on their citizenship applications.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:00 PM (hAotW)


I read that as "denatured," and I am perfectly happy with that outcome.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (n9ltV)

233 I'm hoping I enjoy things more consistently once Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee get brought on.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:06 PM (hAotW

Cool. Thank you.

I'm watching brutal stuff but a lot of the asian stuff is heavy on characters and not very graphic. And I do like older films and British stuff.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (Sco7b)

234 The whole mumble thing seems to have started with Marlon Brando and James Dean. What's worse is the sound track playing while they mumble. I've seen a shit ton of lesser programs where the sound track, often appropriate for pron, is louder than the guy/gal doing the narration.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (n17eQ)

235
232 The admin already denaturalized two non-American born citizens for lying on their citizenship applications.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:00 PM (hAotW)

I read that as "denatured," and I am perfectly happy with that outcome.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (n9ltV)

======

Six of one...half a dozen of the other...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (hAotW)

236 The only thing that occasionally interfered with my catching a bit of Culp-Cosby dialog in I Spy was my own laughter at an earlier moment in the exchange. Jeez, those guys were terrific together in that show.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (q3u5l)

237 The Blues at Pensacola look and feel like you could reach out and touch them.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 12:02 PM (/+uur)
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I got one of the opposing solos give me a sneak pass halfway through my backswing at a golf course in Pensacola. lol

He knew what he was doing!

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:09 PM (oqH4h)

238 229 Spent my summers in the 1970s in Gulf Shores. Four Blue Angels would come streaking down the beach right over the surf at a very low altitude. Suddenly when they approached a crowd of people, one would flip over and fly upside down.

Because they could.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 12:08 PM (2Ez/1)
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Helps with the raging priapic erection the dude clearly had.

Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:10 PM (oqH4h)

239 Hollywood probably needs to be destroyed. If left around, it will inevitably affect the industries of countries like South Korea and Japan who do not yet produce woke garbage. Its magnetic pull even as it bleeds cash is baffling, but real. Let its ruins in Los Angeles serve as a warning to future generations.

Well, when we are in charge, in about 20 years or so, hollywood will be turned into an Islamic religious center for boys.

Posted by: American Muslims at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (HUHft)

240 "Yeah, hence the "no chance of occupying the 'competent' lane" remark.

He's a nepo baby retard. That doesn't mean he's not --trying-- to be "normal."
Posted by: ballistic at April 03, 2026 12:03 PM (oqH4h)"

Newsom is such a non-entity talking head that he was stupid enough to get the jab instead of fake it, because nobody bothered to tell him.

Remember when he had the stroke or GB afterwards and had to hide from the public for weeks?

Posted by: heya at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (ycedv)

241 and many Americans admire and enjoy aspects of Japanese culture, from anime to Zen.
But I really do think that PDT's joking remark opened up a new feeling between us, "that was a long time ago, we're past it, now we can be friendly" kind of thing.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 12:11 PM (MIIRH)

242 One thing that quitting smoking has brought into clear focus is just how many people around me really need a severe beating.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 03, 2026 12:14 PM (2UnvF)

243 1) IF I was a Hollywood sound engineer, I too would do my best to save humanity by making the crap writing that comes out of Hollywood unintelligible.

2) Those Japanese guys are really good. Hasn't the whole X thing been great? It astonished me to find Japan has been thinking we didn't like them.

Posted by: Persnickety at April 03, 2026 12:14 PM (NXsA/)

244 The reasons that movies have such difficult to hear dialog is complicated. Its partly related to how movie theaters are designed: you are literally surrounded by dozens of speakers at pretty high volume so it mixes well in a movie theater. Partly its a deliberate effort to make home viewing less pleasing, because they want you to go to theaters. Partly it has to do with the changes in digital sound and mixing technology.

And I suspect very strongly that it related to the problem that all of entertainment: they pushed all the old guys who knew how to do this out of the business in the MeToo movement and they are just no good at it any longer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:17 PM (El6/E)

245 I'm hoping I enjoy things more consistently once Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee get brought on.
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TJM, is House on Haunted Hill on the list? Cuz that one scared the shit out of me when I was eight.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (n17eQ)

246 IF I was a Hollywood sound engineer, I too would do my best to save humanity by making the crap writing that comes out of Hollywood unintelligible.

There is something to that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 03, 2026 12:19 PM (El6/E)

247 James Caan in Rollerball had some of the worst mumbling dialogue I’ve ever seen

Posted by: Machiavelli at April 03, 2026 12:25 PM (hCD5k)

248 The sound guys in Hwood say that dialogue is so hard to understand bc the sound is pushed through so many different streaming systems, so a lot is lost. I think that's part of it but it's this affectation for naturalness that is the main reason. I would also include lighting so dim that it looks like the action is taking place in a closet. I stopped watching Scandal years ago for that reason--couldn't see it!

Posted by: PJ at April 03, 2026 12:30 PM (+jscL)

249 Thank you for the very kind shout out ... and I second the support for George MF Washington!

Posted by: Christian Toto at April 03, 2026 12:48 PM (58JWE)

250 I can't claim to have great hearing, but a big part of the problem is the loud background music during dialog. Why can't they reduce or eliminate music while a character is speaking?

Posted by: Ralph at April 03, 2026 01:25 PM (8WZD4)

251 "Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If There’s an Upright Bass in the Band, It’s Probably Going to be Good”"
I would say just the opposite. you get something like the stray cats.

Posted by: docweasel at April 03, 2026 01:37 PM (nxgNB)

252 Hey Christian. You are doing such great work. Keep it up.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 03, 2026 01:56 PM (EB8vC)

253 Speaking of recent Hollywood movies with whisper dialog, I have found that wearing headphones or AirPods solves the problem.
Wait a minute!
Don't sound editing engineers wear headphones when making the final cut?

Posted by: John at April 03, 2026 02:12 PM (0DsdP)

254 I see what you did there. I like Sweet's version better.

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16 Japanese band performing ...“Fox on the Run.”

Sweet!

Posted by: Puddy Clarkman at April 03, 2026 03:49 PM (TvItB)

Mid-Morning Art Thread

Michelangelo crucifixion.jpg

Crucifixion
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Title checks out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (nWPIJ)

2 Happy Good Friday and Passover everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

5 The expression of the chick on the left is a bit confusing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

6 "Jesus of Nazareth, King Of The Jews"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (B+gJG)

7 "Happy Good Friday" always struck me as the wrong thing to say but one must admit, it led to the best thing ever.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (cYBz/)

8 Blessed Good Friday & Passover to all.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (NcvvS)

9 Pilate was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)

10 The expressions are... weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (AkEZC)

11 We're not worthy.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

12 Truly this was the Son of God.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 03, 2026 09:33 AM (lHPJf)

13 Pilate was angry that day, my friends.
Posted by: George Costanza

More specifically, the crowd was.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:33 AM (cYBz/)

14 The woman on the left has the legs of a deadlifter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2026 09:34 AM (nWPIJ)

15 Jesus' left hand looks...odd. Like it's not nailed to the cross.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 09:34 AM (ESVrU)

16 Who are the two uppermost 'people'? Angels?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (cYBz/)

17 Good choice... Blessed Good Friday to all who celebrate it...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (7U91U)

18 The woman on the left has the legs of a deadlifter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2026 09:34 AM (nWPIJ)



Those CALVES!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

19 It's supposed to be through the wrists.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (52ERr)

20 Who knew Jesus was a linebacker?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (n17eQ)

21 That's a very sanitized depiction.

"But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed."

Posted by: red speck at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (Ve/HL)

22 Does that mean fish?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (52ERr)

23 7 "Happy Good Friday" always struck me as the wrong thing to say but one must admit, it led to the best thing ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (cYBz/)

8 Blessed Good Friday & Passover to all.
Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (NcvvS)



One comment answered by the next.

This place......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

24 19 It's supposed to be through the wrists.
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Yep. And through the ankle, too.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (n17eQ)

25
And so the chief priests of the Jews were saying to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews’; but that He said, ‘I am King of the Jews.’”
Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

Posted by: John 19:21-22 at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Jesus' left hand looks...odd. Like it's not nailed to the cross.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 09:34 AM (ESVrU)




He's looking at the bright side of life?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

27 Church was packed yesterday for Holy Thursday.

Hopefully, it was not solely due to the pizza we served immediately before.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:37 AM (cYBz/)

28 It's supposed to be through the wrists.
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Yep. And through the ankle, too.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:36 AM (n17eQ)



I had this question.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

29 Leonard Wibberley, best known for The Mouse That Roared and its sequels, wrote 2 very good novels around the Passion and the early years of Christianity: The Centurion and The Testament of Theophilus.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:38 AM (NcvvS)

30
The Chosen.

Posted by: Come And See at April 03, 2026 09:39 AM (2Ez/1)

31 >>One comment answered by the next.

This place......

*fistbump*

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:39 AM (NcvvS)

32 I assume the woman on the lower left is Mary, but I don't know who are the others .

Posted by: dantesed at April 03, 2026 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)

33 Grazie, CBD.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (mWRBW)

34 Perfect pick, CBD. Thanks.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (Suwql)

35 I assume the woman on the lower left is Mary, but I don't know who are the others .
Posted by: dantesed at April 03, 2026 09:39 AM (Oy/m2)



I'm viewing the two in the background as Angels.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Would be the perfect piece for above the baptismal font at the Days Inn.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (nWPIJ)

37 Thanks, CBD!
Very appropriate for this Good Friday.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (NpAcC)

38 Pilate was pretty angry with the mob, certainly.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (pDt9x)

39 There not perfidious pick pockets?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (52ERr)

40 We have a baptismal font?

Posted by: The Days Inn staff at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)

41 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Signing checks must be a pain in the neck.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

42 Well 4th is a lot closer than 97th Sponge

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)

43 I assume the woman on the lower left is Mary, but I don't know who are the others .
Posted by: dantesed

The woman on the lower right is Mary Magdalene perhaps.

Posted by: Tuna at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (lJ0H4)

44 skull is a nice touch.

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)

45 Well 4th is a lot closer than 97th Sponge
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (Ia/+0)



You dribble and you shoot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

46 That's a lot of names.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (52ERr)

47 We have a baptismal font?
Posted by: The Days Inn staff at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)
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Sir, this is a Wendy's...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 09:43 AM (ESVrU)

48 Sir, this is a Wendy's...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 09:43 AM (ESVrU)




CRUCIFIXION vear!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

49 32 I assume the woman on the lower left is Mary, but I don't know who are the others .

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You don't know about the putti?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 03, 2026 09:44 AM (nWPIJ)

50 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:44 AM (/+uur)

51 We have a baptismal font?
Posted by: The Days Inn staff

Yeah, we’ve got a baptismal font… so we can finally get our Times New Roman fully christened before it hits the press. No more unholy kerning!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:45 AM (cYBz/)

52 We need to have AI render a version of this with Chicago Jesus' face.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 09:45 AM (UqSya)

53 No chocolate bunnies?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:45 AM (52ERr)

54 Wishing a blessed Holy Friday to all those who are celebrating this Sunday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 09:46 AM (kgE5c)

55 We need a Nun Art expert to give us all the details

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 09:46 AM (Ia/+0)

56 We need a Nun Art expert to give us all the details
Posted by: Skip

Perhaps but let's not make it a habit.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:47 AM (cYBz/)

57 41 he has a stamp

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 09:48 AM (R11M+)

58 44 skull is a nice touch.
Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 09:42 AM (R11M+)


Thank you!

Posted by: Yorick at April 03, 2026 09:48 AM (PiwSw)

59 Church was packed yesterday for Holy Thursday.

Hopefully, it was not solely due to the pizza we served immediately before.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2026 09:37 AM (cYBz/)
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Ours was too - and no pizza.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 09:51 AM (GZYu7)

60 Is the one in blue asking for directions?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:51 AM (52ERr)

61 Artwork Information
Title Crucifixion
Artist Michelangelo
Date 1540; Rome, Italy
Medium oil,panel
Art Movement Mannerism (Late Renaissance)

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:51 AM (/+uur)

62 sorry wrong one

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:52 AM (/+uur)

63 Nowadays, modern artists would have Jesus covered in tattoos like an MMA fighter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 09:52 AM (UqSya)

64 It's a little clean vs reality...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 03, 2026 09:52 AM (tOcjL)

65 Whew! That was close!

Posted by: Barabbas at April 03, 2026 09:53 AM (2Ez/1)

66 Crucifixion
Michelangelo
Date: 1540; Rome, Italy
Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Genre: religious painting
Media: oil, panel

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:53 AM (/+uur)

67 Nowadays, modern artists would have Jesus covered in tattoos like an MMA fighter.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 09:52 AM (UqSya)



Modern artists would fling poo on a canvas and declare it Jesus.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

68 Sir, this is a Wendy's...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 09:43 AM (ESVrU)



CRUCIFIXION vear!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)


Is veeery nice

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:54 AM (LVvlK)

69 Nowadays, modern artists would have Jesus covered in tattoos like an MMA fighter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 09:52 AM (UqSya)

On his way as a man condemned:

"Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children"

More badass than any MMA fighter

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:54 AM (mWRBW)

70 We have our Good Friday service tonight at 6. Solemn, unlike our Sunday Easter service. Solemn music, solemn service. We all have candles, real flame, which we light at the end, and leave in silence until we are out of the church building. Nothing fun about the death of the Son of God.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 09:54 AM (pDt9x)

71 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:55 AM (/+uur)

72 “ Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail.”

Isaiah 51:6

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2026 09:55 AM (q1tXs)

73 INRI? I'm not familiar with the Myers-Briggs category. I haven't to be INFJ, which is the rarest, because I'm quirky.

Posted by: Modern "Neurodivergent" AWFL at April 03, 2026 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

74 72 “ Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
look at the earth beneath;
the heavens will vanish like smoke,
the earth will wear out like a garment
and its inhabitants die like flies.
But my salvation will last forever,
my righteousness will never fail.”

Isaiah 51:6
Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2026 09:55 AM (q1tXs)

Amen.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 09:56 AM (pDt9x)

75 The Shroud of Turin confirms that Christ was nailed through His wrists.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 09:56 AM (qFwJc)

76 “ But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.”

Isaiah 53:5

Posted by: Marcus T at April 03, 2026 09:56 AM (q1tXs)

77 Christ is mannerist and the angels are chiaroscuro. Some experimenting.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 03, 2026 09:57 AM (wGerL)

78 Latin was Jless.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:57 AM (52ERr)

79 A prayer for the comfort of my younger brothers and sisters on their day of sorrow.

Missing you today {grammie}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 09:58 AM (RIvkX)

80 77 maybe. written iesus.

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:01 AM (R11M+)

81 This Easter Sunday will be reasonably somber. Most of my family is gone, my brother isn't doing all that well and this will be the first without the First Lady's father. Sister-in-Law's mother isn't doing well and will be moving in with them for hospice care.


Life gets hard at times. Keep your faith strong. It all matters. It all works out in the end.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

82 Lord, let me walk
That lonely road with You
Under the weight of the wood
Lord, let me walk
That last mile in Your shoes
Under the weight of the wood

Freedom can be found
Laden down
Under the weight of the wood

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 10:01 AM (DgMqy)

83 Our Maundy Thursday homily was interesting, exploring Satan's role as both tempter and accuser. He whispers 'Do as thou wilt for your life is brief', and when you do, he points his finger and says 'See, what a piece of shit you are, God wants nothing to do with you'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 10:04 AM (4NO2D)

84 81 mom (9 will receive violets and lilies of the valley (fragrant). it is all she wants. boy, his, girl, my sis...
the rest are all gone. wifey passed two years this month.

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:05 AM (R11M+)

85 'Do as thou wilt for your life is brief'

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cit. Rules for Radicals

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 10:06 AM (RIvkX)

86 what's that weird little block on post 84? shes 98, independant, alone in her condo.

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)

87 Thanks for this one CBD. On this day I’ve been reflecting on the crucifixion as described in John 19 and though it is somber what really stood out to me is over and over again in that passage is the phrase “that the scripture might be fulfilled”…. The crucifixion was in the plan of God and every detail was directed by his sovereignty. Very thankful for this…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 10:07 AM (xT8gx)

88 Do NOT do as you will, for your life is brief is what is accurate.

Posted by: tubal at April 03, 2026 10:08 AM (pDt9x)

89 beautiful. thanks.
The Nicest Guy of All Time.

Posted by: vivi at April 03, 2026 10:09 AM (jC0jb)

90
And He said to him, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”

Posted by: Luke 23:43 at April 03, 2026 10:09 AM (2Ez/1)

91 That facial expression on Jesus does not work for me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at April 03, 2026 10:09 AM (xcxpd)

92 Good morning. I wish you all a blessed Easter and Passover.
Thanks for the beautiful artwork CBD.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:09 AM (2J/Lj)

93 What is truth?

Posted by: Derak at April 03, 2026 10:10 AM (76U4D)

94 Is truth unchanging law? We both have truths. Are mine the same as yours?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 10:11 AM (4NO2D)

95 Was wondering the same thing.

Posted by: Pilate at April 03, 2026 10:11 AM (2Ez/1)

96 Part of Our Lord's anguish was that most of His closest betrayed Him, denied Him, and abandoned Him.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 10:12 AM (DgMqy)

97 Buonarotti vs. Caravaggio

Who wins in a fight to the death?

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (uEmCf)

98 Very moving painting ( Thanks, CBD) and thanks, forum folks, for your posting of scripture, reflections on Jesus' death as well as your encouragement to "keep the faith" in difficult times. It's much appreciated.

Posted by: Fenelonspoke at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (ZeH0U)

99 What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Dismas and Gestas at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (Y1sOo)

100 1 cross + 3 nails = 4given.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (2J/Lj)

101 Happy Spring Holiday Weekend everyone!

City of Houston
@HoustonTX
Due to the Spring holiday weekend, City of Houston offices will be closed on Friday, April 3.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

102 what's that weird little block on post 84? shes 98, independant, alone in her condo.
Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:07 AM (R11M+)



Something is wrong with smilies.mee.nu. You put an 8 with a ) which makes a smiley face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:14 AM (Zz0t1)

103 93 What is truth?
Posted by: Derak at April 03, 2026 10:10 AM (76U4D)
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1. Moshiach is coming.
2. Sooner than you think.
3. You're not ready.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 10:14 AM (RIvkX)

104 Every time I look at you I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand? You'd've managed better if you'd had a plan. Now why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at April 03, 2026 10:14 AM (4NO2D)

105 What Crucifixion scene is best portrayed in TV/movies?

Risen, Ben-Hur, or Jesus of Nazareth?


Posted by: dantesed at April 03, 2026 10:15 AM (Oy/m2)

106 the rest are all gone. wifey passed two years this month.
Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:05 AM (R11M+)



I am sorry to hear this. By the Grace of God, the First Lady survived her bout with cancer and is still with our daughter and I.

First Daughter will be spending Easter with her boyfriend, so we will not have her here either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

107 First reports are that the Pilot and Weapons Officer ejected from their F-15E, and have already been safely extracted from Iranian territory.

Fast footwork by the SAR community and their supporting air components. A plane crew in Iranian hands - ** Shudder**

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 10:16 AM (u82oZ)

108 toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 10:11 AM (4NO2D)

Quoting Pontus Pilate.

I find this to be the most penetrating and poignant observation/question of that day.

I know the truth. I tremble that if I had been there, what would I have done? Crucify him?

Tremble.

Posted by: Derak at April 03, 2026 10:16 AM (76U4D)

109 The truth is God's vibration when all else is stripped away.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:17 AM (mWRBW)

110 "Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication."

Ah, but the Romans had created an infrastructure of roads, allowing the gospel of the kingdom to spread far and wide.
By personal testimony of those whose lives were changed.

Posted by: Not an accident at April 03, 2026 10:18 AM (2Ez/1)

111 passion of the christ is a good substitute for the Stations of the Cross.

Posted by: vivi at April 03, 2026 10:18 AM (jC0jb)

112 From JJ's link about the shipwreck being foThe battle also is believed to have inspired the phrase “to turn a blind eye.” After deciding to ignore a superior´s signal, Nelson, who had lost sight in his right eye, reportedly remarked: “I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:18 AM (ndZc7)

113 USS Gerald R. Ford has left port in Croatia and is heading for the Med.

USS Boxer ARG departed Pearl on Wednesday, reportedly heading for the ME. That's about three weeks of sailing before arriving in the NAS/GOO. And that assumes the Boxer ARG doesn't port in Diego Garcia first, as did the Tripoli ARG before in-chopping to Fifth Fleet AOR.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 10:19 AM (Y1sOo)

114 the rest are all gone. wifey passed two years this month.
Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 10:05 AM (R11M+)
==
My first wife passed 12 years ago on Palm Sunday - a week before I came into the Church. Lots of memories tied up in all this very important time. I hope you are doing well. I remember myself two years past and I was still a mess.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 03, 2026 10:21 AM (GZYu7)

115 Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 10:19 AM (Y1sOo

This seems to indicate that this Trump fellow could be quite serious about knee capping those terrorist people.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:21 AM (2J/Lj)

116 Coloring Easter eggs, no idea why but tradition

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 10:21 AM (Ia/+0)

117 Looks like somebody dropped the ball.

California police find decomposing body of DUI suspect inside squad car at station

https://is.gd/b2zfyZ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)

118 What Crucifixion scene is best portrayed in TV/movies?

Risen, Ben-Hur, or Jesus of Nazareth?


Posted by: dantesed at April 03, 2026 10:15 AM (Oy/m2)

IMO Ben Hur

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (xT8gx)

119 Mary wears blue.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (rbvCR)

120 Ethnic cleansing underway in New York -- a jury of retarded third worlders and liberal scum acquit black accused of killing white cop.

It's now legal to kill whites in New York...and from now on, probably every other American city.

Vigilantism to ensue, God willing.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (qwx/I)

121 "...before in-chopping to Fifth Fleet AOR."

More jargon please.

Posted by: Smart Military Blog reader at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)

122 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:09 AM (2J/Lj)

Been missing you lately, nice to see you

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:23 AM (mWRBW)

123 Moshiach is coming.

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Came.

Posted by: Derak at April 03, 2026 10:23 AM (76U4D)

124 My dad passed away one year ago yesterday. The Missus gave me a squeeze when we prayed for the faithful departed at Mass last night. She good.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 10:23 AM (DgMqy)

125 Racist bastard!

Obama Presidential Library Says Only U.S. Citizens, Legal Residents Can Win Free Tickets For Opening

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

126 121 "...before in-chopping to Fifth Fleet AOR."

More jargon please.
Posted by: Smart Military Blog reader at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (2Ez/1)
EOS 90 days, commence ROAD.

Posted by: Eromero at April 03, 2026 10:24 AM (rR03l)

127 Allen Dulles, of CIA fame was a fan of the James Bond series, albeit spycraft isn’t really as portrayed in the movies. Ian Fleming was a spook, too.

Dulles codename was “No” when he was stationed in Bern, Switzerland during world war two. I wonder if the title of the movie “Dr. No” was a nod to Allen Dulles?

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 10:25 AM (85pLS)

128 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 03, 2026 10:25 AM (2UnvF)

129 The pain of betrayal and especially the pain of being falsely accused each cut like a thousand razors.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:25 AM (mWRBW)

130
Obama Presidential Library Says Only U.S. Citizens, Legal Residents Can Win Free Tickets For Opening

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)



"Your hypocrisy knows no bounds........"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:25 AM (Zz0t1)

131 Risen, Ben-Hur, or Jesus of Nazareth?

The Passion of the Christ.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 10:26 AM (qFwJc)

132 Posted by: Sid at April 03, 2026 10:25 AM (5aw3i)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 03, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

133 Why is Sid happy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Coloring Easter eggs, no idea why but tradition
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 10:21 AM (Ia/+0)

I'm painting three very large plastic Easter eggs. Using pearl white over a yellow base is.... finicky. It's taking forever. The rest of my Easter decor is finished. One old wooden toolbox stuffed with flowers and a rough cross that Hubbymayhem made. In front of that are three painted pots for the eggs. And a little vintage painted wooden bunny.

If I ever get the eggs right it should look pretty.... um, pretty.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:26 AM (2J/Lj)

135 In DDG enter - Crucifixion Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - the fifth entry from the top is AoSHQ by CBD.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 10:27 AM (9L6d7)

136 Nice painting.

We allow no art of Allah. Wouldn't be prudent.

Oh, there it is again, the call to prayer. Toodles!

Posted by: New York City Muslim Man at April 03, 2026 10:27 AM (/1l9x)

137 In DDG enter - Crucifixion Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni - the fifth entry from the top is AoSHQ by CBD.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 10:27 AM (9L6d7)



Mine yields different results.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:28 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Yeah, I'm hearing the lost a/c was out of Lakenheath.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 03, 2026 10:28 AM (qwx/I)

139 The ancient Romans were certainly cruel b*******, weren't doing they?

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 10:30 AM (JbPL7)

140 Why am I loved only when I’m gone?

Posted by: Jesus at April 03, 2026 10:31 AM (E6xSb)

141 Why is Sid happy?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL he is *here*, he is anything but happy.

One day he will wake up and say "oh yeah, got 'emmmm" and smile to himself - and the singe of emptiness will do nothing but burn.

The worst part of being sid is that *we* remain joyful whether he is here or not. The misery he believes he is spreading is nothing but a mirror of his own tortured nerves.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:31 AM (mWRBW)

142 So Sid is cheering the IRI, huh?

Go figure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (E6xSb)

143 would hang, gently and respectfully

Posted by: Gref at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (5rh/l)

144 It's now legal to kill whites in New York.
——

Eh, it’s been open season on Whitey for decades now. Everyone was too frightened to mention this in polite company, for the mortal fear of being called “racist”. It is absolutely hilarious to watch “liberals” dance around the issue of avoiding, ah, certain demographics and their customary vibrancy.

30 or 40 years ago the academics were complaining that whitey was moving to the suburbs or rural states to avoid high crime and general enshittification of the society. It’s no accident that decades later Barky and the Boys in particular employed a process where they flooded suburban and rural areas with their favorite illegal aliens. “You will be made to care” kind of mentality.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (kvBVm)

145 Big Fat Meanie

The Panthers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (u82oZ)

146 Been missing you lately, nice to see you
Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:23 AM (mWRBW

Thank you sweetheart. Been busy with real world stuff. My grandson had his first birthday and Hubbymayhem made rocking horse that's is actually a giraffe! I had to spend vast amounts of time painting it to get it ready for the big day! Also had a tooth pulled. And the girl spawn was home for Spring break.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

147 Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 10:27 AM (4NO2D)

Don't cut and paste troll droppings.

This isn't complicated.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (n9ltV)

148 Due to the Spring holiday weekend, City of Houston offices will be closed on Friday, April 3.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7

Hmmmm. Spring holiday weekend.

WTF is that?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 10:34 AM (E6xSb)

149 The ancient Romans were certainly cruel b*******, weren't doing they?
Posted by: JM in Illinois

They wouldn't even recognize made up pronouns!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:35 AM (ndZc7)

150 Great beaver story

https://x.com/DoctorLemma/status/
2039642747087237468

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)

151 Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM (2J/Lj)

Oooooh so glad to hear it's all good stuff. Giraffe sounds awesome - weirdly my favorite animal, something very "hereafter" about them. Enjoy and Happy Easter back to you!!!

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 10:38 AM (mWRBW)

152 Big Fat Meanie

The Panthers are 494th Fighter Squadron, part of the 48th Fighter Wing based at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 10:38 AM (u82oZ)

153 Speaking of cruel b******* . . .

James Carville Says Dems Will Go After Trump’s Kids and Their Spouses After Midterms

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

154 120 Ethnic cleansing underway in New York -- a jury of retarded third worlders and liberal scum acquit black accused of killing white cop.

It's now legal to kill whites in New York...and from now on, probably every other American city.

Vigilantism to ensue, God willing.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 03, 2026 10:22 AM (qwx/I)

They would have acquitted him if he had killed a black cop, because a black cop is like an overseer working for The Man. An Uncle Tom.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 10:39 AM (E6xSb)

155 Great beaver story

https://x.com/DoctorLemma/status/
2039642747087237468
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)

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I am not falling for this.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 10:40 AM (Dtohe)

156 I'm painting three very large plastic Easter eggs. Using pearl white over a yellow base is.... finicky. It's taking forever. The rest of my Easter decor is finished. One old wooden toolbox stuffed with flowers and a rough cross that Hubbymayhem made. In front of that are three painted pots for the eggs. And a little vintage painted wooden bunny.

If I ever get the eggs right it should look pretty.... um, pretty.
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Next year, just buy the 10lb Chocolate Easter Bunny from CostCo.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 10:40 AM (n17eQ)

157 {{{Madamemayhem (uppity wench)}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 10:41 AM (u82oZ)

158 Least shocking news of the century.

Justice Jackson Signals Support for Extending Birthright Citizenship to Visiting Foreigners

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:41 AM (ndZc7)

159
James Carville Says Dems Will Go After Trump’s Kids and Their Spouses After Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

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Trump will need to pardonverybody in his administration before he leaves

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (Dtohe)

160 154 120 Ethnic cleansing underway in New York -- a jury of retarded third worlders and liberal scum acquit black accused of killing white cop.
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Maybe the cops spend more time at the donut shoppe and allow the vibrancy to hum at a high level? This has happened before.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (n17eQ)

161 The teal fun began in 70 AD.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (52ERr)

162 @NaCly Dog, thank you for the update, I was stationed there many moons ago. I hope the crew has been rescued.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 03, 2026 10:43 AM (qwx/I)

163 Hmmmm. Spring holiday weekend.

WTF is that?
Posted by: Cow Demon

It's when the Spring Holiday Weekend Bunny comes leaving chocolate and hiding eggs!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:43 AM (ndZc7)

164 Thanks cbd for today's artwork

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 03, 2026 10:44 AM (2NHgQ)

165 This may seem unimportant, but the aspect of the painting that most effects me is the way Christ is shown. This isn't the scrawny physique, like a skinny Hippie, so often used. Christ is shown as a muscular, very physical man, killed in his prime. His expression doesn't deny the agony but he still appeals to His father to forgive his murderers. Everything else, well done as it is, is secondary.

This might be the most effective painting of the crucifixion ever created.

Posted by: JTB at April 03, 2026 10:45 AM (yTvNw)

166 159
James Carville Says Dems Will Go After Trump’s Kids and Their Spouses After Midterms
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:39 AM (ndZc7)

Even Carville's Trump voodoo doll calls him a loser and hid the strawberries from him.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 03, 2026 10:45 AM (tYGL3)

167 James Carville Says Dems Will Go After Trump’s Kids and Their Spouses After Midterms.
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Serpent Head is way past his shelf life.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 10:46 AM (n17eQ)

168 >>James Carville Says Dems Will Go After Trump’s Kids and Their Spouses After Midterms


I appreciate that they are going full mask off, but it's a little frightening. Carville is auditioning for the "Who Goes Nazi First" game.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:46 AM (Suwql)

169 ----------------
Maybe the cops spend more time at the donut shoppe and allow the vibrancy to hum at a high level? This has happened before.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (n17eQ)

And walk around writing tickets to make money for NYC and not do anything that might be dangerous.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (E6xSb)

170 Great beaver story

https://x.com/DoctorLemma/status/
2039642747087237468
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 10:37 AM (/+uur)



Nice beaver!


There was a guy with a podcast, military guy, that told that story. He did a fantastic job telling it and made it pretty entertaining. It's a hilarious story.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

171 Well, I'm scratching climb Mount Everest off my bucket list.

EVEREST mountain guides have been accused of secretly poisoning climbers to trigger costly helicopter rescues as part of a multi-million pound insurance scam.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)

172 Morning, Art Folken,

In keeping with the Easter theme, sort of, the 1966 epic The Bible in the Beginning is on Movies!, with Michael Parks as Adam, George C. Scott as Abraham and Ava Gardner as Sarah, and director John Huston as Noah. Anybody ever watched it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (wzUl9)

173 Big Fat Meanie

We have A-10s, C-130s and more in the SAR effort.
C-130s over Iran, and within range of ground (rifle) fire.
CENTCOM is silent, so far. So is Iran.

One report is we got them back.

Iranians saying the hunt is on, with a $30,000 reward. Iranians misidentified the plane as F-35.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (u82oZ)

174 Trump will need to pardonverybody in his administration before he leaves
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (Dtohe)
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The Dems aren't going to let petty things like Presidential pardons stop them from exacting revenge on their enemies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (ESVrU)

175 EVEREST mountain guides have been accused of secretly poisoning climbers to trigger costly helicopter rescues as part of a multi-million pound insurance scam.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)
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If you can't trust your Sherpas, who can you trust?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 10:48 AM (ESVrU)

176 174 The Dems aren't going to let petty things like Presidential pardons stop them from exacting revenge on their enemies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (ESVrU)

We've seen that they can pluck a sleeper agent out of pretty much anywhere.

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 10:48 AM (iXqHn)

177 81 This Easter Sunday will be reasonably somber. Most of my family is gone, my brother isn't doing all that well and this will be the first without the First Lady's father. Sister-in-Law's mother isn't doing well and will be moving in with them for hospice care.


Life gets hard at times. Keep your faith strong. It all matters. It all works out in the end.
_ _ _ _ _

Strange to get into the stage of life where relatives and friends begin dying -- when the rhetorical idea of death becomes real. I've lost my dad, two aunts, and an uncle in the last year. People who are constant fixtures in one's life. And the idea that this is not the end finally starts to come clear. Jesus said to the guy on the cross, "Today you'll be with me in paradise." First, the thief was unremarkable apart from his deference to Christ. Second, when the Creator of the Universe calls what is awaiting us "paradise," you KNOW it's going to be good!

Happy Easter, all!

Posted by: red speck at April 03, 2026 10:49 AM (Ve/HL)

178 ---
The Dems aren't going to let petty things like Presidential pardons stop them from exacting revenge on their enemies.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM (ESVrU)



This.

They are evil. They don't care about the law, The Constitution or anything else that would tell them they can't, because they will. No one will stop them.

This country is about to have the most important election it's ever had and I think our side isn't taking it seriously at all.

We lose the midterms, it begins. We lose the presidency, it's OVER.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

179 These days, Easter baskets are costing more, and the chocolate rabbits hitting shelves are supersized. Costco's latest offering is a massive 10-pound Giant Chocolate Bunny that literally requires a hammer or mallet to break into pieces.

This is so cool.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 10:50 AM (n17eQ)

180 Don't cut and paste troll droppings.

This isn't complicated.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 10:32 AM


I thought Sid was among the tolerated and not deleted, for the mockery I assumed.

My mistake.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 03, 2026 10:50 AM (4NO2D)

181 >>Due to the Spring holiday weekend, City of Houston offices will be closed on Friday, April 3.


Do they name Hindu and Muslim holidays on their calendar.

Texas is no longer Texas.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:51 AM (Suwql)

182 what's that weird little block on post 84? shes 98, independant, alone in her condo.
Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026


***
Here, if you follow an "8" immediately with a ")", the software injects a smiley. Maybe your browser, and mine, isn't showing that but a block.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (wzUl9)

183
Texas is no longer Texas.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:51 AM (Suwql)



Houston, Austin and Dallas, yes.

Texas is still Texas most everywhere else.

Unfortunately, the libs tend to migrate to the big cities and dominate the population.

Texas isn't gone, yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

184 >>This country is about to have the most important election it's ever had and I think our side isn't taking it seriously at all.

We lose the midterms, it begins. We lose the presidency, it's OVER.



This is why so many are demanding the Save America Act. It is out GOP leaders who are not taking it seriously.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (Suwql)

185 There was a guy with a podcast, military guy, that told that story. He did a fantastic job telling it and made it pretty entertaining. It's a hilarious story.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:47 AM


You're thinking of The Fat Electrician's "Band of Beavers" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcdvP8CYPB0

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (kgE5c)

186
You're thinking of The Fat Electrician's "Band of Beavers" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcdvP8CYPB0
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (kgE5c)



YES!

Thanks for the assist.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

187 This seems to indicate that this Trump fellow could be quite serious about knee capping those terrorist people.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)
--

Thune?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 10:53 AM (9L6d7)

188 >>Texas isn't gone, yet.

GOOD!
What I am reading about places like Frisco are disheartening.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:53 AM (Suwql)

189 So they shot down one of our planes and are searching for the pilots ? Yikes

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 10:53 AM (FtULh)

190 174- true. They really are the Evil Party. They are ruthless, they are tireless, they are vengeful, and they are possessed by and driven by pathological hatred. They will never stop until they utterly crush any opposition, and punish and impoverish their enemies and their families and control and subdue any opposition. The truth is meaningless to them....and you know who the Father of Lies is.

We have to vote in every election, even for school boards or dogcatcher, as if our lives depend on it.
Because they do.

Posted by: vivi at April 03, 2026 10:54 AM (jC0jb)

191 Great beaver story

https://x.com/DoctorLemma/status/
2039642747087237468
Posted by: r hennigantx

So are you thinking a solution to the Somali problem?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 10:54 AM (ndZc7)

192 Posted by: red speck at April 03, 2026 10:49 AM (Ve/HL)

Yes… as the years go by I understand more and more that verse in the Bible that says: What is your life but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanisheth away.

Nothing here is permanent but eternity is reality.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 03, 2026 10:55 AM (X5Baq)

193 @150/r hennigantx: "Great beaver story"

Here's The Fat Electrician's take on it:

America's Airborne Beavers - Operation Beaver Drop - Yes This Actually Happened

https://youtu.be/YcdvP8CYPB0

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 03, 2026 10:55 AM (O7YUW)

194 YES!

Thanks for the assist.

*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 10:53 AM


*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 03, 2026 10:55 AM (kgE5c)

195 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Good morning Hordemates.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 03, 2026 10:55 AM (2WIwB)

196 >>This country is about to have the most important election it's ever had and I think our side isn't taking it seriously at all.

We lose the midterms, it begins. We lose the presidency, it's OVER.

This is why so many are demanding the Save America Act. It is out GOP leaders who are not taking it seriously.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (Suwql)

----

I hate to be a downer, but it's true. Democrats have already announced plans to pack SCOTUS and that will be it

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 10:57 AM (wHUDr)

197 Well, that's not very nice.

Trump Calls for Boycott of “Dried Up Prune” Bruce Springsteen

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 03, 2026 11:00 AM (ndZc7)

198 Houston Mayor's Office
@houmayor
Wishing those who celebrate, a joyful and blessed Eid al‑Fitr.

May this occasion bring peace, prosperity, and renewed gratitude.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 11:00 AM (Suwql)

199 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 11:01 AM (Zz0t1)

200 And the are planing to nuke the filibuster, of course. On a simple majority vote

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 03, 2026 11:02 AM (wHUDr)

201
Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum
(Latin)

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 11:03 AM (fNISR)

202 GOOD!
What I am reading about places like Frisco are disheartening.
Posted by: Lizzy
---------

Any blue city take a compass and draw a 30 to 45 mile circle around it. Dallas - frisco, plano, etc. Then there is that whak a doodle college town just North of Dallas. It's nest.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 11:06 AM (9L6d7)

203 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Hilarious! Well spotted.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 11:07 AM (u82oZ)

204 @203/NaCly Dog: I may have watched a LOT of the Fat Electrician's videos. His stories are amusing and VERY well researched and told!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 03, 2026 11:10 AM (O7YUW)

205 I'm getting all kinds of different answers but nothing with Michelangelo and this painting.
What is up?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 11:27 AM (9L6d7)

206 Thank you, CDB.

Memorial Acclamation

🙏

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 03, 2026 11:39 AM (6HSZZ)

207 106 114
staight mess. but less of a mess than finding her.
the waves are not as strong, they continue.
thank you both.

Posted by: cmeat at April 03, 2026 11:51 AM (R11M+)

208 104 Every time I look at you I don't understand why you let the things you did get so out of hand? You'd've managed better if you'd had a plan. Now why'd you choose such a backwards time in such a strange land? If you'd come today you would've reached a whole nation. Israel in 4 B.C. had no mass communication.

Posted by: Judas Iscariot at April 03, 2026 10:14 AM (4NO2D)



I've often wondered that myself, but always conclude that if that were today, it would all be dismissed by the jaded and unbelieving, overexposed masses, not to mention an evil press which only seeks to subvert the truth at every turn (you *REALLY* don't hate them enough times a billion!)

Instead, he came at a time when mankind still had the capacity to believe in something beyond themselves, or their bank accounts or government.

Me? I am just glad that he came at all, to save us from ourselves. :-)

God bless you all!

Posted by: shred21 at April 03, 2026 12:54 PM (VdLpC)

The Morning Report — 4/3/26

YumShrimp.jpg

A good Good Friday morning kids. Let's dive right in.

So, President Trump has sacked Pam Bondi from her position as Attorney General. Her tenure these past several months has been checkered to say the least. And many of our fellow Floridians were not exactly thrilled when Trump tapped her to lead the DOJ in the first place.

She probably wasn’t as bad as her detractors think she was (her job is harder than most realize), but she wrongfooted herself so badly there was no recovery. . . I must admit that I had a problem with Bondi from the get-go because of her involvement in the 2012 George Zimmerman case. Zimmerman was acquitted because he acted in self-defense, something that was always obvious if one paid attention to the facts without being blinded by racial politics. Bondi was the Florida AG at the time, and she supported Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who indicted Zimmerman. . . Since Bondi took over, there have been two complaints: First, she’s failed to bring any indictments against the Democrats who have played fast and loose with the law since Trump’s first day in office. Second, she’s failed to bring any indictments in connection with the Epstein matter or even to name names. . . Whether a victim of circumstances, misspeaking, or genuine boneheadedness, Bondi wasn’t working, so today, Trump made a very kind announcement that she’s out:

Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General. . .

Given the vicissitudes of politics, it is reasonable to ask did Bondi screw the pooch or was she handed a pre-screwed pooch to begin with when she got pinned with the badge as America's top cop? And depending upon what happens in Iran as well as the midterms, when It comes time for this President to depart the Oval Office come late January of 2029, we may very well be asking the very same question. As the saying goes "Personnel is Policy," and especially in his first term, President Trump made some horrible choices for his cabinet and other key advisors. To his credit, Hegseth, Rubio and Zeldin have been outstanding, and I envision the first two as potential if not likely presidential candidates, if not in 2028 then certainly 2030 and beyond.

Moving on to the immigration situation, as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and on the popular platforms listed at the bottom of the post,

we were talking about the complete bastardization of the 14th amendment vis a vis birthright citizenship for the spawn of illegal aliens and other non-citizens who intentionally or otherwise give birth on our territory and then voila, instant American!

In that vein, we have a story that might otherwise fly under the radar but for its implications in the broader immigration debate as it pertains to our national security and identity, both of which are interrelated because when you lack the latter you lose the former and vice versa.

“There’s a high bar to denaturalization.”

There isn’t really. We mostly choose not to pursue denaturalization. Yes, past Supreme Court decisions have made denaturalization more difficult than it was ever meant to be, but mostly we don’t even try.

Here’s what happens when we do try.

. . . “Gaining citizenship after committing serious crimes against the American people is an unacceptable abuse of our immigration system,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “These latest denaturalizations illustrate this Department of Justice’s focus on ensuring that citizenship remains a privilege to obtain, not a right to abuse.”

That’s the important precedent being set here.

The actions of the two spies were not even extraordinary. Sadly a huge chunk of Chinese Communist ‘students’ and ‘researchers’ operating in the United States are doing the exact same things.


For decades, the Chi-Coms in particular have been actively promoting so-called "birth tourism" sending pregnant Chinese women to America for the specific purpose of giving birth here so that their little bastards can become automatic citizens and then ultimately Red Chinese agents, actively working to undermine us from within via espionage/sabotage as and when directed or merely to vote en masse as a bloc to influence our elections by putting in office leftist traitors.

And so with the above, it perhaps puts the tenure of Pam Bondi as AG in a bit more flattering light. And if we are willing to denaturalize those who abrogated their oath of citizenship by betraying us then perhaps we can do this en masse to however many thousands of Somalis, Afghanis, and other third-world turncoats who never had any intention of assimilating but of at a minimum being leeches and at worst, fifth columnists.

So, fare thee well Pam Bondi and thank you for this and laying the groundwork for more of this. Hopefully your successor will do exactly this.

And speaking of Red Chinese agents and scumbag degenerate traitors:

California's top Democratic gubernatorial candidate has plenty of problems with his residency, his primary residence mortgage issues, and his lovelorn involvement with a Chinese spy who helped him pick his congressional staff.

His lack of fitness for office, though, is all the worse because of his financial problems, including some bizarre and outrageous campaign expenses and failure to file his taxes on time, along with an unverified social media report claiming that he sexually harassed interns and then paid them off by forcing them to sign non-disclosure agreements. . .

. . . According to JustTheNews:

California governor candidate Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell's finances show that he delayed paying his federal taxes, and spends the most on child care in the House with campaign funds.

Swalwell and his wife, Brittany, made an average income of more than $444,000 from 2021 to 2024, which included cash-raising moves such as drawing down retirement accounts, delaying federal tax payments, and spending on child care with campaign funds, according to tax returns and campaign finance filings, the Sacramento Bee reported.

The Swalwells' income puts them in the top 5% of households in Washington, D.C., where the couple owns a $1.2 million home, in addition to the congressman renting a room in Livermore, Calif., owned by another family.

Lest we forget his consorting and cavorting with a known Red Chinese Spy Fang-Fang which earned him the nickname Yum Yum during a Congressional hearing last year but considering who she is and works for, makes it not a matter for levity.

Denaturalizing immigrant fraudsters like the aforementioned and please God BRO-FO OMAR and her ilk is one thing.

Treason trials for Swalwell and everyone like him should also be a priority, if not a pipedream.


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1 Made it!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (NR6c1)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (AkEZC)

3 Happy Good Friday everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Happy Good Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (/+uur)

5 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

6 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

7 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at April 03, 2026 07:43 AM (I6rgD)

8 As I asked downstairs
Why do I think the Supreme Court will split the baby in half with their decision?

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 07:44 AM (Ia/+0)

9 encourages supervisors to identify 'subtle' slights workers experience 'due to their group identity'"

Ah, tribalism. It's what's for...ever.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:44 AM (XuXeR)

10 The MSM. It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at April 03, 2026 07:45 AM (UoFpr)

11 In too many situations, everyone knows what needs to be done. They just …. want someone else to do it.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 07:45 AM (f9G9D)

12 11th

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)

13 Pam Blondie. Never has someone accomplished so little after having been given so much.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions, Alabama Hillbilly at April 03, 2026 07:46 AM (5itIU)

14 Do I surmise correctly from the first few sentences up top that JJ is in Florida?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 03, 2026 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

15 12 11th
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:46 AM (qFwJc)

"Pfft!"

-- Fifth Third Bank

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:46 AM (x0n13)

16 Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who indicted Zimmerman

The whole Chantal thingy was so fucking weird. She was not on the Phone. She was not the so called GF.
The entire judge, jury, prosecutor, and defense should have been hung and the courthouse burned down.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:47 AM (/+uur)

17 “Federal law is clear: illegal immigrants don’t get preferential treatment at Kentucky’s public universities, and Kentucky taxpayers certainly shouldn’t be footing the bill.

Now waiting for Rand Paul to protest along with McConnell.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 07:48 AM (NR6c1)

18 I'm looking forward to spending more time with my private sector.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 03, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

19 The Swalwells' income puts them in the top 5% of households in Washington, D.C., where the couple owns a $1.2 million home, in addition to the congressman renting a room in Livermore, Calif., owned by another family.
=====

Lives in D.C.

Rents a room in his "district"

Party Soldier

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

20 Also downstairs - toilet ah, “issues” loomed large in Apollo, too. When 8 splashed down in the Pacific, the Navy frogman who initially opened the hatch gagged and slammed it back shut. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 07:49 AM (f9G9D)

21
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 07:49 AM (tljrc)

22 8 As I asked downstairs
Why do I think the Supreme Court will split the baby in half with their decision?
Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 07:44 AM (Ia/+0)



Perhaps the Dobbs Decision that killed Roe v. Wade was more palatable for this Court than correcting the 14th Amendment. Doing so would really put a huge torpedo into the Democrats/globalists.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:49 AM (x0n13)

23 “Gaining citizenship after committing serious crimes against the American people is an unacceptable abuse of our immigration system,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

In Japan you steal a wallet and TA fuckin DA, you are turning Japanese.

Posted by: Action Jackson Brown 25 at April 03, 2026 07:50 AM (/+uur)

24 In 2023 Gavin Newsom did what he called a "Red State" tour and visited Alabama, Florida and a few other red states.

Newsom's wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

https://is.gd/l0uOk9

These people are loathsome. You really can't despise them enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 07:50 AM (bBeUT)

25 We missed it by THAT much!

Posted by: Second Fourth Bank at April 03, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

26 In Japan you steal a wallet and TA fuckin DA, you are turning Japanese."

Especially if you get the vapors...

/

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:50 AM (XuXeR)

27 24 In 2023 Gavin Newsom did what he called a "Red State" tour and visited Alabama, Florida and a few other red states.

Newsom's wife said she brought her children to the red states so they could learn about racism, sexism, and bullying first hand.

https://is.gd/l0uOk9

These people are loathsome. You really can't despise them enough.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 07:50 AM (bBeUT)



She should've brought them to a cave in Tora Bora or to Finsbury Park to get gang raped by Muslims.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:51 AM (x0n13)

28 Did Newsome go to Atlanta to see all the black racists there?

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 07:51 AM (UoFpr)

29 Listen to me Trump I’m going to tell your fat fucking ass something you’re getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you. Then they’re going to go after you stupid jackass kids and their spouses and all of the bullshit that you see, and they’re going to investigate shit out of you. And then when it comes to this stuff, you’re doing in Iran, I got to tell you, you’re getting really, really, really close to war crimes here. You’re probably going to cross the line.
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James Carville contributing his two cents to the public discourse.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 03, 2026 07:52 AM (EtI5d)

30 She should've brought them to a cave in Tora Bora or to Finsbury Park"

Could'a just gone down to MacArthur Park...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:52 AM (XuXeR)

31 In Japan you steal a wallet and TA fuckin DA, you are turning Japanese.

I swear that even the WISE LATEEEEEENA! looks at her in disbelief at the idiocy that comes out of Jackson's mouth.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 07:52 AM (NR6c1)

32 John Roberts is owned. Amy Barrett is a papist and the pope is pro-illegal. Plus the three libtards. Kavanaugh is a squish.

I don't see the good guys winning this one.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 07:52 AM (bBeUT)

33 Leading Ethics Journal Floats Forced Abortion For Minors
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I'm not sure they understand what the word "ethics" means....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 07:53 AM (ESVrU)

34 James Carville contributing his two cents to the public discourse."

That's not worth $.02...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:53 AM (XuXeR)

35 During your tour make sure you drive down every MLK Jr. Boulevard you can.

Posted by: And lock your car doors at April 03, 2026 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)

36 I'm not sure they understand what the word "ethics" means...."

Sure they do. It's "what feels good to me"...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:54 AM (XuXeR)

37 Why do illegal aliens attend public schools on the taxpayer dime? Because the supreme court held they have that right. And federal cannon confetti-bucks are showered on the school districts for every ass in the seat. Everything has been effectively monetized in the sense people have an incentive to make bank. Fake day care, fake students, fake college degrees, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 07:55 AM (f9G9D)

38 A report from the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI), France’s primary domestic intelligence agency, said that there is a growing terror threat from the “new hyperconnected generation” of young people, mostly aged 13 to 17.
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France experiencing explosion of unruly "youths" too? Hard to picture Madeline or Tintin causing a ruckus, but I guess French kids aren't what they used to be.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 07:55 AM (Dv3i1)

39 33 Leading Ethics Journal Floats Forced Abortion For Minors
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I'm not sure they understand what the word "ethics" means....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 07:53 AM (ESVrU)


"We read that as Ethnics!"


- - Mengele & Sanger LLC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:56 AM (x0n13)

40 18 I'm looking forward to spending more time with my private sector.
Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 03, 2026 07:48 AM (2Ez/1)

HI AUNT PAM!

*waves*

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at April 03, 2026 07:56 AM (Y1sOo)

41 Bondi's greatest talents has been image management. She's an accomplished careerist. But she wasn't entirely incompetent; part of being a accomplished careerist is actually accomplishing enough to sustain a career.

Democrats have no problem appointing a Beria for the job and getting away with it -- with GOP support. Republicans can't get close to appointing a Joe McCarthy or any type of legal warrior.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 07:56 AM (E2lD7)

42 "Trump made horrible choices the first time" is such a soiled rag.
There were no good choices.
Every choice he made we said, yeah he's good guy, or he's a tough guy. The fucked him.
Then he went to the military because they are honorable men regardless of personal thoughts, right?

THEY ALL STABBED HIM IN THE BACK

THERE WERE NO GOOD CHOICES

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:56 AM (9L6d7)

43 A report from the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Intérieure (DGSI), France’s primary domestic intelligence agency, said that there is a growing terror threat from the “new hyperconnected generation” of young people, mostly aged 13 to 17.

--

Hmm, I wonder why? What could possibly get the main contributor....? I'm so perplexed!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

44 Kill chain migration.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (+nEug)

45 35 During your tour make sure you drive down every MLK Jr. Boulevard you can.
Posted by: And lock your car doors at April 03, 2026 07:53 AM (2Ez/1)


Do a drive through at Denny's


as in Reginald Denny at Florence & Normandie!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (x0n13)

46 >Given the vicissitudes of politics, it is reasonable to ask did Bondi screw the pooch or was she handed a pre-screwed pooch
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well, she talked a good game during her confirmation hearings, but her performance in office was underwhelming, to be polite about it

for the US AG, I want a stone-cold killer

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

47 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

48 Why do illegal aliens attend public schools on the taxpayer dime? "

Ask Jack Greenberg...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:59 AM (XuXeR)

49 It seems difficult to find Trump level cabinet members. DC is full of pond scum and it seems most all are scummy or become covered in scum quite quickly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 07:59 AM (Zz0t1)

50 for the US AG, I want a stone-cold killer
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

He or she will never pass the senate.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 07:59 AM (E2lD7)

51 ______

France experiencing explosion of unruly "youths" too? Hard to picture Madeline or Tintin causing a ruckus, but I guess French kids aren't what they used to be.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
---

Kids are the only one's with courage to stand up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:59 AM (9L6d7)

52
Denaturalization, reminds me of the Honeymooners scene with Norton dressed as a man from space and his "DeNaturizer" pops off his costume!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 07:59 AM (x0n13)

53 Here is a very interesting, at least me, factoid.

Of the first 50 Popes, 49 are Saints. Most were martyred.

Ff all of them about 1/3 were good and saintly. 1/3 were mediocre, and the other third were evil bad men.

Just because Leo XIV was validly elected, unlike Bergoglio, it doesn't mean he is not an heretic.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:00 AM (qFwJc)

54 The department's Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging provides the "Microaggressions" training to help senior leaders and employees identify "subtle" slights that people experience in the workplace "due to their group identity," the records show.

And Whirled Peas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:00 AM (/+uur)

55 “new hyperconnected generation” of young people, mostly aged 13 to 17."

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it ain't the "connections"...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

56 NATO plans to replace US troops with 100,000 Muslim young men.

No white girl will be safe.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:01 AM (qFwJc)

57 as in Reginald Denny at Florene & Normandie!"

What's funny is that Florence and Normandie is now Hispanic Central...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:02 AM (XuXeR)

58 >>>Fred Fleitz: Trump’s Iran strategy aims for swift, decisive victory—crushing nuclear ambitions and ending the war in weeks, not years, without risking American boots on the ground.

With every passing day, the anti-Trump and anti-American (BIRM) Americans and Europeans on some other blogs make more dire predictions about the result. Forever war, gas prices above $10/gallon by the fall, a thousand dead soldiers and Marines per week by June, yada, yada, yada. I feel confident this will end without all that, long before the naysayers predict. When the Regime collapses, I believe it will happen rapidly. The calendar date when that tipping point arrives, I don't know. Weeks at most.

Posted by: Gref at April 03, 2026 08:02 AM (5rh/l)

59 Betrayal is a bitch and should be met with a proper response. Soft is not it. It doesn't have to be Putin's window but it must be severe or it will be repeated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:02 AM (9L6d7)

60 37 Why do illegal aliens attend public schools on the taxpayer dime? Because the supreme court held they have that right.
_____

Judicial decisions that require taxpayer money to implement should require a vote on the funds. The people vote down taxes needed to pay for the ruling? Then ruling doesn't get implemented.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (Dv3i1)

61 Perhaps 1/3 of AGs are good men, 1/3 are mediocre, and the other 1/3 are evil, bad men?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)

62 Judicial decisions that require taxpayer money to implement should require a vote on the funds"

Funny, that.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

63 A sad if funny video is Winston Marshall
UK vs Hungary Mass migration Myth on YouTube

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 08:04 AM (Ia/+0)

64 19 The Swalwells' income puts them in the top 5% of households in Washington, D.C., where the couple owns a $1.2 million home, in addition to the congressman renting a room in Livermore, Calif., owned by another family.
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Lives in D.C.

Rents a room in his "district"

Party Soldier

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)


He's a Pelosi Pet. Along with Schiff-for-brains.

Posted by: Gref at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (5rh/l)

65 Glover's answer is a quiet rebuke to all of it. He's not dismissing representation. He's doing something harder. He's asking us to be above obsessing over identity, for us to get to a point where the history being made is just human history.

--

I loved this. And he's a handsome man, if I might add.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (qBdHI)

66 Perhaps 1/3 of AGs are good men, 1/3 are mediocre, and the other 1/3 are evil, bad men?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)



I was awesome.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (Zz0t1)

67 > Warship Sunk by Admiral Nelson in 1801 Rediscovered by Archaeologists

French tourist on HMS Victory: "Are these the actual cannonballs used in the Battle of Trafalgar?"

Tour guide: "No, madam. Your navy has all of those."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (IG3/x)

68 Biden's Supreme Court DEI hire may be the apex of weaponized retardation, but Paul Ryan thinks she's brilliant.

"My praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal,”

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (bBeUT)

69 When the Regime collapses"

Exactly which part of "the regime" is still drawing breath? They're pretty much all toasted.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (XuXeR)

70 Perhaps 1/3 of AGs are good men, 1/3 are mediocre, and the other 1/3 are evil, bad men?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)



You want your AG to be your wingman. I was king of the wing, bitches.

Posted by: Eric Holder at April 03, 2026 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

71 My investment club bought a little exposure to SpaceX, via shares of Echostar, the owner of Dish networks and some other random stuff. Echostar is selling radio spectrum licenses to SpaceX for use by Starlink, in return for SpaceX shares, so buying Echostar stock gives you an eventual interest in SpaceX.

Or, you can wait for the IPO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 03, 2026 08:06 AM (JN5c9)

72 Biden's Supreme Court DEI hire may be the apex of weaponized retardation, but Paul Ryan thinks she's brilliant.

"My praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal,”
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (bBeUT)



Paul Ryan talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

73
Trafalgar spelled backwards . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 08:07 AM (x0n13)

74 It's gotta be humiliating for Mrs. SwallowsWell to see all the discussion of Fang Fang Gang Bang Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.


What's the female equivalent of "cuck".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2026 08:07 AM (IG3/x)

75 "It doesn't have to be Putin's window..."

What does that even mean?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 03, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Canada MAID service at April 03, 2026 08:08 AM (53oGX)

77
how 'bout Tom Homan or Greg Bovino for AG?

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 08:09 AM (tljrc)

78 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Canada MAID service at April 03, 2026 08:08 AM (53oGX)



Is this like getting a shout out from the Grim Reaper?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

79 Trafalgar spelled backwards . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 03, 2026 08:07 AM (x0n13)



Rag la FART!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

80 > Or, you can wait for the IPO.
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I wonder what the initial price per share will be.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (AkEZC)

81 The movie 1917 takes place on Good Friday.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (EzwfA)

82 Tanned, rested and ready, Donald!

Posted by: Dan Bongino at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

83 The movie 1917 takes place on Good Friday.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (EzwfA)



What year?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

84 I don't know whether we were duped into thinking guys like Paul Ryan were conservative, or whether they are "conservative' in the sense of not undoing the things leftists have done.

I don't think there are any conservatives anymore. There are only Institutionalists represented by Paul Ryan, John Thune, and the Bush-Republican establishment and Restorationists represented by "MAGA."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:11 AM (bBeUT)

85 Tanned, rested and ready, Donald!
Posted by: Dan Bongino at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)



You're a quitter and the biggest worry in your mind is for Israel.

Sorry, you had your chance, slick. Piss off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

86 >>What's the female equivalent of "cuck".

cuckquean

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 08:11 AM (Y1sOo)

87 What's the female equivalent of "cuck".

cuckquean
Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 08:11 AM (Y1sOo)



Twuck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

88 Biden's Supreme Court DEI hire may be the apex of weaponized retardation, but Paul Ryan thinks she's brilliant.

"My praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal,”

--

Paul Ryan's mask dropped long ago. This is just further proof of what he really was and is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

89 Judicial decisions that require taxpayer money to implement should require a vote on the funds.
——

Well, of course that’s the rub. The people did vote initially. “We’re not gonna pay for that”.

But this ruling and others incentivized illegal migration no way around it. Cost shifting, always on the backs of the taxpayer. The states don’t have the printing press. Society gets more of what you subsidize, and they have de facto turned illegal migration into a gargantuan money laundering operation. Cheap, or cheaper labor. “Expert economists” ‘splain how destroying our manufacturing sector is awesome. The whole thing is just perverted and wicked.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 08:13 AM (f9G9D)

90 Oh goody, Nato wants to arm a Muslim army
Bit then the Auto-Pen administration armed up the Taliban

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 08:14 AM (Ia/+0)

91
Paul Ryan's mask dropped long ago. This is just further proof of what he really was and is.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)



Why does anyone care one bit about anything that retard has to say?

Who's still sticking a microphone in his face?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

92 ***Trump doesn’t need a ground war to claim victory in Iran
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Victory is unconditional surrender by the adversary.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:15 AM (9L6d7)

93 "Glover's answer is a quiet rebuke to all of it. He's not dismissing representation. He's doing something harder. He's asking us to be above obsessing over identity, for us to get to a point where the history being made is just human history."

It's a very Star Trek attitude. And I mean good Star Trek, not post-modern SSRI and Klingon twink Star Trek.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:15 AM (bBeUT)

94 49 It seems difficult to find Trump level cabinet members. DC is full of pond scum and it seems most all are scummy or become covered in scum quite quickly.
Posted by: Sponge
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To actively manage a department, you have to a) have reliable undersecretaries in place, b) familiarity with the department without being captured by the swamp c) a willingness to be the president's enforcer on lower level employees and force them out if they are not doing what they should be doing.

State officials made into secretaries of departments are outsiders but then often have to fight a hostile bureaucracy and sometimes their own underlings. Many, like Trump's first EPA director in term 1, get destroyed early on by a Democrat bureaucracy. Others just go native to keep their permanent DC ties and opportunities like Mark Esper.

DoJ is particularly dysfunctional for the GOP as lawyers nowadays are predominately of the left from law school, undergraduate, social networks, and temperament. So every GOP DoJ appointee, unless acceptable aka moderate left to the lawyer bureaucrats, is far right wing. Hard to get GOP conservative change agents as DAs in place.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:15 AM (E4rtv)

95 It's time to get some high heels on the ground.

Posted by: Sam Brinton at April 03, 2026 08:16 AM (2Ez/1)

96 Who's still sticking a microphone in his face?
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FoxNews: The network of controlled opposition

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:16 AM (bBeUT)

97 It's a very Star Trek attitude. And I mean good Star Trek, not post-modern SSRI and Klingon twink Star Trek.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:15 AM (bBeUT)



What do the Starship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common?


They both search Uranus for Kilngons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

98 NATO plans to replace US troops with 100,000 Muslim young men.

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This is hilarious! I foresee no repercussions of such a stupid decision in the offing. Go ahead, NATO. But do so on your own dime.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

99 --

This is hilarious! I foresee no repercussions of such a stupid decision in the offing. Go ahead, NATO. But do so on your own dime.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)



Congress must approve a NATO withdraw, but can't Trump divert funds from them?

Enjoy your jihad, NATO. Let me know how that works out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

100 I remember female conservative "pundits" swooning over Paul Ryan. He ran marathons, lifted weights and was a square-jawed, fearless budget hawk!

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:18 AM (E2lD7)

101 46 for the US AG, I want a stone-cold killer
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

Remember James Mattis?

The Killiest Killing Killer who ever Killed?

Remember how much of a flaming disappointment he was?

Just because a man loves to kill, it doesn't make him a solid badass conservative.

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 08:19 AM (iXqHn)

102 What do the Starship Enterprise and toilet paper have in common?

They both search Uranus for Kilngons.

Posted by: Sponge

Ladies and gentleman, behold a 60 year old joke!

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:19 AM (Y8DZL)

103 I remember female conservative "pundits" swooning over Paul Ryan. He ran marathons, lifted weights and was a square-jawed, fearless budget hawk!
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:18 AM (E2lD7)



Who was the guy from the northeast that drove a pickup truck and wore flannel? He was so dreamy and was supposed to turn the NE red.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

104 Former J6 Defendant Turned DOJ Senior Adviser RESIGNS — Says Deep-State Rot Too Entrenched to Expose From Within

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (RHGPo)

105 I want Jeanine Pirro for AG

With a truncheon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

106 The Lebanese PM sounds impressive, but it is just talk.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (defCJ)

107 56 No white girl will be safe.
Posted by: no one of any consequence


No boy will be safe either.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (NR6c1)

108
Ladies and gentleman, behold a 60 year old joke!
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:19 AM (Y8DZL)



I heard it yesterday for the first time on Mr. Inbetween, thank you very much.

Largely not giving a f*ck about Star Trek means I've avoided most things about it for a huge portion of my life, so deal with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

109 We’ll see if the DOJ is manageable by any Republican AG. The entrenched bureaucrats are dug in deep. Good luck to anyone in that position at this particular moment and prior to a midterm election.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 03, 2026 08:21 AM (OTOad)

110 Former J6 Defendant Turned DOJ Senior Adviser RESIGNS — Says Deep-State Rot Too Entrenched to Expose From Within
Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (RHGPo



That makes one worthless and weak. Drop and give me 20, then f*ck off.

Way to pull a Bongino.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

111 I remember when OJ Simpson was sent into space in Capricorn One. That dude could never stand up as a man and handle his shit.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 08:22 AM (UqSya)

112 Blessings to all on this Good Friday.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

113 No boy will be safe either.
Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (NR6c1)

Farmers, watch out for your goats.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:22 AM (E2lD7)

114
Farmers, watch out for your goats.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:22 AM (E2lD7)



Annie, get your goat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Posted by: Lady in Black at April 03, 2026 08:13 AM (qBdHI)

Paul Ryan is now in it for the money. He has no scruples, no political philosophy, and no shame.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (defCJ)

116 I remember female conservative "pundits" swooning over Paul Ryan. He ran marathons, lifted weights and was a square-jawed, fearless budget hawk!
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:18 AM (E2lD7)

He also had a very big and large, hard stack of paper when he rolled out his proposed "balanced" budget ideas. He is and always will be an asshole like the people who voted for him.

Posted by: Wisconsin Is For Assholes at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (5itIU)

117 All the people yukking it up over the Bondi firing should prepare to be disappointed by her replacement given that none of the structural issues facing her have been resolved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

118 Largely not giving a f*ck about Star Trek means I've avoided most things about it for a huge portion of my life, so deal with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
=====

You should really reconsider.

I would hate for this phaser to go off accidentally.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

119
Paul Ryan is now in it for the money. He has no scruples, no political philosophy, and no shame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (defCJ)



Nor power. He's a private citizen with no power whatsoever and was largely a failed representative of his constituents. Who gives a f*ck what this asshole has to say about anything?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

120 The movie 1917 takes place on Good Friday.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 08:10 AM (EzwfA)


What year?"

Grant's Tomb.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (XuXeR)

121 Happy Good Friday and Passover all!!

Posted by: Jonah at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

122
I would hate for this phaser to go off accidentally.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)



Bring it, you mealymouthed faguette.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

123 Largely not giving a f*ck about Star Trek means I've avoided most things about it for a huge portion of my life, so deal with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
====

Mr. Sponge, your Agonizer, please.

Posted by: Mirror Universe Spock at April 03, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

124 Paul Ryan negotiated "budget deals" that gave Obama more money than he asked for and called them "conservative victories."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:25 AM (pQpGo)

125 And then you have the Senate where mediocrities go to stay. Remember Sleepy Jeff? On paper, very conservative senator, early Trump supporter, and yet one of the worst AGs in recent history. He essentially let Rod, the Rat, Rosenstein run a Democratic special prosecutor op without hinderance on a very fake Democratic and IC manufactured premise. Then Barr, the former AG and insider was brought in to finally terminate that op after the damage was done and Barr promptly promised a lot and sat on his ass instead regarding weaponization of the DoJ and Nat Sec to try to get rid of a president that the bureaucratic insiders and to be honest a lot of the House and Senate didn't want.

Democrats on the other hand, had corrupt Eric Holder waved in as AG despite being intimately involved in the Clinton cash for pardons, followed by another Obama crony, Loretta Lynch who had the tarmac meeting covering up the Clinton crimes as SoS. Then you had Merrick Garland who became Democrat's Torquemada as AG and breaking copious laws while doing so.

Holder, 19 Republicans voted for him
Lynch, ten GOP members including McConnell
Garland, 20 Republicans. See the problem?

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:25 AM (E4rtv)

126 Largely not giving a f*ck about Star Trek means I've avoided most things about it for a huge portion of my life, so deal with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)
=====

Sp-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-nge!

Posted by: Ka-a-a-a-a-a-hn! at April 03, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

127 I examined the public communication of 21 graduate student unions for which information was available and found that they are generally obsessed with anti-Israel activity, with 76 percent taking official positions critical of the Jewish state.

The other 24% said they wanted nothing to do with them Jew people.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (/+uur)

128 All the people yukking it up over the Bondi firing"

Who are they, and why should I care?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (XuXeR)

129 Initially, there was a lot of discussion on who might be considered a good candidate to become an Astronaut. Mountain climbers, skydivers, race car drivers, submarine crewmembers. And Poets! Gotta have someone who can describe the great void of Space with suitable prose.

It soon became apparent however that these would be extremely dangerous experimental test flights, and the initial requirements were that only military test pilots with advanced engineering degrees need apply. There was a further benefit in that they all had extensive medical documentation and they were previously vetted for security and background checks.

The Kennedy administration to their credit pushed very hard for a “minority” or black astronaut. The problem was finding a qualified individual. In those days, there was a general sentiment by the leaderships that they had no problem with this. It wasn’t “racism” however they were insistent that they were not going to skip over more qualified candidates simply to meet “diversity goals”.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (f9G9D)

130 >>>101 46 for the US AG, I want a stone-cold killer
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:57 AM (ZxPkt)

Remember James Mattis?

The Killiest Killing Killer who ever Killed?
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on the list: Tough Texas ex-Exxon tough guy
Rex Tillerson put mind and body into fucking Trump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (9L6d7)

131 Paul Ryan thinks she's brilliant.

"My praise for Ketanji’s intellect, for her character, and for her integrity, is unequivocal,”
_____

I don't understand,...

Posted by: Justice KBJ, DEI at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (Dv3i1)

132 Bondi did a good job, but just did not have the Eye of the Tiger. Noem also. Two good conservative women who served their country. Enough said

Posted by: Jonah at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

133 The other 24% "

So, Maths.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

134 Good Friday is a weird day you can't say "happy Good Friday"

anyway Happy Passover! I look forward to Easter and meditate today on the suffering of the Christ

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (j+aD2)

135 123 Largely not giving a f*ck about Star Trek means I've avoided most things about it for a huge portion of my life, so deal with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

Never caught on to it as a kid. Give me "Wild, Wild West" any day.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (E2lD7)

136 132 Bondi did a good job, but just did not have the Eye of the Tiger. Noem also. Two good conservative women who served their country. Enough said


Jonah well said

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (j+aD2)

137 Paul Ryan is now in it for the money. He has no scruples, no political philosophy, and no shame.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 03, 2026 08:23 AM (defCJ)

We toss around grifter a lot, but it is apt. For almost all of these guys. If they do not start out that way, that town has a way of making them into it.

In a way it's not surprising. The way things work, getting elected for anything can be turned into winning the lottery. Look at how regular lottery winners (most) do. Brings out the worst in people often.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (bss/y)

138 I guess I should be nicer on this Good Friday as it is Holy Week.

Jesus gave his life for us. I should be more appreciative.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Star Trek wasn't for everyone. It required a certain level of intelligence. When Jar Jar Abrams and Alex Kurtzman took over, they turned it into dumb action slop. That more than anything else killed the franchise.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (pQpGo)

140 Nor power. He's a private citizen with no power whatsoever and was largely a failed representative of his constituents. Who gives a f*ck what this asshole has to say about anything?
Posted by: Sponge
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Ryan is a Senior Executive at Foxnews which also plays into the consistent Foxnews demoralization polling and state calls organization run for a Democrat since 2010. Guy named Mishkin. He is the one that 'called' Arizona with few votes in and signalled the beginning of the Democrat cheat in 2020. Former Dem operative for a bunch of Dem candidates before his Fox post. Fox has consistently the worst media polling (which is saying something) of all the networks no matter who is their pollster.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (E4rtv)

141 Paul Ryan negotiated "budget deals" that gave Obama more money than he asked for and called them "conservative victories."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:25 AM (pQpGo)

I had suspected it for awhile, but that was when I knew for sure what's going on in that Party, and gave up the idea of fixing it, and switched into demolition mode.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (BI5O2)

142
Never caught on to it as a kid. Give me "Wild, Wild West" any day.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (E2lD7)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

143 134 Good Friday is a weird day you can't say "happy Good Friday"

anyway Happy Passover! I look forward to Easter and meditate today on the suffering of the Christ
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (j+aD2)

Yeah, it is an odd one. 'Happy Day when God sent His only Son to save our ass- because we all suck!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:29 AM (bss/y)

144 =======
Ryan is a Senior Executive at Foxnews



Ah, so like the Owebama's and Netflix.

Makes sense. What an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Good Friday is a weird day you can't say "happy Good Friday"

anyway Happy Passover! I look forward to Easter and meditate today on the suffering of the Christ
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (j+aD2)


Thank you. Another one that bothers me is "Happy Memorial Day".

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (LVvlK)

146
I heard it yesterday for the first time on Mr. Inbetween, thank you very much.

Still as funny as when I heard it on the elementary school playground.

Poo joke appreciation has been passed down to my grandkids, much to my delight.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (Y8DZL)

147 Pam Bondi chose to never prosecute Epstein
For that shrimp have her that position as a reward

Epstein !

Posted by: Paul at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (PQ3eP)

148 Different landscape when Holder was confirmed. Dems had 60 votes in the Senate in 2009, was not going to be stopped. Garland was a disgrace by Senate GOP. Senate was 50-50, but McConnell was a deep state ass whore

Posted by: Jonah at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (YCxFk)

149 130 on the list: Tough Texas ex-Exxon tough guy
Rex Tillerson put mind and body into fucking Trump.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (9L6d7)

Also : HR McMaster, who did everything in his power to submit to Islam.

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (iXqHn)

150 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 178,000 in March, and the unemployment rate
changed little at 4.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
occurred in health care, in construction, and in transportation and warehousing. Federal
government employment continued to decline.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (/+uur)

151 Poo joke appreciation has been passed down to my grandkids, much to my delight.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (Y8DZL)



#Winning

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

152 Massie is insufferable.

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

153 Well, that would be more Christmas.

Good Friday is: 'Happy Day when we killed the only Son of God!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:31 AM (bss/y)

154 Judicial decisions that require taxpayer money to implement should require a vote on the funds

Do you think that funding 'education' wouldn't get massive bi-partisan support? Do you think that any Republican would call for depriving poor brown children - who shouldn't be in the country - of an education at someone else's expense?

While the quoted statement is correct, the issue is that too many people in this country have a say about where money goes which costs them nothing. Voters who pay no taxes vote for Congress people who don't care how many trillions in debt they send us. Everyone wants their cookie NOW and they expect someone else to pay for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

155 I think Bondi was protecting CIA and Foreign Assets who were on the Island

Posted by: Jonah at April 03, 2026 08:31 AM (YCxFk)

156 Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

What a cock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (bss/y)

157 I believe styleguide calls for Rex Fvcking Tillerson.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

158 So, Maths.
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

It was simple subtraction so I thot it would be allowed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (/+uur)

159 Give me "Wild, Wild West" any day."

"I dare you to knock this battery off"

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

160 It's like saying "Happy Memorial Day" and yet people do say that.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (Y1sOo)

161 @RepThomasMassie

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)



This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

162 158 So, Maths.
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

It was simple subtraction so I thot it would be allowed.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (/+uur)

That's what you get for thinking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (bss/y)

163 the template for AG should be Vlad The Impaler

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (ZxPkt)

164 152 Massie is insufferable.

Thomas Massie
@RepThomasMassie

Congratulations AG Blanche. Now you have 30 days to release the rest of the files before becoming criminally liable for failure to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

Massie is Masshoe

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (/+uur)

165 Star Trek was sold to the suits as “Wagon Train to the Stars”. That made sense. There were a lot of weird TV shows at the time. The Westerns had reached saturation levels.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (f9G9D)

166
But... but... Paul Ryan was a bow hunter!

He looked dreamy in those photos of him in camos and compound bow!

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (Y8DZL)

167 We toss around grifter a lot, but it is apt.

------

Yeah, it is. It's called ConInc for a reason. The GOP is history's most successful and morally repugnant confidence scheme. It generated billions of dollars in rakeoffs for its perpetrators, and the cost to its victims was the destruction of their nation and way of life. Bernie Madoff was a teddy bear compared to these shameless fuckin' animals.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (BI5O2)

168 Tough Texas ex-Exxon tough guy
Rex Tillerson"

Band jock... and assho.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

169 Image up top. Swalwell looks like a high school student on his first date at prom.

Why do we have such corrupt morons running this country?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

170 I really believe Epstein's Island was a honey pot for the Deep State to control its clients and that's what they're afraid of exposing.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (DaYai)

171 163 the template for AG should be Vlad The Impaler
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 08:33 AM (ZxPkt)

Eh.

Vlad would set people up, and if they didn't catch that they'd been set up, he'd kill them.

Posted by: XTC at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (iXqHn)

172 It was widely noted elsewhere that Hegseth asked the general to resign like an hour after WaPo published leaked detailed war plans. Smells like treason.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (QZThv)

173 Federal government employment continued to decline in March (-18,000). Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (/+uur)

174 That's what you get for thinking."

Cipher'n.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

175 Why do we have such corrupt morons running this country?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)


Same reason a dog licks its balls

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (LVvlK)

176
In a way it's not surprising. The way things work, getting elected for anything can be turned into winning the lottery. Look at how regular lottery winners (most) do. Brings out the worst in people often.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Son, we're glad you got elected, good to see you here.
Let me show you the table of goodies.
We have committee assignments, bill sponsorship, fact finding junkets, all these and more at the table plus campaign money from our fund along with endorsements. All you have to do is play along. OK?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (9L6d7)

177 Gene Roddenberry was a perv and a shyster; it's really what other people did with Star Trek that made it great.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (DaYai)

178 169 Image up top. Swalwell looks like a high school student on his first date at prom.

Why do we have such corrupt morons running this country?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

I hear he is fucking most of his staff even a 19 YO or 2

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (/+uur)

179 136 132 Bondi did a good job, but just did not have the Eye of the Tiger. Noem also. Two good conservative women who served their country. Enough said


Jonah well said
Posted by: BlackOrchid

The center to DC corruption is the Senate. That is why the base voters of the GOP cannot have good things. And they protect themselves purposefully by putting in their cronies in as District Attorneys in the State and District Court judges. One way to do that is to let the Dems do a number on any GOP nominee that threatens the grift, the second is to simply use procedural matters like the idiotic and anti constitutional blue slip policy to deny the President the ability to appoint the district attorneys that they want. Blue slip was adopted by the Dems back in Woodrow Wilson's term to screen out any politician that wanted desegregate the South and yet Grassley views it as sacrosanct despite the wavering rule.

Then you have the evil hold system where one Senator can put a 'hold' on any or all nominees to prevent voting.

The US Senate is the architect of institutional corruption on a vast scale involving domestic and foreign affairs. Caligula's horse would be an improvement.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (E4rtv)

180 Vlad would set people up"

Heh.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

181 I think you can say Happy Easter Triduum!

They did the Washing of Feet last night at Mass. Beautiful.

Jesus, Our Teacher and Our Lord
Stooped to wash the feet of His disciples
And He told them, "This is an example"
"As I have done, so you must do"

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 08:36 AM (DgMqy)

182 TGIF, all!

>>Denaturalizing immigrant fraudsters like the aforementioned and please God BRO-FO OMAR and her ilk is one thing.


CHAIN Denaturalization and Deportation!
If one "anchor baby" can be used to bring in an entire family, then one "anchor criminal" (need better term) can be used to remove them.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:36 AM (Suwql)

183 I will admit abject frustration when they made Wild Wild West a movie and cast Will f*cking Smith as James West.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

184 Secretary of War Signs Memorandum to End Military Bases as Gun-Free Zones

Still never figured out why Hasan wasn't shot another 20 to 30 X.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (/+uur)

185 All you have to do is play along. OK?

Posted by: Braenyard
======
You left out if you don't play along, we will destroy you financially, socially, and politically so that you will never challenge us again.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (E4rtv)

186 Massie is Masshoe

He’s all in on “the remaining files will prove Trump raped farm animals and Melania is an illegal” or whatever the Reddit theory of the day is now.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (QZThv)

187 165 Star Trek was sold to the suits as “Wagon Train to the Stars”.
Posted by: Common Tater

Space Gunsmoke.

Lifted the characters whole, especially Doc, and explains why Roddenberry originally wanted to cast George Lindsey as Spock.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (Y8DZL)

188 "Since reaching a peak in October 2024, federal government employment is down by 355,000, or 11.8 percent."

Another million gone and we'll be making progress.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (DaYai)

189 177 Gene Roddenberry was a perv and a shyster; it's really what other people did with Star Trek that made it great.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (DaYai)

This. He came up with the idea but others breathed life into it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (bss/y)

190
Same reason a dog licks its balls
Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 08:35 AM (LVvlK)



Cleanliness?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

191
Still never figured out why Hasan wasn't shot another 20 to 30 X.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:37 AM (/+uur)



Bill Clinton.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

192 170 I really believe Epstein's Island was a honey pot for the Deep State to control its clients and that's what they're afraid of exposing.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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a

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (9L6d7)

193 Still never figured out why Hasan wasn't shot another 20 to 30 X.

John Wick heard about Kaya? Oh, wrong Hasan.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (QZThv)

194 Star Trek the Next Generation was some of the most idiotic shit I've seen. It should have been left alone as a pulp series in the form of a comic book.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 08:39 AM (UqSya)

195 The damage done by the 17th Amendment is incalculable

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:39 AM (DaYai)

196 192 170 I really believe Epstein's Island was a honey pot for the Deep State to control its clients and that's what they're afraid of exposing.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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All five eyes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:39 AM (9L6d7)

197 Very positive jobs report for March.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

198 I really believe Epstein's Island was a honey pot for the Deep State to control its clients and that's what they're afraid of exposing.

The control was the important part, not the sex. The real Epstein files are the CIA’s.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (QZThv)

199 Very positive jobs report for March.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (RIvkX)



So? Fuel is $5 a gallon and Trump gets 2 scoops!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

200 Vesta Louis, the sisters’ mother, told Politico that she believes her daughters are innocent stating, “We are a Christian family, we don’t deal with monkey business.”

“We deal with church and God and our jobs,” the mother said.

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (/+uur)

201 >>I will admit abject frustration when they made Wild Wild West a movie and cast Will f*cking Smith as James West.

Did you see me in Much Ado About Nuffin'?

Posted by: Denzel Washington at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (Y1sOo)

202 Our troll is disappointed Bondi did not prosecute a dead man, you guys!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (Suwql)

203 The Wild, Wild West had a better theme song than Star Trek.
Fight me.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

204 The FBI raided Epstein Island and took everything.

Where'd it go?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Why do we have such corrupt morons running this country?
Posted by: Sponge

Democrats have always been corrupt, it is the very DNA of the party. GOP is split between corrupticans and virtuous but the corrupticans always side with Democrats to keep government corruption going. That it the true RINO contigent--those that want to get generational wealth and power in return for caving to corrupt Democrats over and over again. Main exception since Reagan has been GOP RINOs favors tax cuts and massive deficit spending but with DoW increases. Democrats want more everything--taxes on normies, tax cuts for their peeps on weird shit like transing oneself, deficit spending out the wazoo, and staffing government offices with nepots, perverts, and evil bastards.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (E4rtv)

206 194 Star Trek the Next Generation was some of the most idiotic shit I've seen. It should have been left alone as a pulp series in the form of a comic book.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 08:39 AM (UqSya)

Well, the first season (and a lot of the second) was kind of more Roddenberry's Dream for how the show should be. The thing is, it sucked (not as bad as modern iterations.) He always decried how the network and others messed with his vision- but they reigned in and made stuff great from his concept in spite of him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (bss/y)

207 193 Still never figured out why Hasan wasn't shot another 20 to 30 X.

John Wick heard about Kaya? Oh, wrong Hasan.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:38 AM (QZThv)

Nidal in

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (/+uur)

208 So? Fuel is $5 a gallon and Trump gets 2 scoops!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)
====

*slurping ice cream*

What?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

209 I just saw a trailer for a new film from MGM. The roaring lion marquee is now a lioness. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (E2lD7)

210 I remember female conservative "pundits" swooning over Paul Ryan. He ran marathons, lifted weights and was a square-jawed, fearless budget hawk!
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:18 AM (E2lD7)


Lots of women swoon over an attractive male politician.

Rather like the guys who'll say things like, "Well, AOC is an idiot but she's got a nice rack." Or, "Nancy Mace is a loon, but she's got a nice rack."

It is what it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

211
CHAIN Denaturalization and Deportation!
If one "anchor baby" can be used to bring in an entire family, then one "anchor criminal" (need better term) can be used to remove them.
Posted by: Lizzy
---

I'm satisfied with the rate of illegals being deported.
Islam not being deported is unsatisfactory.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (9L6d7)

212 203 The Wild, Wild West had a better theme song than Star Trek.
Fight me.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

But did Wild, Wild West have theremin?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (bss/y)

213 Victor Tango Kilo

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

Every society struggles with corruption. Good Friday is part of the answer, but we have some deep issues in our human DNA.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

214 203 The Wild, Wild West had a better theme song than Star Trek.
Fight me.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

[Intro: Will Smith & Sisqo]
Mmmts
Uhh (Doo-doo-doo-doo)
Wicki-wild wild (Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo)
Wicki-wicki-wild
Wicki-wild
Wicki-wicki

[Verse 1: Will Smith]
Wild Wild West (Yeah)
Jim West, desperado
Rough rider, no you don't want nada
None of this, six-gunnin this, brother runnin this
Buffalo soldier, look it's like I told ya
Any damsel that's in distress
Be outta that dress when she meet Jim West

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:43 AM (/+uur)

215 >>The Wild, Wild West had a better theme song than Star Trek.
Fight me.


So did Hawaii 5-0.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:43 AM (Suwql)

216 209 I just saw a trailer for a new film from MGM. The roaring lion marquee is now a lioness. I'm not kidding.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:42 AM (E2lD7)

Fucking hell, these people.

They are so much parodies of themselves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:43 AM (bss/y)

217 I think Massie assumes there's Epstein dirt on his detractors and wants it exposed.

This issue is going to be a distraction for Congress until the entire thing's put to rest.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (AkEZC)

218 Who are they, and why should I care?
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:26 AM (XuXeR)


I guess you don't read the comments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)

219 Now I want spicy ramen noodles.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

220 I will admit abject frustration when they made Wild Wild West a movie and cast Will f*cking Smith as James West."

But there was Hayek.

No, the other Hayek.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

221 Massie is a complete douche tool...

Posted by: Boswell at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (j10i6)

222 I'll admit, because I have low standards, I would have given Yum Yum a couple of shots of Sriracha just to spice things up.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (UqSya)

223 Lol, no such thing as a "good conservative." Conservatism is a scam, and none of those people ever meant a word they said.

My hope is that MAGA breaks with these pigs after Trump is out of the White House and binding the two together, and that it becomes the nucleus of a new Party - a genuine populist/nationalist mass movement - and that the conservatives are utterly destroyed by it.

They must go. Preferably into panther pits.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (BI5O2)

224
I guess you don't read the comments.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (ExV1e)



Silly. That's the best part!!

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Breitbart at April 03, 2026 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

225 The Kentucky primary is May 19th. I hope and pray that Massie gets defeated.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

226 Panthers are black.

Isn't calling it "The Black Panther" redundant?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Over two-thirds of the French population say “anti-white racism” has become a significant problem in their country. According to a new survey conducted by the CSA (Institut d’Études), a prominent French research institute, 67 percent of respondents see discrimination against white people as a reality in modern France.

You sure a hell will not like the USA.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

228 I think Massie assumes there's Epstein dirt on his detractors and wants it exposed."

Nah. Masshole just wants to make noise.

"Hey, look at me"!!!!

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

229 219 Now I want spicy ramen noodles.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

That does sound good, but Keto.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (bss/y)

230 >>I will admit abject frustration when they made Wild Wild West a movie and cast Will f*cking Smith as James West."


Robert Conrad was perfect.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:47 AM (Suwql)

231 Over two-thirds of the French population say “anti-white racism” has become a significant problem in their country. According to a new survey conducted by the CSA (Institut d’Études), a prominent French research institute, 67 percent of respondents see discrimination against white people as a reality in modern France.



You imported 20% of your population from muslham counties. What did you THINK was going to happen?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

232 I guess you don't read the comments."

Comments, yes. Content... maybe.

And there's no general celebratory mood @ Bondi's departure...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

233 We need to dispose of the term "melting down" to describe the Left's endless conniptions. It's not really descriptive of rage and it's used up.

I suggest "Ashing", as in the android character Ash in "Alien" who goes berserk, spins, thrashes, electrically fritzes out, and froths a milky android juice from his android mouth while nearly killing Ripley.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (E2lD7)

234
Taking a Canadian along on a trip to Our Moon is like-

having to take your annoying, whiny little brother along with you on a cool camping trip with your friends.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)

235
That does sound good, but Keto.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (bss/y)



I don't have that problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

236 Good Wednesday was two days ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (52ERr)

237 Taking a Canadian along on a trip to Our Moon is like-

having to take your annoying, whiny little brother along with you on a cool camping trip with your friends.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)



I heard the broad broke the toilet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

238 225 The Kentucky primary is May 19th. I hope and pray that Massie gets defeated.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

Unfortunately, not in my district. I have Barr. And Rand Paul and Mitch the Bitch.

Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:49 AM (bss/y)

239 Trump Admin Successfully Denaturalizes Chinese Spies

I would not have even offered them a cig or blindfold

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 08:49 AM (/+uur)

240

Robert Conrad was perfect.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:47 AM (Suwql)



Agreed.


I'm still waiting for someone to remake Shaft and find some redheaded Irish guy to play the role.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

241 236 Good Wednesday was two days ago.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:48 AM (52ERr)

Holy Thursday was yesterday. Vigil is tomorrow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2026 08:49 AM (bss/y)

242 Gene Roddenberry cast Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, and Gates McFadden because he wanted a blond, a brunette, and a redhead.

Brannon Braga was banging 7 of 9. Rick Berman fired Terri Farrell because she wouldn't bang him.

Trek was better when creeps were running it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:49 AM (NtKIE)

243 Will Smith was no Robert Conrad or James West. Get off my lawn!

It was a nice concept but a horrible remake.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (UqSya)

244 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
=====
I thought it might be possible until I read all the Florida Grand Jury and a lot of the recently released documents. Basically, the billionaires and important politicos that Epstein mixed with have their own security teams to prevent honeypots. Rich people find themselves beset with con men, creeps, criminals, etc. so they hire former cops (see Trump with former NYPD detectives for example) to act as protectors.

I don't doubt that some dabbled with Epstein's whores whether underage or not (some were not underage), but his focus was mainly on moving money around in investments. The girls appeared a sideline to his business dealings which were extensive and not well reported by the press. And his first big investment job at Bear Stearns was related to the CIA's bank (BCCI). My guess is he moved money for the intel agencies to whitewash it, dabbled a bit as informant if his intel contacts needed some info (intel has long used criminals and sleazoids to get info on other bad guys) which in turn protected him, and used his whores for personal deviance and a lubricant to get people to give him information willingly. The tapes were insurance.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (E4rtv)

245 We don't even have scoopable gasoline here.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (52ERr)

246 Good Friday is a weird day you can't say "happy Good Friday"

anyway Happy Passover! I look forward to Easter and meditate today on the suffering of the Christ
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 08:27 AM (j+aD2)

Thank you. Another one that bothers me is "Happy Memorial Day".
Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 08:30 AM (LVvlK)


I used to be like that.

Look at it this way, Christ died that you might be saved. Arguably, the original Good Friday was the best day ever, albeit before you were born.

Ditto Memorial Day. Those people died for the nation, a regrettable honor that most Americans do not deserve, and because they did, you possess the little freedom which remains to us. Still more than what others have.

In both cases, be mindful of what was given but thankful and happy that it was.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)

247 android character Ash in "Alien" who goes berserk, spins, thrashes, electrically fritzes out, and froths a milky android juice from his android mouth while nearly killing Ripley."

"Oh no, not again"

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

248 Look at it this way, Christ died that you might be saved. Arguably, the original Good Friday was the best day ever, albeit before you were born.

Ditto Memorial Day. Those people died for the nation, a regrettable honor that most Americans do not deserve, and because they did, you possess the little freedom which remains to us. Still more than what others have.

In both cases, be mindful of what was given but thankful and happy that it was.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)



Well put.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

249 >>Taking a Canadian along on a trip to Our Moon is like-

having to take your annoying, whiny little brother along with you on a cool camping trip with your friends.


And taking devices loaded up with freakin' MS Outlook is like including a Walkman in your equipment bag.
Of course it malfunctioned!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 08:51 AM (Suwql)

250 The Canadian logged up the toilet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (52ERr)

251 No power. He's a private citizen with no power whatsoever and was largely a failed representative of his constituents. Who gives a f*ck what this asshole has to say about anything?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I fell for him in the beginning (no, not that whey).

But yeah. F*ck him.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (Fn30I)

252 About the Epstein files...

Everything could be released without any redactions and be available for download and the left will still insist that "DRUMPF IS HIDING SOMETHING!!ONEELVENTY!"

They don't care about the victims since they had it coming and none of them are willing to say Trump was a client.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (NR6c1)

253 I don't think anyone is cheering Pam Blondi's firing. She just wasn't ready to do what needs to be done.
Arrest anyone and everyone you can and let the "process" do the sorting out. Merrick and the J6 folks. Over 1500 people arrested for doing nothing wrong. Merrick would have arrested his own mother if he had one. Stop playing nice and spill some blood.

Posted by: Time For The Killing Floor at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (3vrM2)

254 So is tonight Good Saturday Eve?

Posted by: Is that how this works? at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

255 android character Ash in "Alien" who goes berserk, spins, thrashes, electrically fritzes out, and froths a milky android juice from his android mouth while nearly killing Ripley."

"Oh no, not again"
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:51 AM (XuXeR)



Hello! My Baby Hello! my Honey Hello! my ragtime gal!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

256 No, the other Hayek.
Posted by: man

A million of them coming across the border, no problemo.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 08:53 AM (Y8DZL)

257 So did Hawaii 5-0."

Can't dispute that. One of the very best "theme songs" ever...

Didn't someone (Rodenberry?) have lyrics for the Star Drek theme?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

258 Unfortunately, not in my district. I have Barr. And Rand Paul and Mitch the Bitch.

Fucking hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
======
Barr won't be in your district in 2027 as he is running for Senate nor Mitch be a senator past 2026. So that cuts down your load of carrying worthless politicians down.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:53 AM (E4rtv)

259 The Hawaii 5 0 theme was better than the show.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:54 AM (52ERr)

260
I fell for him in the beginning (no, not that whey).

But yeah. F*ck him.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (Fn30I)



I laughed at libtards that said he was a f*cking idiot moron.

I didn't think he was. Thought he was smart, articulate and strong on budgetary constraint.

Turns out he was an evil genius that f*cked us six ways to Sunday.

I'm still waiting for his bow hunting accident.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

261 So did Hawaii 5-0."

Can't dispute that. One of the very best "theme songs" ever...

Didn't someone (Rodenberry?) have lyrics for the Star Drek theme?
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)



Mission: Impossible

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

262 The Hawaii 5 0 theme was better than the show."

Book him, Dano...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

263 Trek was better when creeps were running it.

Heterosexual creeps. Got to be specific.

And since Westerns are a topic remember that Cenk Uigyher has said a few too many times that fucking horses should be legal.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)

264 When I think of TV Themes, The Rockford Files always comes to mind.

My Most Underrated TV Theme is Simon and Simon. Love that jam!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (DgMqy)

265 203 The Wild, Wild West had a better theme song than Star Trek.
Fight me.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)


An odd thing about TWWW: I believe every episode was named "The Night of the (fill in the blank)." And by my recollection, a lot of the scenes were at night or in relatively dark underground (studio sets) fortresses, dungeons, caverns, tunnels, or labs of the villain of the week. Outdoors/daytime scenes were filmed on studio lots and in studio Western towns, or were canned shots of the train, etc., used over and over again. Cost-efficient!

I loved watching TWWW during its prime time-run. But I find watching reruns nowadays a bore.

Posted by: Gref at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (5rh/l)

266 I will admit abject frustration when they made Wild Wild West a movie and cast Will f*cking Smith as James West.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)


He was the hot actor at the time. It was before everyone found out that his wife was fucking their son's best friend - to heal, and find herself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

267 Did she try jiggling it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (52ERr)

268
And since Westerns are a topic remember that Cenk Uigyher has said a few too many times that fucking horses should be legal.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)



Well, he's of Greek descent, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

269 And there's no general celebratory mood @ Bondi's departure...
Posted by: man
----

She was good meat and potatoes, better than any under Biden or Brak. Those sad eyes told the tale of long hard days and late nights. But she is no dragon slayer. Trump needs a dragon slayer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (9L6d7)

270 But there was Hayek.

No, the other Hayek.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:44 AM (XuXeR)

But seriously there's only one unless you're a fayg

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (mWRBW)

271 Wo Fat of Chinese Intelligence was a great character. If that show is on, I will watch it

Posted by: Jonah at April 03, 2026 08:57 AM (YCxFk)

272 When I think of TV Themes, The Rockford Files always comes to mind.

My Most Underrated TV Theme is Simon and Simon. Love that jam!
Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (DgMqy)



I'm glad they changed the original theme to Magnum PI.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

273 Mission: Impossible"

IIRC, the composer used the morse code for "MI" (2 dash, 2 dots) as inspiration...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:58 AM (XuXeR)

274 I really believe Epstein's Island was a honey pot for the Deep State to control its clients and that's what they're afraid of exposing.

While there was sex involved, definitely involving adult women, possibly involving children (other than the ones molested by Epstein), the Epstein thing was about secrets and money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

275 Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (E4rtv)
____________________

Not all of Epstein's clients were smart billionaires. A lot of them were dumb politicians.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 08:58 AM (NtKIE)

276 The Lone Ranger had a great theme music!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 08:58 AM (GD0B3)

277 Johnny Quest had the best theme song, with honorable mention to Rawhide and Maverick

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 08:59 AM (m1xvH)

278 After the Rev war loyalists were generally kicked out of the country.

And honestly, your average Pinky Ring kissing royal toady in 1781 shared more in common with George Washington then your average Somalian commie-crat shares with heritage Americans now

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

279 My Most Underrated TV Theme is Simon and Simon. Love that jam!
Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (DgMqy)

Secret Agent. Mannix (the early years, by the great Lalo Schifrin). Top Cat and Jonny Quest (by the great Hoyt Curtin).

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (E2lD7)

280 What are these "TV theme songs" of which you speak? - Gen Z

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (NtKIE)

281 61 Perhaps 1/3 of AGs are good men, 1/3 are mediocre, and the other 1/3 are evil, bad men?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 08:03 AM (qFwJc)


Maybe two independent axes. 1/4 are competent and ethical, 1/4 are well-intentioned blockheads, 1/4 are retarded psychopaths, and 1/4 are high-functioning monsters in human skin?

Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (Sy6m/)

282 In both cases, be mindful of what was given but thankful and happy that it was.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 08:50 AM (ExV1e)


I get it. Just a personal choice for me. Both days represent debts paid on my/our behalf. Can't bring myself to express "happy" wishes on either day. Thankful for sure.

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (LVvlK)

283 I’ve read somewhere the Lone Ranger producers used the William Tell overture only because it was in the public domain

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (m1xvH)

284 I believed Ryan when I barely knew him until one day - before he had any real power - when he pulled out his 20 point 10 year plan to balance the budget in 2020 or whatever and I thought: "yep, cocksucker".

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:00 AM (mWRBW)

285 Not all of Epstein's clients were smart billionaires. A lot of them were dumb politicians.

Don't forget all the academics.

I saw one email recently where some prof was trying to entice Epstein to show up at one of his events by mentioning how hot his RAs were.

In this case, young women of legal age at least but...that terrible behavior obviously.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

286 280 What are these "TV theme songs" of which you speak? - Gen Z


they have game songs

and tbh some shows. just shows you (and I!) don't know

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (j+aD2)

287 British Airways to equip all 300 of its fleet aircraft with Starlink over the next two years, allowing passengers to make/take phone calls, video chats and live streaming.

Oh, boy...

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (Y1sOo)

288 I also think it's time to stop using the term "National television."

It meant something back in the 19xxs, when broadcast TV dominated the media landscape. But today a goat herder standing in a windswept field in Azerbaijan with a Starlink dish can watch the same videos you watch while sitting in your comfortable Fios enabled suburban home, well... there's no such thing as "National television" anymore.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (2Ez/1)

289 CNN’s data guru says Trump’s approval rating is ‘as low as Death Valley’. "He's now at a term 2 low: -18 pts," Enten wrote on X. "Big reason why: Independents. Trump's at -45 pts. The worst for any prez at this point in term 2. Worse than Nixon (-36 pts) at the height of Watergate!"

“He was at plus six points [in January], then minus three points a year ago [in April], minus seven points nine months ago, minus ten points in October 2025. January 2026, -13 points. And now all the way down to -18 points. A term two low," he said.

Cool. So, Republicans will get on board with impeaching him now? No, they're asskissing little shit weasels? Remember, every day of this is sanctioned by the Republicans in office, they could end it whenever they want.

His staff shows him fake 95% approval polls. Wouldn’t be shocked if Fox News does private ego boost fake broadcasts just for him.

Trump is consistent. He has brought a wrecking ball to every thing he has ever been involved in. The people knew this and voted for him anyway. Twice.

This means he is going to resign, right? Say "Sorry about Project 2025" and repudiate all of it? Nah. Polls are meaningless

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (JCZqz)

290 ____________________

Not all of Epstein's clients were smart billionaires. A lot of them were dumb politicians.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
---

Don't they make a lovely couple?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (9L6d7)

291 Barney Miller had the best theme song.

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (LVvlK)

292 The Lone Ranger had a great theme music!"

Rossini takes a bow...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

293 I believed Ryan when I barely knew him until one day - before he had any real power - when he pulled out his 20 point 10 year plan to balance the budget in 2020 or whatever and I thought: "yep, cocksucker".

The 40 point plays are always a scam.

None of the on the bubble voters will EVER read them. You'll get a fraction of commit right leaning voters and some leftist opposition research types mining them for talking points.

And then, as you note, the GOPers don't even both trying to implement their plans...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (sKqQm)

294 Panthers are black.

Not all of them.

https://tinyurl.com/yww2zwh4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (ExV1e)

295 178,000 jobs added last month. Much better than expected.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

296 Arrest anyone and everyone you can and let the "process" do the sorting out. Merrick and the J6 folks. Over 1500 people arrested for doing nothing wrong. Merrick would have arrested his own mother if he had one. Stop playing nice and spill some blood.
Posted by: Time For The Killing Floor
=====
Problem is most 'crimes' are not on videotape like Jan6 nor are in the rotten borough of DC which is refusing to allow Democrats to be convicted.

It is far more difficult to bring federal cases than most people think based on Jan 6 because you have to have federal grand juries willing to indict.

Most of the charges in DC also were a result of defendants initially being arrested by information (aka not a grand jury) for offenses with less than a year and then getting upgraded by grand jury superceding indictments in a lot of cases. And that allowed Garland's henchmen to stack the DC and federal prisons with poor Jan 6ers waiting for a trial. Many then had to plead out as the courts deliberately delayed and stalled trial dates, etc.

DC has become a rotten jurisdiction that protects Democrats and persecutes GOP and other enemies of the permanent state. Spreading to MD and VA too now

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:03 AM (E4rtv)

297
"Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini for the gold.

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 09:03 AM (Y8DZL)

298 Best theme song was Mary Tyler Moore Covered by Husker Du

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

299 I didn't know Mozart did tv theme songs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 09:04 AM (52ERr)

300 Didn't someone (Rodenberry?) have lyrics for the Star Drek theme?
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

You ever tried singing while playing the Theremin?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 09:04 AM (/+uur)

301 295 178,000 jobs added last month. Much better than expected.


AND fewer govt "jobs"!!!

it is excellent news

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 09:04 AM (j+aD2)

302 "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini for the gold."

John Williams (yeah, that John Williams) played piano for that...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

303 So one thing I hope Trump has his eyes on...in about 3 months or so LIVs and low propensity voters in general are going to decide if they will vote and for who.

This will mostly be decided based on the perceived state of the economy.

Anything that might have a short term down turn he needs to do should happen NOW (which is I assume why the Iran and VZ stuff recently happened). The goal moving forward has to be laser focused on employment numbers, energy costs, and inflation

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

304 Ummm... The Simon and Simon Theme has cowbell.

ZING

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (DgMqy)

305 Good Friday is good because "by His Passion and Crucifixion," our sins can be washed away.

The gates of Heaven are now open.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (qFwJc)

306 I didn't know Mozart did tv theme songs."

Rock me Amadeus!

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

307 I have to vote for the Mission Impossible theme, just because it was in 5/4 time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (0U5gm)

308 And there's no general celebratory mood @ Bondi's departure...
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 08:47 AM (XuXeR)


There's a couple dozen regular commentors who've been calling for her to go since she was nominated and who, yesterday, were all excited over the prospect that some new person would go in an we'd be getting prosecutions, and armed raids, and multiple Democrat Senators gunned down in desperate shootouts with law enforcement because a real lawman was gonna be the figurehead at the top of the DOJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

309 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (mWRBW)

310 Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Great themes.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 09:06 AM (NtKIE)

311 The closing theme for Gunsmoke.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 03, 2026 09:06 AM (XvL8K)

312 Barney Miller had the best theme song.

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM (LVvlK)



It's long been rumored that original Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was so inspired by that theme, he HAD to learn to play the bass.

And if you dig through the Spmonge folder, you have it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

313 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

You are generalizing. A lot of people that couldn't stand Bondo (she's got electrolytes) know that we're not getting anyone based past Congress.

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (mWRBW)

314 There's a couple dozen regular commentors..."

Yeah, no. Keep plucking that chicken tho, ok?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (XuXeR)

315 Pam's white knight seems perturbed this morning.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (Y1sOo)

316 I have thought Bondi was a poor choice for quite a while. I think Trump was trying to prod her for some time and it just didn't work.


Yes confirmation hearing will be brutal but it could also me leveraged as a push to get R voters to the polls in Nov.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

317 291 Barney Miller had the best theme song.
Posted by: Doof
--

Every season it was the same song but different.
A different solo or something. It was like a live band playing the same song but never playing it exactly the same.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (9L6d7)

318 > British Airways to equip all 300 of its fleet aircraft with Starlink over the next two years, allowing passengers to make/take phone calls, video chats and live streaming.
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I think there's an American airline that prohibits music to be played unless the user has ear buds or headphones. There are reports of people getting pretty upset with the type of music they were being exposed to.

Loudly exposed to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (AkEZC)

319 I'm over-commenting, but I have the WKRP In Cincinnati as my phone alarm, too. DUNK

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (DgMqy)

320 "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini for the gold.
Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 09:03 AM (Y8DZL)



Also the theme for the video game Spy Hunter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

321 Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...

Posted by: Like Robinson Crusoe at April 03, 2026 09:08 AM (2Ez/1)

322 British Airways to equip all 300 of its fleet aircraft with Starlink over the next two years, allowing passengers to make/take phone calls, video chats and live streaming.

Oh, boy...

Posted by: one hour sober



I could go to the movie theater for that experience, and wouldn't be stuck there for eight hours.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 03, 2026 09:08 AM (0U5gm)

323 I have to vote for the Mission Impossible theme, just because it was in 5/4 time."

That they bastardized for the mooovies. Shame!

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

324 Warship Sunk by Admiral Nelson in 1801 Rediscovered by Archaeologists
________
There were two battles of Copenhagen, 1801 and 1807. Not clear the author of the article realizes that. It was the 2nd that became a big deal to the Danes.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 09:08 AM (AlhUl)

325 I really like the Community theme, which to be fair is just a song by The 88 not written for the show

but wow

what a song

it's CRAZY I'm obsessed with it

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (j+aD2)

326 Paul A. Szypula
@Bubblebathgirl

Anti-ICE OBGYN with TDS and crazy eyes goes up to ICE agents at JFK and calls them “racist pigs.”

Hey name is Jennifer Hewson Lincoln and she works for Kaiser Permanente in Oregon.
Do they condone her behavior?

What about her patients?
(drjenniferlincoln on TT)

https://tinyurl.com/2y4c6t6y

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

327
178,000 jobs added last month. Much better than expected.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:02 AM


everyone's getting a job

except me

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (tljrc)

328 He has brought a wrecking ball to every thing he has ever been involved in. The people knew this and voted for him anyway. Twice.

I love how they say things like that as if they were negative statements.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (NR6c1)

329 There are reports of people getting pretty upset with the type of music they were being exposed to.

Loudly exposed to."

Been to a beach the past ... three or four years? Bluetooth speakers everywhere.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

330 He has brought a wrecking ball to every thing he has ever been involved in. The people knew this and voted for him anyway. Twice.
---------

#DrainTheSwamp

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:10 AM (mWRBW)

331 Not all of Epstein's clients were smart billionaires. A lot of them were dumb politicians.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
===
Relatively few politicians went to the Island from flight logs. Mostly business men and others that Epstein wanted to cultivate like scientists (Stephen Hawking for example). Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Ehud Barak, and some Gulf staters were outnumbered by the financiers and scientists.

Epstein probably had some at his NY home but then again, he purposefully cruised with Ghislaine to major events to photobomb himself with prominent people.

You can read the documents yourself but never figure you get from the media what is in them. And while I think Epstein certainly had intel and law enforcement connections, I think he was more an informant like Whitey Bulger than an agent for anyone. There is a huge floating group of people that intel can tap for specific information that are not agents nor even handlers. If you read the JFK or RFK files, you will see how it works. The thing is most people are bored with financial and regular information peddling and want to jump to the sex because well it is sex and some underaged depravity as well.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:10 AM (E4rtv)

332 everyone's getting a job

except me
Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 09:09 AM (tljrc)



Ooh wow. That sucks, man. Sorry to hear that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

333 Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Jed...

Posted by: Black gold. Texas tea. at April 03, 2026 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)

334 My favorite TV show theme song can beat up your favorite TV show theme song

sidenote: there have been many arrangements of the Hawaii 5-O theme

I like The Ventures best

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 09:11 AM (ZxPkt)

335 There were two battles of Copenhagen"

Fine or Long cut?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)

336 It's long been rumored that original Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was so inspired by that theme, he HAD to learn to play the bass.

And if you dig through the Spmonge folder, you have it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)


Haha! That folder remains misspelled and shall be that way forever!!

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (LVvlK)

337 So one thing I hope Trump has his eyes on...in about 3 months or so LIVs and low propensity voters in general are going to decide if they will vote and for who.

That's why I shared the poll news Reddit is crowing about. The Iran War didn't give the typical military poll bump, and the gas price spike is very apparent and unpopular. Trump needs to quickly turn things around and show the economy is better than it was under Biden, or midterms will be a bloodbath.

Sure, Dems poll terribly too, but they're the ones out of power, so Republicans will bear the brunt of protest "throw the bums out" votes if LIVs think things are going poorly.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (JCZqz)

338 I think Maverick and Rawhide had the best lyrics. They evoked the mythos of the story beyond the story's limitations.

I liked the variations of Mannix, with three different sections, a hard-hitting percussive intro, shifting to jazz, and then to an orchestral soar before closing out again with the percussions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (E2lD7)

339 If you read the JFK or RFK files, you will see how it works. The thing is most people are bored with financial and regular information peddling and want to jump to the sex because well it is sex and some underaged depravity as well.

IIRC the charges against Prince Andrew aren't for having sex with underage girls but for sharing information with China right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

340 Arrest anyone and everyone you can and let the "process" do the sorting out. Merrick and the J6 folks. Over 1500 people arrested for doing nothing wrong. Merrick would have arrested his own mother if he had one. Stop playing nice and spill some blood.
Posted by: Time For The Killing Floor at April 03, 2026 08:52 AM (3vrM2)


Except, as has been pointed out, she couldn't do that.

First of all, the AG doesn't arrest people, the FBI or local law enforcement do. The FBI, which still hasn't been completely purged of traitors, or local law enforcement, which won't work with the Trump Administration.

In order to arrest someone, you need a warrant. Either a warrant signed by a judge, no problem there, the federal judiciary is falling all over themselves to accommodate the Trump Administration, or one issued by a Grand Jury. A Grand Jury convened and addressed by holdover career lawyers who were in place during the Biden Administration because the Senate won't confirm Trump's appointees.

Garland was dealing with 'crimes' committed in DC. With DC judges and DC juries. That's why he could do what he did with the J6 people. We do not have the luxury.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

341
Haha! That folder remains misspelled and shall be that way forever!!
Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (LVvlK)



As it should! Drunken mishaps should ALWAYS remain in tact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

342 Theme from M Squad.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (9L6d7)

343 Swalwell's fiscal irresponsibility and an intern harassment claim raise questions about his fitness for office
________
Don't they show he's a perfect fit for CA?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (AlhUl)

344 I'm over-commenting, but I have the WKRP In Cincinnati as my phone alarm, too. DUNK
Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 03, 2026 09:07 AM (DgMqy)


The closing credits song for WKRP is an absolute banger! It has unintelligible made up lyrics on purpose.

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (LVvlK)

345 IIRC the charges against Prince Andrew aren't for having sex with underage girls but for sharing information with China right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)



Well, British Royalty, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

346 here

https://youtu.be/TJ3hv9a3tgU

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (ZxPkt)

347 NewsRadio. If you got on an elevator and that shit was playing you would never want to leave

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (mWRBW)

348 sidenote: there have been many arrangements of the Hawaii 5-O theme

I like The Ventures best
Posted by: Don Black
_________

Arthur Lyman's is pretty good too.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (XvL8K)

349 And there's Uncle Joe, he's a-moving kind of slow...

Posted by: At the junction at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (2Ez/1)

350 And since Westerns are a topic remember that Cenk Uigyher has said a few too many times that fucking horses should be legal.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)


Well, he's of Greek descent, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)


I'd have assumed Russian.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

351 Garland was dealing with 'crimes' committed in DC. With DC judges and DC juries. That's why he could do what he did with the J6 people. We do not have the luxury.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
---

Just like them.
Make it and take it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:15 AM (9L6d7)

352 Re Louis sisters NYC:
former BHRAGS executive director Roberto Samedy.

Baron Samedi was the voodoo Bond villain in Live and Let Die.
Samedi means "Saturday." I'll bet this guy is no Geoffrey Holder.
"Goin' to be a beautiful day, boss. A ba-yoo-tee-ful day."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 03, 2026 09:15 AM (zdLoL)

353 Haha! That folder remains misspelled and shall be that way forever!!
Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:12 AM (LVvlK)


As it should! Drunken mishaps should ALWAYS remain in tact.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)


Even those that lead to violating Rule #1?

Posted by: Doof at April 03, 2026 09:16 AM (LVvlK)

354 Make it and take it.
That's the only way you kill the dragon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:16 AM (9L6d7)

355 Don't forget all the academics.

I saw one email recently where some prof was trying to entice Epstein to show up at one of his events by mentioning how hot his RAs were.

In this case, young women of legal age at least but...that terrible behavior obviously.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)


Leftist men see women as meat. Nothing more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

356 I like The Ventures best"

Maybe the best...ever.

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

357 "everyone's getting a job

except me
Posted by: AltonJackson'

You can have mine. I'm fed up with this crap.

Posted by: fd at April 03, 2026 09:17 AM (qjK5t)

358 I'd have assumed Russian."

That's great, Catherine...

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:17 AM (XuXeR)

359 And since Westerns are a topic remember that Cenk Uigyher has said a few too many times that fucking horses should be legal.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 03, 2026 08:55 AM (QZThv)


Well, he's of Greek descent, so.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)


you crazy, he is a dammed Turk!

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)

360 here

https://youtu.be/TJ3hv9a3tgU
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 09:14 AM (ZxPkt)



The Ventures had one of the best drummers ever.

NO ONE can play Wipe Out like that cat.......

https://youtu.be/3bKG0p6Tv9Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

361
Worst: "The Donna Reed Show"

Posted by: Auspex at April 03, 2026 09:18 AM (Y8DZL)

362 I wanted to make the first few notes from the A-Team theme as my phone's sound when I get a text, but the Samsung phone won't let me

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 09:18 AM (ZxPkt)

363 Well, he's of Greek descent, so.......

Cenk Uygur a Greek? Oh fucking really?
Do yourself a favor and stay inside the gates. Good God a'mighty.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (zdLoL)

364 277 Johnny Quest had the best theme song, with honorable mention to Rawhide and Maverick
----------------
Route 66 had the best theme song. The show sucked, though.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (n17eQ)

365

you crazy, he is a dammed Turk!
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:17 AM (GD0B3)



Certified, bonefied....whatever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

366 361
Worst: "The Donna Reed Show"
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I would have fucked her.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (n17eQ)

367 Chunky Yogurt is a (paid) Jihadi propagandist and booster, Islamic regime mouthpiece. He's been really spitting nails since the Iran ops began.

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (GD0B3)

368 > Garland was dealing with 'crimes' committed in DC. With DC judges and DC juries. That's why he could do what he did with the J6 people. We do not have the luxury.
----------
The conspiracy to remove Trump from office the first time he was elected wasn't strictly hatched in a D.C. basement. I think it was a national plot. Those involved traveled to other states and probably discussed what they were doing with other conspirators.

A trial could theoretically held anywhere one of them traveled. Not "just" inside the Beltway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (AkEZC)

369 >>The Lone Ranger had a great theme music!


How could you Tell?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (Suwql)

370 The Demise of Trial by Jury
________
Makes the usual error of saying it started with Magna Carta. Really, it predated it. MC only promised it as a guarantee. Back when I was studying it, it wasn't clear exactly where it came from. Not the Anglo Saxons. Maybe the Danes.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (AlhUl)

371 IIRC the charges against Prince Andrew aren't for having sex with underage girls but for sharing information with China right?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)


I dunno about the China part but, yes, sharing financial secrets... but everyone stops reading at "discovered in the Epstein Files".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

372
Cenk Uygur a Greek? Oh fucking really?
Do yourself a favor and stay inside the gates. Good God a'mighty.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (zdLoL)




Calm down......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

373 Home Office
@ukhomeoffice

Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime.

By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.

9:20 AM · Mar 31, 2026 7.1M Views

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

374 Daily Mail-

“Iran puts BOUNTY on American pilots as regime airs chilling footage claiming it shot down US jet
Iranian state media has urged civilians to capture American pilots after the regime claimed it shot down a US fighter jet.
Iranian state media has urged civilians to capture American pilots after the regime claimed it shot down a US fighter jet.
The Iranian state-run Mehr News agency aired footage on Friday of a female anchor calling on civilians to help capture pilots of an American F-15E Strike Eagle that the regime says was allegedly shot down over Southern Iran.”

Excerpt From
“Iran puts BOUNTY on American pilots as regime airs chilling footage claiming it shot down US jet”

https://apple.news/AsUyH1V82R7S090Mbt6yNUQ

Posted by: redridinghood at April 03, 2026 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

375 >>Well, he's of Greek descent, so.......

>>Cenk Uygur a Greek? Oh fucking really?
Do yourself a favor and stay inside the gates. Good God a'mighty.


That he uses 'The Young Turks' as his show name unironically is insane. Why not the Hitler Youth or the Brownshirts?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:23 AM (Suwql)

376 Simon & Simon theme song.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 03, 2026 09:23 AM (wVcYX)

377 What's neat about the Ventures' cover of Hawaii 5-O is, no horns

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 09:23 AM (ZxPkt)

378 A trial could theoretically held anywhere one of them traveled. Not "just" inside the Beltway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 03, 2026 09:20 AM (AkEZC)


And all it requires is for the judiciary to sign off on that. No problem at all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

379 >>Cenk Uygur a Greek? Oh fucking really?
Do yourself a favor and stay inside the gates. Good God a'mighty.

Greek? He's Uruk-hai.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 09:24 AM (E2lD7)

380 When the shirts are brown
And the boots are black....

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)

381 as my phone's sound when I get a text, but the Samsung phone won't let me"

Really? 'Cause I have my own ringtone... 22 Ultra phone

*shuffles off to find fone*

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

382 Cenk Uygur a Greek? Oh fucking really?
Do yourself a favor and stay inside the gates. Good God a'mighty.

Greek? He's Uruk-hai.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 09:24 AM (E2lD7)



But seriously. Who gives a rats ass where that retard originated.

Geez.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

383 380 When the shirts are brown
And the boots are black....
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:24 AM (GD0B3)

And the eyes are cold and the hearts are stone.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (E2lD7)

384 >>In this case, young women of legal age at least but...that terrible behavior obviously.

He was pimping them out.
People knew Epstein was a perv.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (Suwql)

385 Maybe the Danes.
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The Danes/Vikings were upfront about the law. You were either in the law or out of the law. Every new King would inform the people what was and was not in the law. If you didn't meet this threshold you were immediately an outlaw. These announcements often took many hours to cover. Many outlaws went a Viking after these announcements. This means, leave and find somewhere else to be.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (n17eQ)

386 Posted by: 18-1
=====
Sharing key British insider information about government financing to Epstein and others. The sort of information that moves markets if you get it before the public does. Randy Andy required the Thailand British Embassy employees to get a bunch of whores together for him for his entertainment as well.

But, one thing is that MI-5 is tasked with and even MI-6 to some degree is to protect the royal family. So undoubtedly Andy's personal security team knew all about Epstein and okayed him romping with the underage Giuffre regardless. My guess is because Ghislaine undoubtedly had daddy's contacts in the British security services and possibly Mossad as well.

But the pathetic emails from people like Lawrence Summers on how to get some woman to have sex with him (he was married at the time) or Ehud Barak's similar clueless texts does not show Epstein as a honeypot blackmailer (those blackmailed aren't willingly friendly in texts nor request relationship advice from their blackmailers fwiw), don't show an intel operative but someone that is Mr Fixit so that he has access to the highest SES and can drop names for his own ends.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (E4rtv)

387
all this talk about theme songs and no one has mentioned Miami Vice?

Posted by: Jan Hammer at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (tljrc)

388 The M*A*S*H* theme song had a great melody but screwy lyrics.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

389 all this talk about theme songs and no one has mentioned Miami Vice?"

Youngsters....

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (XuXeR)

390 all this talk about theme songs and no one has mentioned Miami Vice?
Posted by: Jan Hammer at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (tljrc)



T'was a good one, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

391 Newsradio had a great them, and possibly the best cast on sitcom history.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (NtKIE)

392 But seriously. Who gives a rats ass where that retard originated.

Geez.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

because you are on a political site and kinda expected to know why that calling a Jihadi Turk a Greek would be a Big Deal

Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)

393 You Big Dummies!

Posted by: Sanford & Son Theme Song at April 03, 2026 09:28 AM (Dv3i1)

394 389 all this talk about theme songs and no one has mentioned Miami Vice?"

Youngsters....
Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (XuXeR)

Airwolf theme

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 09:28 AM (FtULh)

395 The M*A*S*H* theme song had a great melody but screwy lyrics.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)



Tis why they went with the instrumental for the TV show.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

396 because you are on a political site"

"Smart Military Blog"

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

397
because you are on a political site and kinda expected to know why that calling a Jihadi Turk a Greek would be a Big Deal
Posted by: runner at April 03, 2026 09:27 AM (GD0B3)



I really don't care. He's an obnoxious anti-American prick, so that's pretty much the standard I go by.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

398 They're mysterious and spooky...

Posted by: Addams at April 03, 2026 09:29 AM (2Ez/1)

399 Beverly Hillbillies. Obviously.

"Show 'em the intro, Earl"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 03, 2026 09:30 AM (B+gJG)

400 395 The M*A*S*H* theme song had a great melody but screwy lyrics.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 03, 2026 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)

Could be the theme song for Canada... The suicide part...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 03, 2026 09:30 AM (7U91U)

401 The Munster's and The Monkees had the best show vehicles.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 03, 2026 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

402 ART.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

403 He was pimping them out.
People knew Epstein was a perv.
Posted by: Lizzy

Undoubtedly and this makes the honeypot hypothesis hard to sustain after his Palm Beach convictions. Billionaires have the money to hire what they want without dealing with Epstein and worrying about him dangling it over them. For Epstein then, it makes sense for him to use them as alluded to in Leon Black emails, as a subtle reminder not to mess with him (insurance from being prosecuted). Wexner, for example, severed relations with him after catching Epstein stealing from him (his wife took over some of the finances and discovered it).

I think Epstein gathered info for financial dealings as much as anything and the informant issue was to ensure being protected. For example, his friendship with Plaskett or Richardson can be explained by where his operations were located. With Clinton, for prestige. But Matt Groening on Air Epstein? has to be for name dropping and perhaps a financial client--certainly not actionable intelligence.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (E4rtv)

404 Been to a beach the past ... three or four years? Bluetooth speakers everywhere.

At least Carnival Cruise put an end to that behavior.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 09:32 AM (NR6c1)

405 Epstein wasn't murdered in prison because he was doing bookkeeping for the Deep State.

The flaw in Whig's argument is all that we know about Epstein is the information the Deep State has released about Epstein.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 09:33 AM (NtKIE)

406 Could be the theme song for Canada... The suicide part...
______

Suicide is painful..... so that's whey we give you drugs to paralyze you so the witnesses have no idea how much pain you are in. We still need to you in the operating room to remove your organs while you are still alive so we can get max value for our product!

Posted by: Canada MAID at April 03, 2026 09:33 AM (Dv3i1)

407 Jihadi Turk a Greek would be a Big Deal
Posted by: runner
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Funny thing about that. Genetically, it became a massive upset to the Turkish public recently when genealogy DNA revealed most of the Turkish DNA was actually Greek with little DNA residue of the original Turks from steppes.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:34 AM (E4rtv)

408 I don't think Epstein being a status seeking social climber necessarily contradicts the idea he was running a honeypot operation. It seems like a rather ingenious cover, of you think about it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (NtKIE)

409 Cenk named his show after a movement that carried out the Armenian *Christian* genocide.

Again, it is insane he named his show that, and that our alleged culturally aware, oh-so quick to offend MSM did not notice and/or care.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (Suwql)

410 I will watch The Passion of the Christ tonight. It always hurts me deeply as I realize I am not worthy of his sacrifice. I am a sinner and try hard to repent. I pray I will see Heaven when the time comes.

Posted by: Uncle Slayton at April 03, 2026 09:37 AM (pWyh/)

411 Ask yourself what Trump is up to while he has the entire world thinking he's messed up in Iran......

...

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:38 AM (mWRBW)

412 from MS Now:

Chris Hayes: The negotiation didn't have a path to citizenship. It was entirely on their terms in order to get Ukraine funding.

Chris Murphy: Right.

Chris Hayes: Well, I mean, Chris, that's been a failed play for 20 years.

Chris Murphy: So, you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe. Uh, and
it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most,
the undocumented Americans that are in this country.

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

413 The flaw in Whig's argument is all that we know about Epstein is the information the Deep State has released about Epstein.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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And the flaw to yours is that no evidence is simply that. It is not necessarily evidence of a conspiracy especially of the massive sex pot kompromat of all DC scheme.

Same with a lot of JFK and RFK conspiracies. A huge mass of files were released, and yet most of the prominent conspiracy theories were simply not supported there. It helps to have read up on exactly what ops that intel agencies have actually done in the past to know what is likely or not in the present.

Look up Codename Cynthia for a real life British honey pot. And yet, the blackmail was not the crude kompromat but rather getting the mark emotionally involved with the woman so that they did it for her, not because they were threatened with exposure so much.

TV and movies do little to actual shed light on intel ops. It takes wading through boring documents just like any search for financial crimes does. But I can see what CIA directors did not want the RFK or JFK files released. It shows intel collection and narrative building.

Posted by: whig at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (E4rtv)

414 Again, it is insane he named his show that, and that our alleged culturally aware, oh-so quick to offend MSM did not notice and/or care.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:35 AM (Suwql)

He is the true face of the Left

Posted by: ... at April 03, 2026 09:41 AM (mWRBW)

415 it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most,
the undocumented Americans that are in this country.


Welcome to another exciting episode of "What if it was a Republican Saying This?"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 09:43 AM (NR6c1)

416 >>He is the true face of the Left


Indeed.
Tells us right up front he hates us and wants us dead.
I can't understand why anyone takes him seriously. Like, hey, the genocide fanboy foreigner made a good point, you guys. . . uh, OK? And?

At least his creepy nephew(?) Hasan Piker has gone full mask off, openly calling for revolution.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 03, 2026 09:46 AM (Suwql)

417 A trial could theoretically held anywhere one of them traveled. Not "just" inside the Beltway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Texas

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 09:47 AM (9L6d7)

418 I did it all for the nookie

Posted by: fred durst at April 03, 2026 09:49 AM (LOZbR)

419 denaturalizing...

Anyone remember reading 'Man without a country?' IIRC
He was put on a boat and never allowed to reach shore again.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 03, 2026 10:00 AM (RaGhm)

420 I really don't care. Posted by: Sponge

It really shows, too. Why not lick that shit off your lip?
You'll care when you run out of spare periods for your long ellipses..................................
Keep fucking cancer and you'll get it in the ass. You're in a bubble here, under a rock. You would not survive in the real world.
Calm that down.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 03, 2026 10:13 AM (zdLoL)

421 405 Epstein wasn't murdered in prison because he was doing bookkeeping for the Deep State.

The flaw in Whig's argument is all that we know about Epstein is the information the Deep State has released about Epstein.

WRONG!. Bondi had one and only one job, Indict Brennan. If he didn't know what was going on, he certainly was not very intelligent.

The Three Specific Emails (JPMorgan/Epstein Context)

The "Birthday Book" Outreach (2011): The email outlines how the bank could use Epstein's

The "Wall of Cash" Email (2013):
An internal JPMorgan email discussing Epstein as a "top-tier referral source"

The "Wall of Cash" Email (2013):
An internal JPMorgan email discussing Epstein as a "top-tier referral source" for the bank's "Wall of Cash" program. The email allegedly notes that Epstein was a primary bridge to international dignitaries

It is only too obvious who is culpable and why they are going to get away with it. DOJ identified 25 (not 19!) they've made a deal with.

TRUMP needs to nullify that deal so that America250 can go beyond this, it will reveal that Trump reported Epstein after he was outbid on a property.

Brennan will rat out the others to save his own lousy hide.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 03, 2026 10:29 AM (8rrR6)

422 “Should Texas fund Muslim Education?” The headline says.

I have zero easy answers. How to we retain the First Amendment while dealing with legitimate dangers? It’s a bitch. Not all Muslims are terrorists; but al, the terrorists have been Muslim.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (E6xSb)

423 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J. 🙏

"The Swalwells' income puts them in the top 5% of households in Washington, D.C., where the couple owns a $1.2 million home, in addition to the congressman renting a room in Livermore, Calif., owned by another family."

Baffled how Swalwell is running for Governor of California in 2026, despite renting a single room in a Livermore, CA home, and his campaign and supporters are able to argue this arrangement fulfills the legal residency requirements.
(Oh, the Courts, right?)

Reportedly, Swalwell and his landlord have filed sworn declarations stating that he has rented a room in a Livermore home owned by a family of three since 2017. He maintains his voter registration and CA driver's license at this address, which he calls a "vacation bedroom" where he keeps personal items when visiting his district. (AI)

No, I'm wrong. The Dems took over the local county council & other key offices a handful of years ago. For some who 'won' in the 'historic election,' having in-laws & other relatives who, for decades, clearly fulfilled residential requirements permitted those outsiders to also claim legal residency and run for office.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

424 Note that prior, February 2018, the county had combined (redistricted) with parts of the city to form the new Congressional District. A Republican stronghold for over a century, control shifted.

Then in November 2019, Democrats achieved a "clean sweep" of the County Council and key row offices, some by employing interesting residency tactics.

Would the SAVE Act also put a kink in such political mobility tactics for some office seekers? 🤷‍♀️
---
Good weekend! 🤗

Happy Easter, Western Christians!

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 03, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

425 I like Hegseth a lot and he's done awesome as SecDef, but to imagine he's a legit candidate for national office is DELUSIONAL.

Posted by: deadrody at April 03, 2026 10:52 AM (qf6NU)

426 For decades, the Chi-Coms in particular have been actively promoting so-called "birth tourism" sending pregnant Chinese women to America for the specific purpose of giving birth here so that their little bastards can become automatic citizens and then ultimately Red Chinese agents, actively working to undermine us from within via espionage/sabotage as and when directed or merely to vote en masse as a bloc to influence our elections by putting in office leftist traitors.

Yes, the Chinese know how to play the long game, but sometimes they get impatient.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 03, 2026 11:23 AM (ynpvh)

427 I've been willing to cut Bondi some slack in her lack of prosecutions because she isn't a Democrat. We've seen time and time again how folks sporting a "D" after their name can get into any court they choose to, get heard on any topic they care to raise, and secure injunctions for the asking. Meanwhile, with an "R" it is nearly impossible to get into court (lack of standing) before an impartial judge to get your testimony heard.

She has to know, as do we all, that no matter what the GOP brings, assuming it can even get it into a court, it will be knee-jerk ruled against, and must ALWAYS be ready to taken to appeal. Multiple times.

So, yeah, I cut her some slack in having so few prosecutions in this first Year of Trump. She has other problems, for which she should be dismissed, but could any Trump nominee have done better in securing prosecutions?

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 03, 2026 11:24 AM (bufu1)

Daily Tech News 3 April 2026

Top Story

  • houston@nasa.gov, we have a problem. (Tom's Hardware)

    The crew of the Artemis II mission - basically retreading the path of Apollo 10, 97 years ago - ran into an issue that didn't happen last time: The spacecraft's computer has two instances of Microsoft Outlook running, and neither one works.

    At least that's better than unidentified floating poop (though we may yet come to that) or a Main B Bus Undervolt.


  • Speaking of things not working those new LG-made 1Hz laptop display panels have been put to the test and they don't. Don't not work, that is. They work exceptionally well. (Tom's Hardware)

    These displays are designed to automatically lower the refresh rate to as little as 1Hz (from a maximum of 120Hz) when the user is looking at a static screen, since the constant refresh cycle is a major power draw.

    Tested in Dell's latest XPS 14 model (which I think is the first laptop shipping with these panels) a battery life test simulating simple web browsing with the screen brightness set to 150 nits saw the laptop lasting 43 hours. That's three times longer than Apple's M5 MacBook Air running with the same settings.

    Apple's CPUs are more power-efficient than Intel's so heaver workloads handed the win to the Air, but the new display panel certainly proved itself.

Tech News


Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: No, Houston, the poop is not floating. It's worse than that.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM




Comments

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1 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at April 03, 2026 04:00 AM (lJ0H4)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:03 AM (Ia/+0)

3 No reason to get up this morning yet

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

4 w00t

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:05 AM (fNISR)

5
Audio of the floating turd incident with Apollo 10:

https://is.gd/qRAIgA

That is comedy gold right there. I always forget there were actually two floating turds. They noticed one, then a while later, another one popped up. Cernan said....well I won't spoil it. It's comedy gold.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

6
The Apollo solid waste collection system consisted of a plastic bag you taped to your butt.

And yes, there were some diarrhea incidents with the Apollo missions as well. And it went just about like you might expect. They didn't talk about that too much at the time, but it happened. And yes, it went everywhere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:12 AM (w6EFb)

7 >>>Houston agreed to remote in to take a look at the issue.

All kinds of shenanigans!

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:17 AM (fNISR)

8 >>>Disclaimer: No, Houston, the poop is not floating. It's worse than that.

uh-oh

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:21 AM (fNISR)

9
It was Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 (LEO test of CSM-LM docking and operations). who famously said there's nothing so beautiful as a urine dump at sunset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 04:25 AM (w6EFb)

10 Tons of fun on ace's De Niro thread (Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro) where publius and Oldcat (maybe others) chimed in knowledgeably about Space. Highly recommended.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:29 AM (fNISR)

11 One reason I never wanted to go into space

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:29 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Apple can fuck itsel.I'll never own any Apple product. I'll keep my Fold 6 going like a Cuban car if I have to.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 03, 2026 04:33 AM (WYStd)

13 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 04:37 AM (ohOaC)

14 Yea! I'll never buy another Apple product. Except for the MacBook I bought a week ago. And maybe an IPhone. BUT THAT'S IT, DAMMIT!!!!!

maybe....

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 04:46 AM (ohOaC)

15 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 04:49 AM (u82oZ)

16 14 the MacBook I bought a week ago
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 04:46 AM (ohOaC)

How's it going?

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:49 AM (fNISR)

17 It seems the IT world is committed to destroying themselves and taking everone else with them.

Posted by: clarence at April 03, 2026 04:50 AM (R9n3z)

18 publius

Tip of the hat. Your physics based info is stellar. Please give Her Grace my hello.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 04:51 AM (u82oZ)

19 Might as well go.make coffees while I think about going back to bed

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:54 AM (Ia/+0)

20 Puddleglum,

My IPad is very handy for late night browsing. You may consider that as an exception to the boycott as well. But absolutely nothing else.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 03, 2026 04:57 AM (WlUfk)

21
Magills retweeted
J D
@Jdkoa
Apr 1
Replying to @magills_
If we can send one Canadian to the moon, we can send them all there.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 04:58 AM (fNISR)

22 If that article about MS vaporizing $1T is accurate, you know MS will never back off going down with the ship on Win 11.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at April 03, 2026 05:04 AM (/HDaX)

23 "Apollo 10, 97 years ago"

The V2 wasn't around 97 years ago. Fitty-seven years ago, I'd believe for Apollo 10.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 03, 2026 05:04 AM (XDWwQ)

24
Magills
@magills_
Apr 1
Watching the control room makes me sad because no one is smoking

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:07 AM (fNISR)

25 [i[16 14 the MacBook I bought a week ago
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 04:46 AM (ohOaC)

How's it going?
Posted by: m


Going well. AppleOS is not MS Win or Linux Mint, which is what I'm used too. So it's a matter of just finding where things are and what they are called as Apple names stuff differently. First world problems, nothing major. The machine its self is new, so it runs like a new Ferrari. Its very lightweight too, also a plus. Its my shiny new toy.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 05:13 AM (ohOaC)

26
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 03, 2026 05:15 AM (tljrc)

27 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 05:16 AM (MIIRH)

28 ....and maybe an IPad.

BUT THAT'S IT!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 05:16 AM (ohOaC)

29 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 03, 2026 05:16 AM (AN2gy)

30 I have a 2020 iphone SE 2nd gen which aside from only 64GB memory, I'm quite happy with. It is, however, starting to have battery and functionality issues.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 03, 2026 05:20 AM (KAi1n)

31 How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars is an excellent read. I don't understand the technical side.

But at heart it is a people problem.

The leadership of Microsoft chose poorly for a long time. The person who could have fixed many problems notified his superiors, and was eventually fired.

A story as old as time. Shoot the messenger, fail to understand the problem, then suffer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:22 AM (u82oZ)

32 I’m too lazy to read about floating space poo. Is it due to weightlessness or fiber?
It’s pizza Friday so I need to get everything started! BBIAB.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 03, 2026 05:24 AM (OTOad)

33 Man, reading the front-page headlines of the BBC, I'm all, like, calm down. In every category. Will not click!

The Drama's horrifying twist will divide audiences
These artworks are by women - men got the credit

The dark side of the US's most divisive painter

The hoax that shook Australian literature

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:24 AM (fNISR)

34 How much stock does Billy boy still have in M$? He might want to abandon ship if he has not already done so.

Posted by: clarence at April 03, 2026 05:25 AM (R9n3z)

35 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

Looks like Orion is well on its way to the Moon, traveling at a leisurely 5000 mph or so.

It's currently about 67000+ miles away, roughly a quarter of the distance to the Moon.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 03, 2026 05:26 AM (ESVrU)

36 31 The person who could have fixed many problems notified his superiors
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:22 AM (u82oZ)

his stuperiors

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:26 AM (fNISR)

37 24, so true!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 05:27 AM (MIIRH)

38 A story as old as time. Shoot the messenger, fail to understand the problem, then suffer.

Absolutely, if you’re old enough, or have worked basically anywhere, you’ve watched company decisions go south from ignoring the actual problem. I could give at least 3 dozen examples, but you don’t need my old stories. NYC is one of the greatest topical lessons about to be learned in the history of ignoring problems.
Coffee first, then pizza dough making. Got to have priorities!

Posted by: Unkaren at April 03, 2026 05:31 AM (OTOad)

39
https://www.nasa.gov

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:32 AM (fNISR)

40 coming up on 11 hours elapsed time

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:33 AM (fNISR)

41 A blessed Good Friday to those that observe it!. I found a prayer for Holy Week in my wonderful Harper Collins Book of prayers through the ages, compiled by Robert Van de Weyer: It is by Bernard of Clairvaux who lived from 1090 until 1133. He was the main inspiration for the Cistercian order of monks: and wrote prayers for major Christian festivals which were widely disseminated.

You taught us, Lord, that the greatest love a man can show is to lay down his life for his friends. But your love was greater still, because you laid down your life for your enemies. It was while we were still enemies that you reconciled us to yourself by your death.What other love has ever been , or ever could be , like yours? You died at the hand of sinners for the sake of the sinful. You became a slave to tyrants, to set the oppressed free.


Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:35 AM (rZCVI)

42 m

Did NASA nail the essential vector? Or are guidance burns needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

43
Artemis II Mission Elapsed Time
01
DAYS
11
HRS
00
MINS

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:35 AM (fNISR)

44 Fenelon spoke

Good morning. Good Friday indeed.

Did your son get a job after his interview?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:37 AM (u82oZ)

45
The perigee raise burn is complete, marking another planned orbital adjustment in the early hours of the Artemis II mission.

via https://www.nasa.gov

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:38 AM (fNISR)

46 Evening to the late toilers, and morning to the early risers! 'Tis Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished. Stirling did not wake me up early, so the day is starting off on a pleasant note.

Today, however, is the day I have agreed to go to this talk by the commie Korean professor at my old employer. It feels rather as if I escaped from East Berlin a year ago and am going back in on a secret mission. I hope I don't see anybody I know.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

47 FS, a Good Friday and a Happy Easter!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 05:39 AM (MIIRH)

48 Live Mission Updates in the righthand sidebar at

https://www.nasa.gov

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:41 AM (fNISR)

49 And before I leave for the day- a beautiful musical selection- because some posters here enjoy this :🙂"Jesus, redeemer of my soul:

https://tinyurl.com/yjpenwnm

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:42 AM (rZCVI)

50 40 coming up on 11 hours elapsed time
Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:33 AM (fNISR)

1 day + 11 hours

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 05:42 AM (fNISR)

51 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 03, 2026 05:45 AM (bQ4nt)

52 Have a great day, everyone.

May you be spiritually uplifted today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:45 AM (u82oZ)

53 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

Is Miss Linda a left winger? Why does she want to go? Does she know this woman? Could you just say "How about if I drop you off and come back later ?" And then go do something you enjoy.

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:46 AM (rZCVI)

54 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 05:39 AM (MIIRH)

Thanks, dear. Same to you!

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:47 AM (rZCVI)

55 I'm looking at 72 F. here, 90% humidity, winds at 8. Not *bad* workout conditions, just not great. Supposedly (supposably?) we will have less hot and less wet conditions by Monday, after some rains on the weekend. I'm glad I washed and spray-waxed the car yesterday so it will look good until we get that rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

56 Great prayer Fen.

As a pedant, I have to point out that Jesus was 32 years old on Apr. 3, 33 ARSH.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 05:47 AM (qFwJc)

57 Is Miss Linda a left winger? Why does she want to go? Does she know this woman? Could you just say "How about if I drop you off and come back later ?" And then go do something you enjoy.
Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026


***
No, she's not a lefty, thank God. She doesn't know the woman, but somehow the talk title caught her attention. She looks at it as a break in the monotony -- remember, she doesn't work and hardly ever has. And it's a free luncheon as well.

I agreed to this because she originally wanted to go to a $75/person buffet at a downtown restaurant. When I said no, she brought this up, knowing no doubt I'd feel I should give way somewhere. Again, it's free, and will be only about an hour long, so I'll grit my teeth.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

58 Greetings and good morning, everyone! Fen, thank you for that prayer. It's a good start to the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 05:52 AM (NR6c1)

59 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9

Yes, I guess you wouldn't be with her if she was a leftist. Sorry. I suppose you can practice Olympic eye rolling 😉 and she clearly wants your company I hope the lunch is nice.

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:57 AM (Nx5jP)

60 Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 05:52 AM

I'm glad you liked it
I hope you are feeling less sore day by day. God bless you and all the others here.

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 05:59 AM (Nx5jP)

61 Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 05:47 AM (qFwJc

It's ok. God loves pedants too.

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 06:00 AM (Nx5jP)

62 Yes, I guess you wouldn't be with her if she was a leftist. Sorry. I suppose you can practice Olympic eye rolling 😉 and she clearly wants your company I hope the lunch is nice.
Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026


***
I got really good at keeping an impassive Spock-face during Zoom meetings at my last job there, when (for instance) they discussed who was going to give the "land acknowledgment" at an upcoming conference we were sponsoring, and yammered on about "efforts toward increasing diversity." I wanted to laugh and say, "Are you people nuts?", but kept my trap shut.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

63 Spider solitaire is evil

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)

64 Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 03, 2026 05:37 AM (u82oZ

No; Thanks for asking . He has another interview for something else on Monday which is much closer

Spouse has emerged from the bathroom. Time to make coffee. Dear man spent most of the day on taxes.

Take care everyone .

Posted by: Fenelon spoke at April 03, 2026 06:03 AM (Nx5jP)

65 I hope you are feeling less sore day by day.
Posted by: Fenelon spoke


It is getting better. Obviously, my recovery time is longer due to my age but I'm trying to build up. The one thing that got my attention on Monday was when I was doing leg presses and my bad knee raised no objections.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 06:04 AM (NR6c1)

66 Oh
Passkng by my local Muslim community center, their electronic billboard had
No Back biter will enter paradise
Guess something Mo wrote

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:05 AM (Ia/+0)

67 Anybody twirled yet?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 03, 2026 06:08 AM (cxFcK)

68 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: ...he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim!
It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 03, 2026 06:09 AM (OHfJt)

69 From a friend:

Overheard co-worker asking other co-worker if he had seen the new robot Uyghurs.

My brain: "China is automating prison labor?"

Ah. Weeders. Robot weeders.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 06:11 AM (NR6c1)

70 57 years ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:13 AM (52ERr)

71 Sgt Pepper taught the band to play?

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:15 AM (Ia/+0)

72 Best wishes to all the horde on this Friday morn. Hold your dear ones close.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 03, 2026 06:17 AM (CFSiX)

73 Phaul McCartney.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:17 AM (52ERr)

74 What's a DRAM?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:20 AM (52ERr)

75 If I didn’t own a crapton of msft stock, I’d be laughing my ass off at their folly, they also announced their first down qtr since 2009.

This is the part that becomes hard, where do you put your money?

Do you move it to a hold stock or do you try to find a similar growth stock?

But there really isn’t a growth stock that’s going to give you the ROI Msft has given over the last decade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 06:21 AM (XV/Pl)

76 Good morning! Gonna be a bright sunshiny day here in Cowtown. Gotta get a couple more plants in around the waterfall and atop the berm, and fill in an area with late blooming irises. And refill the camera feeder. Might look into an airsoft gun to keep the squirrels at bay.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 03, 2026 06:21 AM (3Ope8)

77
Is that a Clark bar that I see flo... everybody outta the pool!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 06:22 AM (xG4kz)

78 covfefe

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 06:24 AM (fNISR)

79 74 What's a DRAM?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:20 AM (52ERr)

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 06:24 AM (fNISR)

80 What's a DRAM?
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:20 AM (52ERr)

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1/8 fluid ounce.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 03, 2026 06:25 AM (OHfJt)

81 $20 for 1/8 fluid ounce is a lot, even for good bourbon.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 03, 2026 06:27 AM (NcvvS)

82 The Samsung phones I buy don't have chips that thin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:30 AM (52ERr)

83 Mine is 6 nm.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2026 06:32 AM (52ERr)

84 Is that a Clark bar that I see flo... everybody outta the pool!

Wasn’t it a Baby Ruth bar? Better than a Zagnut I suppose!

Posted by: Unkaren at April 03, 2026 06:35 AM (OTOad)

85 Why do I think the Supreme Court will still try and cut the baby in half with a Birthright decision?

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 06:36 AM (Ia/+0)

86 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

87 Don't think Apollo 10 was 97 years ago. I was in third grade and dad got an invite for us to watch from the VIP section. (Dad was an Engineer who worked on the inertial navigation.) Watched it shoot off; I remember Spiro Agnew was there and Jimmy Doolittle sat behind us. Aprilish, 1969.

Posted by: RS at April 03, 2026 06:43 AM (SuU/K)

88 The crew of the Artemis II mission - basically retreading the path of Apollo 10, 97 years ago

I feel old now.

Posted by: Halfhand at April 03, 2026 06:44 AM (IX5dx)

89 Apollo 19: May, 1969.

Posted by: RS at April 03, 2026 06:45 AM (SuU/K)

90 Bustelo rhymes with yellow

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 06:45 AM (ZxPkt)

91
Wasn’t it a Baby Ruth bar?


It was; my mistake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 06:46 AM (xG4kz)

92 @85

>> Why do I think the Supreme Court will still try and cut the baby in half with a Birthright decision?

There is no scenario where the rule on the issue.

They will strike down the EO and say remedy lies in congress.

They may not even say that.

I’m expecting a very short and cryptic ruling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2026 06:50 AM (XV/Pl)

93 Good morning everyone. Looks to be another summery day here. Maybe some cooling and (hopefully) rain this weekend. Be well.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 03, 2026 06:53 AM (aZxs4)

94
The day on which I was born was that year's Good Friday. My Mother used to point that out to me. That, and the fact that I was born in the Naval Hospital at Camp Lejeune, NC.

I lived in North Carolina for all of about ten days before the three of us pulled up stakes and set out for Dad's next Air Force training locale in Lubbock, TX.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 06:56 AM (xG4kz)

95 One of the Artemis mission controllers has a plushie on his station of Artemis, the cat from Sailor Moon.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 06:56 AM (bBeUT)

96 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 03, 2026 06:56 AM (2Ez/1)

97
My sister and I were the singleton births in our family. She was born in TX. Our two brothers were born in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, while our parents both were born in the vicinity of Minneapolis, MN.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 07:00 AM (xG4kz)

98

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 03, 2026 07:03 AM (DDJSl)

99 well, we're all different, innit?
I would'a chipped out $150 in a New York second to avoid a lecture about intersectional colonialism, or whatever that gibberish was.

good luck, Wolfus! Tace ut potes.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 03, 2026 07:13 AM (MIIRH)

100 Meanwhile back at home: The dogs are doing well but I think my boy is really looking forward to the poodle going home.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 03, 2026 07:13 AM (NR6c1)

101 Nice nap, morning.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:16 AM (9L6d7)

102 Sunrise outdoor stations of the cross in 2 hours. It's currently 37 degrees, luckily we didn't receive the predicted snow.
Morning Horde.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 03, 2026 07:17 AM (2NHgQ)

103
I thought intersectional colonialism would cover the rules under which the gimme a handout crowd decides who gets to work which intersection for their sales pitches.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 07:17 AM (xG4kz)

104 mornin yall. In space everyone can smell your farts.

Posted by: Sarge at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (UoFpr)

105 Yea! I'll never buy another Apple product. Except for the MacBook I bought a week ago. And maybe an IPhone. BUT THAT'S IT, DAMMIT!!!!!

maybe....
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2026 04:46 AM (ohOaC)


On the one hand, Apple sucks.
On the other hand, so does pretty much every other tech company.
On the gripping hand, wife decided she wanted to go with Apple years ago and we're unlikely to change at this point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (ExV1e)

106 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)

107 Indeed. The Lord paid the ransom for all.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:19 AM (qFwJc)

108 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?

To dissuade predators?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:19 AM (qFwJc)

109
What one doesn't see these days are the street corner workers hawking newspapers and that is an outstanding example of how irrelevant the printed press has become.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 07:20 AM (xG4kz)

110 IIRC, Pixy mentioned that the Pixel10a is just a 9a with some slight changes.

LOL. I have a 9a, but Google is offering the 10a for $249, down the their original offer of $499.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:22 AM (qFwJc)

111 Have a blessed Good Friday!

Oh, there's the call to prayer! Gotta go!

Posted by: New York City Muslim Man at April 03, 2026 07:22 AM (5itIU)

112 I like my 9a.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 03, 2026 07:23 AM (2pORR)

113 Not tempted.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:24 AM (qFwJc)

114 Making a couple of french loaves today after letting the poolish ferment overnight. Added in a bit of einkorn flour and I hope it does not fuck thinks up. One more bit of dough handling to strengthen gluten and it'll be a rest then loaf formation in my $1.39 Dollar Tree plastic oval bins. I bake them in a pair of 2 1/2" deep Walmart roasting pans I clamshell so there's some steam inside.

And Bondie was a weak choice for AG. Glad to see her gone. The Jack Smith prosecution should have been a layup.

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 03, 2026 07:24 AM (KiBMU)

115 Me too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 03, 2026 07:24 AM (qFwJc)

116 Today is the day that Judas Carville betrays everyone he knows and Chicago Jesus gets pegged by Big Mike across Soldier Field.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 07:24 AM (UqSya)

117 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)

They had a whole lot of orange paint left over from the shuttle program (external fuel tank)?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 03, 2026 07:25 AM (NZIuw)

118 95 One of the Artemis mission controllers has a plushie on his station of Artemis, the cat from Sailor Moon.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Buncha faggots.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:25 AM (9L6d7)

119 Back from my workout, showered, and about to start breakfast. Demetrius and the Gladiators, the sequel to The Robe, is on Movies!, but I doubt I'll watch all of it. It's time to change the furry thugs' litter box, and I need to run over to the store for some more of that Feline Pine litter. My personal jury is still out on whether it works well enough to be worth the initial cost, $12 vs. $7 for the clay stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

120
It is painted orange so that Space Fido can see it in order to play Space Fetch with it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 07:28 AM (xG4kz)

121 Artemis has 2 diff versions of MS Outlook
Neither were working yesterday

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:29 AM (/+uur)

122 I was hoping my former employer would be closed today for Good Friday. We used to have it off, years ago. But no luck.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:29 AM (wzUl9)

123 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?"

Hunter safety?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:29 AM (XuXeR)

124 Puddleglum , wireless keypads may be purchased for them. Takes some of the tedium of the touchpad away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:29 AM (9L6d7)

125 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?
Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)

No. But if you hum a few bars I’ll fake it.
Ba-da-dum

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 03, 2026 07:29 AM (NZIuw)

126 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

Do you like gladiator movies?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:30 AM (/+uur)

127 >>> Feline Pine litter. My personal jury is still out on whether it works well enough to be worth the initial cost, $12 vs. $7 for the clay stuff.

Feline Pine lasts way longer.

If you can't trust fluffy regarding cat litter, who can you trust?

Posted by: fluffy at April 03, 2026 07:31 AM (AN2gy)

128
Artemis has 2 diff versions of MS Outlook
Neither were working yesterday


Batting 1,000! Fist bumps all around!

-- tech clowns at MSFT

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 03, 2026 07:31 AM (xG4kz)

129 the microsoft AI bot says that orange stuff is sprayed-on foam insulation for the liquid-fueled stage of the rocket

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:31 AM (ZxPkt)

130 The Shuttle boosters were Orange as that was the primer color.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:31 AM (/+uur)

131
Do you like gladiator movies?
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026


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Cute slave girls in sandals. What's not to like?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)

132 The first message sent to Artemis via Outlook was from 1 of their moms.

RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE: Easter Joke

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 03, 2026 07:33 AM (/+uur)

133 Apollo 10, 97 years ago"

Still no maths, huh?

Posted by: man at April 03, 2026 07:34 AM (XuXeR)

134 Feline Pine lasts way longer.

If you can't trust fluffy regarding cat litter, who can you trust?
Posted by: fluffy at April 03, 2026


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That's what I'm hoping. If I can get 2-3x the life out of the bag compared to the clay jug -- and I should, at 40 lbs. vs. 14 -- I'm all for it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9)

135 Me and my friend/colleague take the day off on Wednesday to go to our boss's funeral - and my company gets compromised by the Axios npm supply chain attack.

I'm convinced it was him, looking down on us and telling us not to get complacent because he's gone. Its something he would have sunk his teeth into, and the reason its not a hair-on-fire catastrophe is due to the systems he had in place to ensure that a compromise like this wouldn't ruin us.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 03, 2026 07:34 AM (WYStd)

136 Lightning to USB Camera Adapter with Charging Port for iPhone, USB3 Female OTG Adapter Compatible with iPhone/iPad
--

Plug it in, plug one port to a charger and you can run formatted flash drives and other things from the other port.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:35 AM (9L6d7)

137 The poo-poo-poo,
The ca-ca-ca,

That's all I want to say to you.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 03, 2026 07:38 AM (UqSya)

138 No yellow!

Posted by: H. Biden at April 03, 2026 07:38 AM (2Ez/1)

139 >>133 Apollo 10, 97 years ago"

Still no maths, huh?
Posted by: man
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Another example of a well written AI essay.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 07:39 AM (9L6d7)

140 JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2026 07:41 AM (RIvkX)

141 Apollo 10, 97 years ago"
*
Still no maths, huh?
Posted by: man


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I think Pixy was just being funny. You know: "That was, like, a hundred years ago, man."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 03, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)

142 SO 20th century, amirite

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:44 AM (ZxPkt)

143 87 Don't think Apollo 10 was 97 years ago. I was in third grade and dad got an invite for us to watch from the VIP section. (Dad was an Engineer who worked on the inertial navigation.) Watched it shoot off; I remember Spiro Agnew was there and Jimmy Doolittle sat behind us. Aprilish, 1969.
Posted by: RS at April 03, 2026 06:43 AM (SuU/K)

super-cool!

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 08:05 AM (fNISR)

144 "The spacecraft's computer has two instances of Microsoft Outlook running, and neither one works."
- - - - - - - - - - -

*Shakes Magic 8-Ball*

"Outlook not so good"

Posted by: Another Anon at April 03, 2026 08:32 AM (4h45B)

145 Apollo 10, 97 years ago

.. they said there would be no math

Barbie: I hate math

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

146 Home Office
@ukhomeoffice

Police time will no longer be wasted investigating legal social media posts, freeing up officers to patrol the streets and tackle real crime.

By scrapping Non‑Crime Hate Incidents, we are balancing the protection of vulnerable communities while respecting free speech.

9:20 AM · Mar 31, 2026 7.1M Views

Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

147 Posted by: SMOD at April 03, 2026 08:54 AM (RHGPo)

I expected the timestamp on that to be April first.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at April 03, 2026 09:01 AM (lFFaq)

148 95 One of the Artemis mission controllers has a plushie on his station of Artemis, the cat from Sailor Moon.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 03, 2026 06:56 AM (bBeUT)

YAY!

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 09:05 AM (fNISR)

149 via 𝕏 trending

Sailor Moon's Artemis Plushie Steals Spotlight in Artemis II Mission Control
Last updated
9 hours ago

Artemis II launched on April 1, 2026, from Kennedy Space Center, sending four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—on a 10-day trip for a Moon flyby, the first crewed lunar voyage since Apollo 17.

Viewers spotted the stuffed Artemis cat during live streams from Houston's Mission Control, right next to computer panels, sparking joy among anime fans who shared screenshots and noted nearby Sailor Moon ties and lanyards.

The whimsical touch highlighted how fandom blends with space exploration, with fans celebrating personal connections like kids recognizing the character instantly.

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (fNISR)

150 150

Posted by: m at April 03, 2026 09:19 AM (fNISR)

151 Now that the world knows Artemis has Outlook you can only hope the hackers that use it to gain admin control of the spacecraft won't do anything evil with it.

NASA needs to be burned to the ground, the stones scattered, and the earth salted where it stood.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at April 03, 2026 09:30 AM (etVcq)

152 That Azure shit is a great example of what I mean when I say India is destroying our civilization, and that the greatest crime ever committed by the Brits was teaching them English.

Though to be fair, Redmond also has a serious problem with, well, not beating around the bush - manchildren, soycucks, and tremendous prancing faggots that preceded and enabled the great h1b displacement. My company, shockingly for how woke they are, about refuses to hire any Indians at all - but still suffer from similar issues due to now being about 30% freaks. Our days seem numbered though. Trannies and furries just don't perform well.

Posted by: heya at April 03, 2026 10:28 AM (28ma9)

153 106 Does anyone know why the Artemis rocket is painted orange?

Posted by: Don Black at April 03, 2026 07:18 AM (ZxPkt)


Just as with the Space Shuttle's external fuel tank, the body of the main stage of the SLS is covered with a spray-on foam that turns orange when exposed to UV light. After the first couple of Shuttle flights, where the orange foam was painted white, NASA determined that the paint wasn't necessary, and not painting the tanks decreased the tank weight by nearly 700 lbs.

In the case of the SLS, not painting the main body reduces weight by about 1000 lbs, which means that the rocket can boost that much more in payload.

Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at April 03, 2026 12:01 PM (XTURA)

154 Regarding the authors comment that Artemis II is "basically retreading the path of Apollo 10", that's not quite correct.

While the flights of Apollo 8, 10, and 11 were launched on a "free return trajectory" as with Artemis, all of those missions were planned to orbit the moon, and therefore performed Lunar Orbit Insertion burns to achieve orbit.

Apollo 8 achieved lunar orbit, then broke orbit to safely return to Earth. It didn't carry the Lunar Module

Apollo 10's mission was to test the Lunar Module while in orbit around the moon, which it did.

Apollo 11 orbited, successfully landed the LM with Amstrong and Aldren, and then returned to Earth.

Artemis' mission is to simply execute a "free return" trajectory around the moon, and not go into orbit.

I didn't mention Apollo 9, because its mission was to orbit Earth with the LM, and test rendezvous and docking. This is, I think, what is planned for Artemis III.

Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at April 03, 2026 12:16 PM (XTURA)

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - April 2, 2026 [Doof]

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From Archillct

Greetings, Hordelings! Thanks for stopping by tonight's ONT. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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AI is asshoe

Grandmother Wrongfully Jailed for Nearly Six Months After AI Facial Recognition Error

On July 14 of last year, Angela Lipps was at her Tennessee home babysitting four children when armed police officers came and took her away at gunpoint. She was later booked as a fugitive in relation to a bank fraud investigation in North Dakota, over 1,000 miles away. The only problem was that Lipps had never been to North Dakota.

The grandmother of five told investigators that she had lived most of her life in north-central Tennessee and had never even been on a plane. Unfortunately, police in Fargo, North Dakota, had obtained a signed warrant for her arrest on multiple charges, including felony theft and felony unauthorised use of personal identifying information.

Angela Lipps later learned that she had been identified as a suspect in an organised bank fraud case. Investigators reviewing cases in April and May 2025, in which a woman used a fake US Army military ID to withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from banks, used facial recognition software on surveillance camera footage and identified the Tennessee grandmother as the main suspect.

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After spending over three months in a Tennessee jail, at the end of October 2025, Angela Lipps was put on a plane and flown to North Dakota, where she was once again jailed simply because an AI recognition software decided her facial features, body type and hairstyle matched those of a crime suspect.

Video segment at the link.

Putting more automated stuff to use by government entities sure is a great idea, huh?

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Even Bluesky looneys think AI is asshoe!

Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

In its early days, Twitter alternative Bluesky tried to paint itself as a safe haven from the onslaught of AI, promising in November 2024 that it had “no intention” of scraping user-generated posts to train AI models.

It was a shot across the bow, clearly aimed at its rival X-formerly-Twitter, which had recently changed its terms of service to allow just that. And since then, backlash to AI slop and relentless AI integrations has grown to new heights.

So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Bluesky’s abrupt foray into AI isn’t sitting well with its notoriously anti-AI user base.

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“You control it, you shape it, without having to write code or know how to set up these feeds,” Schneider enthused.

The CEO seemed well aware of the headwinds against launching consumer-facing AI products in 2026.

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Graber appeared to be aware of the inflood of hatred for the idea. When a user told her that “we don’t want it,” she replied with a curt: “then don’t use it — it’s a separate app.”

Graber also reshared a post by a different user who claimed people “on the left” were being “shortsighted” by being willfully blind about AI, and that the argument “‘hope it goes away’ doesn’t have a great track record as a strategy for contesting control of new political domains and technologies.” The implication: Bluesky users are wrong about their resentment over AI and should instead embrace it.

Left on left drama and fighting is always a good thing!

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OK, maybe AI is not totally asshoe

Ancient Roman board game stumped experts for decades – until AI played

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A slab of limestone excavated in 1984 from the ancient Coriovallum settlement in the Netherlands presented a puzzle for researchers of Roman history. Because of its distinct grooves and marks, the stone piece was believed to be some kind of board game – but obviously no rulebook was dug up to confirm this. Now, more than 40 years on, new technology appears to have solved the mystery.

An international team of researchers led by Maastricht University in the Netherlands, along with Leiden University, Australia's Flinders University, the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and The Roman Museum and restoration studio Restaura in Heerlen, have used 3D scans and AI to unravel the rules of this mysterious game that no human has been able to figure out.

The oval-shaped stone, roughly 8.3 x 5.7 inches (21 x 14.5 cm) in diameter and marked on one side with distinct intersecting lines, had all the hallmarks of a game played in ancient times. As the researchers note in their paper, people around the world have played games since at least the Bronze Age (around 3000 BCE). A lot haven't survived due to materials used, but the Coriovallum limestone had withstood the test of time.

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They programmed two AI bots to play a digital version of the limestone-etched board, with more than 100 different sets of rules from other games throughout history we know of. The AI players had 1,000 goes at each of these other games, and then a pattern emerged. Nine "rules" the other games had were consistent with this mysterious one.

Using AI to come up with new rules to a game might actually be fun. Got any ideas??


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Easter is a few days away. This sure takes me back to my days as a wee Doof. How about you?

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One week from today - "A Tradition Unlike Any Other"

Legendary sports announcer Jim Nantz uttered those words. They've been trademarked. But not by Jim Nantz.

It's actually owned by Augusta National


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This guy better be watching next week!


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1 !!

Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 10:00 PM (R9n3z)

2 Beach!

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (VCgbV)

3 Jack Sheldon & Mike Hammer
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Who knew?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (YvvFZ)

4 Good evening good people!

That top pic looks like our beloved USAF found another Iranian missile storage site.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

5 Easter is a few days away. This sure takes me back to my days as a wee Doof. How about you?

No sisters. Kitchen appliances were Harvest Gold. Otherwise, right on.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:02 PM (VHUov)

6 It's drink thirty.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:02 PM (YvvFZ)

7 Otters called.

Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 10:02 PM (R9n3z)

8 Beach!
Posted by: lin-duh is offended


Sunoverabeach!

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:03 PM (VHUov)

9 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 02, 2026 10:03 PM (w3u3d)

10 The egg dyes... Pas? Was that the brand?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 10:03 PM (diia5)

11 Had a yellow Pyrex mixing bowl just like that, inherited that from Mom’s side of the family.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2026 10:03 PM (8JbE1)

12 Angela Lipps was at her Tennessee home"

Yeah. Something's not quite right with that tale. Count me somewhat skeptical...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:04 PM (XuXeR)

13 Pro tip: Hotels on Parthenon Place.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (Q+gd/)

14 Dyeing eggs as a wee innocent BSM was a fun memory. I still like boiled eggs.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (syAfa)

15 Pas? Was that the brand?"

Paas.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (XuXeR)

16 Good evening morons И спасибо Диско.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

17 Nice filter on that top pic.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (1Ff7Z)

18 Pas? Was that the brand?"

Paas.
Posted by: man

No, go ahead - take a shot.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 10:06 PM (cYBz/)

19 That Pyrex bowl is probably worth a lot

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 02, 2026 10:06 PM (w3u3d)

20 Paas egg dyeing kits. So precious.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:06 PM (syAfa)

21 Speaking of AI and surveillance... a shit ton of those Flock cameras are showing up around here. Like, out here in the boonies. I'll need to do some research on their method of operation. And counter measures.

Bad Ju Ju here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 10:06 PM (AkEZC)

22 Pro tip: Hang on to Get Out of Crucifixion Free card.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 10:06 PM (Q+gd/)

23 What a world?

Stacy Keach lost his career because they caught him snorting cocaine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:07 PM (YvvFZ)

24 After spending over three months in a Tennessee jail, at the end of October 2025, Angela Lipps was put on a plane and flown to North Dakota, where she was once again jailed simply because an AI recognition software decided her facial features, body type and hairstyle matched those of a crime suspect.

Finally, a reason to be happy that I have..... distinctive* features that won't be confused for someone else's by an AI.

* - ugly

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:07 PM (VHUov)

25 The egg dyes... Pas? Was that the brand?

We used scrambled eggs, so our dye of choice was Spas.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 10:07 PM (Riz8t)

26 I remember times like that.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (Cqx++)

27 Another fantastic Doof ONT. The egg dying- could you smell the vinegar? I also remember doing this with my girls. All 3 of them will tell you my mantra on the glitter dyes- glitter is forever. If you use it, commit to it for life as it will always be around on the rug, the wall, wherever it touched, some part remains.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (OoFl2)

28 Martini Farmer
WA state just ordered the Flock cameras shut down to keep ICE from using them to track illegals.
Or, as the Politburo said, "To protect people's privacy".

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (rFtAF)

29 Nice ONT, Doof. Weren't you around last evening? You know - fools? C'mon, man!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (7D3Aa)

30 Dying the easter eggs. I remember that shit. We still do it, but its changed. Used to be hot water, now you use cold water, and the colors don't seem right. They ruin everything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (snZF9)

31 No, go ahead - take a shot"

Heh.

Paas, from pasen... didn't anyone read the earlier thread?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (XuXeR)

32 Apropos of nothing, I noticed reading some history of the cold war, Americans in government seem to have had cooler names in the 1940s and 1950s

Roscoe Hillenkoetter (CIA)
General Andrew Goodpaster
General Lymen L. Limnetzer
General Hoyt S. Vandenburg

Ya just don’t meet anyone named “Roscoe” or “Hoyt” anymore. Sad!

Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (MdA1p)

33 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (zZu0s)

34 Looks like the red skies in the top photo will lead to sailor's delight.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (S/Y4j)

35 Sometime in the 80s, there were plastic decorative sleeves that could shrink around eggs. Those were soulless and not so fun as dyeing eggs.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (syAfa)

36 Putting more automated stuff to use by government entities sure is a great idea, huh?

Brazil knew bureaucracy well.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (2GVsD)

37 Aw, that egg-dyeing scene brings back memories! Mom, me, lil sis & lil bro-- making such a mess. Only thing missing from that photo is many layers of newspaper to protect the kitchen table from stains.

Question for the horde:

Did you ever NOT find all the hidden eggs? Like, for a loooong time? Hahaha. I can think of twice that happened for us.

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)

38 Another fantastic Doof ONT. The egg dying- could you smell the vinegar? I also remember doing this with my girls. All 3 of them will tell you my mantra on the glitter dyes- glitter is forever. If you use it, commit to it for life as it will always be around on the rug, the wall, wherever it touched, some part remains.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (OoFl2)


I was actually just about to say "I can smell the vinegar in that photo"!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (QMAsf)

39 Bluesky AI should be easy to code. Just program it with what some 55 year old who owns a lot of cats hates, and then add some F-bombs. Boom. Done.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

40
More like a Bald Eagle, amirite?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (xG4kz)

41 Today was trash pickup day and I needed to retrieve my bin from the curb. I opened the front door, took one step outside, and realized it was raining and windy. I jumped back into the house and quickly shut the door.

Then it hit me. I had become a cat.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (YXOE0)

42 Doof, thanks for the ONT.

Photo of sunrise or sunset is spectacular. If it is sunrise I hope no one is sailing. Wow.

Love the 82yr old golfer. He's very spry.

A lot of songs of foolishness of love. Sometimes it all works out in spite of the odds against you.

Love you all. XXXX

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (WONhk)

43 There was one Easter my mom and Paul's mom decided to make and sell Easter breads each with a colored egg in a basket.

Which meant me, him, and lib little sis dyeing about 5 dozen eggs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

44 On a few occasions, some of our boys thought throwing Easter eggs was cool. Their mother disagreed. Heads hung low; sister laughing.

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (7D3Aa)

45 Twitter alternative Bluesky tried to paint itself as a safe haven from the onslaught of AI, promising in November 2024 that it had “no intention” of scraping user-generated posts to train AI models.

What management says: "We have no intention of doing X."

What management means: "We're already doing X."

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (VHUov)

46 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (ohOaC)

47 Nice ONT, Doof. Weren't you around last evening? You know - fools? C'mon, man!!
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (7D3Aa)


I was not here last night. Did I repeat a "fool" song? If so, please don't tell Dino!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

48 Maybe AI can solve the mystery of what those weird Roman Decahedrons were used for. No convincing explanation has emerged, though many have tried.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2026 10:12 PM (MdA1p)

49 ONT!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 10:12 PM (6U1c2)

50 Just got a batch of double chocolate brownies out of the oven

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 10:12 PM (ZxPkt)

51 I was actually just about to say "I can smell the vinegar in that photo"!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM

Fist bump!

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:12 PM (OoFl2)

52 Bluesky AI should be easy to code. Just program it with what some 55 year old who owns a lot of cats hates, and then add some F-bombs. Boom. Done.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

Mix in raimondo and Mary from Brattleboro, and you'll have a winner for Bluesky.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 10:12 PM (S/Y4j)

53 I'm watching the Artemis II tracker over at NASA's website.

It's pretty amazing.

It's like we're shooting a grain of sand at a moving beach ball several miles away.

We're not aiming to hit it, but to send the grain of sand just close enough so that the beach ball can reach out with an invisible hand (gravity) and toss our grain of sand back to us, where we'll catch it in a kiddie pool filled with water.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 10:13 PM (ESVrU)

54 47 Nice ONT, Doof. Weren't you around last evening? You know - fools? C'mon, man!!
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (7D3Aa)

I was not here last night. Did I repeat a "fool" song? If so, please don't tell Dino!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:11

He did an entire fool montage

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:13 PM (OoFl2)

55 Then it hit me. I had become a cat.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy


Is that an upgrade over a potato?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:13 PM (VHUov)

56
Did you ever NOT find all the hidden eggs? Like, for a loooong time? Hahaha. I can think of twice that happened for us.
Posted by: JQ


I lost a frozen orange juice concentrate can that rolled under the front passenger's seat. For just shy of a week and in the summer, it was. And the can broke open.

To say that the car stunk was an understatement. To say that the stink lasted a long time was another understatement.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:13 PM (xG4kz)

57 All 3 of them will tell you my mantra on the glitter dyes- glitter is forever.
Posted by: Piper

A HS buddy of mine is a OB/GYN. While preparing for an exam by him, one of his patients accidently grabbed, and used, her daughter glitter hair spray.

At the beginning of the exam, he noticed and asked "Feeling a bit festive today?"

HeyOhhhhhhh!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

58 I caught a little bit of Megyn Kelly 's show today and she was really blasting Trump. I hadn't heard her in a while and she's really gone off the rails. She was saying his speech last night was a lie, that we were getting bogged down in Iran and would be there for months or years. That his poll numbers are so low the White House is panicking. Hes lost blacks and Hispanics and all of the white men who voted for him. I could only take a few minutes of her because her TDS is getting out of control. I wonder if she was really behind him at all.

Posted by: Megthered at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (Zkvx0)

59 Everything about the golf video is off. You don't have your golf partners surrounding you in the fairway unless you're playing a scramble. You don't celebrate an approach shot immediately after you hit it. I don't know why they would be filming a shot from the fairway.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (V4IXI)

60 Required to show an ID today...to return a $280 phone. We know what you don't need an ID for.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (EXZem)

61 He did an entire fool montage


And the horde added MANY more fool songs!

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (7D3Aa)

62
Why no love for the favorite song of foosball players at campus watering holes?

"Everybody Plays the Foo"

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (xG4kz)

63 I saw that AI jails innocent granma story a liitle while ago.
Someone needs to sue

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (6U1c2)

64 On the board game... why do I suspect the AI guys don't even realize they didn't 'discover the rules', they did the equivalent of shaking up a box of 'According to Hoyle' rules and having an unpaid intern blindly test each one to see if it was even remotely applicable? And then noone checked the intern's work to see if he put something in the 'keep' pile that didn't work, or put something in the 'discard' pile that was a really good keeper?

Is it because I'm an optimist? Is that it?

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

65 Sorry I'm late, somebody sneezed when I was eating spaghetti all covered with cheese with a meatball on top.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (f67+3)

66 Did you ever NOT find all the hidden eggs? Like, for a loooong time? Hahaha. I can think of twice that happened for us.

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)

No, no,no. I recall a few times Mom hid eggs around inside the house because of bad weather. There is no way she would have forgotten the location of an egg. Mom's house was and is like a museum. There is no dust. No mess. And no rotten egg.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (syAfa)

67 I was not here last night. Did I repeat a "fool" song? If so, please don't tell Dino!
Posted by: Doof


You didn't repeat Dino's. In fact, I think Quarterflash wasn't mentioned at all. The other two were mentioned by the Commentariat.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

68 What I learned about Ancient Rome today. They often put small white stone at the corners of the paving stones used to make their roads so it'd be easier to follow the road at night.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (ndZc7)

69 Sorry I'm late, somebody sneezed when I was eating spaghetti all covered with cheese with a meatball on top.
Posted by: tankdemon


Speaking of childhood memories.....

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (VHUov)

70 I was not here last night. Did I repeat a "fool" song? If so, please don't tell Dino!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:11

He did an entire fool montage
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:13 PM (OoFl2)


Just looked. No repeats. I'm safe!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

71 I lost a frozen orange juice concentrate can that rolled under the front passenger's seat. For just shy of a week and in the summer, it was. And the can broke open.

To say that the car stunk was an understatement. To say that the stink lasted a long time was another understatement.


My wife and I were driving to a pot luck in our new minivan. She had a crockpot full of baked beans on the floor between her feet. For whatever reason, she lost control of it, and the beans and bean juice soaked into the carpet. The smell never truly left that vehicle.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (Riz8t)

72 Hes lost blacks and Hispanics and all of the white men who voted for him. I could only take a few minutes of her because her TDS is getting out of control. I wonder if she was really behind him at all.
Posted by: Megthered at April 02, 2026 10:14 PM (Zkvx0)

That's really going to hurt him when he runs for re-election.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (V4IXI)

73 Is the music theme April Fools a day late?

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (w3u3d)

74 Sorry I'm late, somebody sneezed when I was eating spaghetti all covered with cheese with a meatball on top.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (f67+3)
----
You'll find your poor meatball right next to a hidden Easter egg...about 3 months from now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (ESVrU)

75 Oh good lord. I just looked at the floor in that easter egg dying pic. Its the same floor that was here when I moved in. No wonder why I nuked the kitchen way ahead of schedule. Just seeing it again....damn.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (snZF9)

76 Almost first...

Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (9MsZK)

77 we already have a raimondo AI here, "Raimondo On Tap".

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (gKWVE)

78 Stone game:
4 players
center court divided in half
coins in each of the players quadrant
Idea: thump as many of the other players coins into your quadrant

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (YvvFZ)

79
I could only take a few minutes of her because her TDS is getting out of control. I wonder if she was really behind him at all.
Posted by: Megthered


She started down this path when she went all maudlin after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. One podcast of that was enough.

I do not miss her at all and she, herself, is tanking her brand.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (xG4kz)

80 Paas is from Dutch for Easter.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (rbvCR)

81 47 Nice ONT, Doof. Weren't you around last evening? You know - fools? C'mon, man!!
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:08 PM (7D3Aa)

I was not here last night. Did I repeat a "fool" song? If so, please don't tell Dino!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (QMAsf)

All new songs Doof. I forgot the Quarterflash song, "Find Another Fool". Good choice.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (y171U)

82 You didn't repeat Dino's. In fact, I think Quarterflash wasn't mentioned at all. The other two were mentioned by the Commentariat.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)


That Quarterflash song is awesome. I don't remember it being a big hit back in the day, though.

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (QMAsf)

83 A HS buddy of mine is a OB/GYN. While preparing for an exam by him, one of his patients accidently grabbed, and used, her daughter glitter hair spray.

At the beginning of the exam, he noticed and asked "Feeling a bit festive today?"

HeyOhhhhhhh!!
Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026

Why would she…I mean…that would probably really burn.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (OoFl2)

84 After spending over three months in a Tennessee jail, at the end of October 2025, Angela Lipps was put on a plane and flown to North Dakota, where she was once again jailed simply because an AI recognition software decided her facial features, body type and hairstyle matched those of a crime suspect.
==

In some jurisdiction one of the catches is that there must be a human witness... because a picture cannot testify against you and a human seeing a picture is hearsay.
Actually did in traffic / stop light cameras in some places.
The out for ticket writers was to just pile a few cops into a van and take pictures and notes...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (/lPRQ)

85 DOOF!
Hi darlin'!
I so love the Valvoline billboard😜!
You and that dinosaur...yeah baby!
Excellent ONT...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (nbQfO)

86 Thanks for the Thursday Night ONT, Doof!

Spectacular photo up top. The chair looks lonely...

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (vrNzf)

87 Stone game:
4 players
center court divided in half"

Pickleball?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (XuXeR)

88 >15 Pas? Was that the brand?"

Paas.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (XuXeR)

Paws. One whole rabbit in every box.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (GTqXr)

89 Is the music theme April Fools a day late?
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (w3u3d)


*looks at text above videos*

*shakes head*

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

90 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware?

Posted by: Vintage Nerd at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (oY1HT)

91 Paws. One whole rabbit in every box."

Ah. Bunny boiling

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (XuXeR)

92 When our boys were in elementary school they'd draw with a white crayon before the great egg dye.

I had a lot of energy when expecting #2 during the elder son's naptime. I sewed winter jumpers for myself! I sewed Sesame St. puppets for his birthday! I made Polish pisanki eggs with a kit (that I still have after going cross country twice and suffering in a hot FL attic). I may make them again someday and order a kit. I wish I had that energy now.

This year our son, DIL and grands are going on a cruise, flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow. Favorite BIL and SIL are busy with her family. And we don't feel like dealing with the agnostic in-laws.

We are going to Mass and then a very fancy brunch at a French place we haven't been to in decades. Very lovely but rumored to be too costly for the food. We'll take our chances and the grounds will be beautiful at the base of a canyon.

We may have an egg hunt after Easter or on the 4th of July at this rate. I use fake eggs because after the first hunt grandson throws them from his jeep (or did, while wearing a lady's fascinator hat after I made a bunch for a tea shower). I have insane grandchildren.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:20 PM (WONhk)

93 DOOF!
Hi darlin'!
I so love the Valvoline billboard😜!
You and that dinosaur...yeah baby!
Excellent ONT...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 10:18 PM (nbQfO)


Howdy COMM!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:20 PM (QMAsf)

94 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware?

Posted by: Vintage Nerd at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (oY1HT)

You people. You make me laugh.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (syAfa)

95 Howdy, podners.

Top pic: Wow!

Posted by: mindful webworker - me am earthlinge at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (ByrUz)

96 65 Sorry I'm late, somebody sneezed when I was eating spaghetti all covered with cheese with a meatball on top.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026

So that’s what that was rolling through the garden…

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (OoFl2)

97 MybMy mother loved all the holiday traditions. With six kids, there were always a few young ones getting excited about Easter egg decorations or Christmas tree ornaments or Thanksgiving

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (DGAza)

98 One week from today - "A Tradition Unlike Any Other"


I'm a huge golf fan and The Masters is my favorite tournament. Augusta National looks so beautiful it doesn't seem real. Looking forward to next week!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (ohOaC)

99 Is Tiger Woods gonna be the beer bitch at the Masters?

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:22 PM (7D3Aa)

100 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware"

Yep. Fiesta = lines/ridges at the rim. Pyrex = white interior.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:22 PM (XuXeR)

101 Would hide eggs in the yard, it was always something to find an egg that had been missed about 6 months later.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 10:22 PM (pFJNq)

102 Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

-
I guess they prefer authentic stupidity to artificial intelligence.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:22 PM (ndZc7)

103 The first "lost egg" was actually hidden in plain sight. It was tucked into the side of a small xylophone which hung on the living room wall. Pale yellow, which matched the wooden box very well. Mom saw it *months* later.

The other one was tucked into the underside of antique dining room table-- it had pull-out leaves at either end and there was just enough space to hold an egg. The younger kids were still very little and curious about that table, so Mom figured they'd find it. Well... she forgot about it! I was helping her move the table across the room a couple years later and *bam!* Peee-yew!

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 10:22 PM (rdVOm)

104 I remember the Easter Egg coloring kit where you dip it in a solution that looked like an oil slick and the egg came out looking like a tie dyed shirt.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 10:23 PM (V4IXI)

105 Is Tiger Woods gonna be the beer bitch at the Masters?"

Serving pimento sandwiches...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:23 PM (XuXeR)

106 74 Sorry I'm late, somebody sneezed when I was eating spaghetti all covered with cheese with a meatball on top.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (f67+3)

It rolled off the table
and onto the floor
And then your poor meatball
rolled out of the door
It rolled in the garden
and under a bush
TL;DR: your meatball is mush

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 10:24 PM (6U1c2)

107 Oh yeah that’s the age for fiesta ware.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 10:24 PM (pFJNq)

108 So that’s what that was rolling through the garden…
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (OoFl2)


Run away, turn away, run away, turn away . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:24 PM (gKWVE)

109 Just looked. No repeats. I'm safe!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

You did good! A lotta foolish love over the decades! I was once a fool for love, wasn't everyone? He's still living with me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (WONhk)

110 I'm a huge golf fan and The Masters is my favorite tournament. Augusta National looks so beautiful it doesn't seem real. Looking forward to next week!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (ohOaC)


There's a course near Annapolis MD called "Renditions". All of the holes are patterned after select holes from well known courses. They have replicas of the 3 "Amen Corner" holes from Augusta. I have a photo of me sitting on the stone bridge that looks just like the one above. It really does look like I'm at Augusta!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

111 Instead of wasting my time searching the internet, let’s ask Publius! Or, other big brain types lurking here.

Was the Orion spacecraft visible over North America as it orbited? How about the TLI? I seem to remember reading that Apollo 8, for example was visible at TLI for those watching the sky in Hawaii.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (81VdM)

112 >>Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware?
----------

Yep. Pyrex bowls were colored only on the outside, plain white inside. Fiesta was colored on all surfaces. (IIRC)

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (rdVOm)

113 I caught a little bit of Megyn Kelly 's show today and she was really blasting Trump. I hadn't heard her in a while and she's really gone off the rails. She was saying his speech last night was a lie, that we were getting bogged down in Iran and would be there for months or years. That his poll numbers are so low the White House is panicking. Hes lost blacks and Hispanics and all of the white men who voted for him. I could only take a few minutes of her because her TDS is getting out of control. I wonder if she was really behind him at all.
Posted by: Megthered


Oh, we'll be there months and years.

Trumps Persian Rug Emporium !

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

114 Ya just don’t meet anyone named “Roscoe” or “Hoyt” anymore. Sad!
Posted by: Common Tater at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (MdA1p)

People still get called "Fatty," though.

Posted by: Roscoe Arbuckle at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

115 >92 When our boys were in elementary school they'd draw with a white crayon before the great egg dye.

---

When I was a wee Meta, many of the Babcis in my hood would bring their Paska baskets to church before the Vigil Mass on Holy Saturday to be bless. Many baskets contained Pysanky - amazingly decorated eggs.

https://www.kepamika.com/default.asp?spage=6



Posted by: Heavy Meta at April 02, 2026 10:26 PM (GTqXr)

116 We used to hide eggs in the yard but our dogs would find them before the kids.

Posted by: Megthered at April 02, 2026 10:26 PM (Zkvx0)

117
😂😂

"U.S. President Donald Trump:

"Is Bruce Springsteen going to sue his plastic surgeon?"

😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 10:26 PM (GD0B3)

118 Sommmmbody is in a good mood!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 10:26 PM (GD0B3)

119 116 We used to hide eggs in the yard but our dogs would find them before the kids.
Posted by: Megthered


Oh my. I bet you needed the windows open for awhile after that.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:27 PM (gKWVE)

120 Run away, turn away, run away, turn away . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 10:24 PM (gKWVE)


Did you really just drop a Bronski Beat reference??

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:27 PM (QMAsf)

121 A HS buddy of mine is a OB/GYN. While preparing for an exam by him, one of his patients accidently grabbed, and used, her daughter glitter hair spray.
At the beginning of the exam, he noticed and asked "Feeling a bit festive today?"
Posted by: Tonypete

Why would she…I mean…that would probably really burn.
Posted by: Piper


She thought it was spray deodorant?

She wasn't thinking about the side effects of applying unknown chemicals to delicate areas?

Why am I trying to fathom what an unknown woman was thinking? I can't do that for the ones I know.....

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:27 PM (VHUov)

122 64 On the board game... why do I suspect the AI guys don't even realize they didn't 'discover the rules', they did the equivalent of shaking up a box of 'According to Hoyle' rules and having an unpaid intern blindly test each one to see if it was even remotely applicable? And then noone checked the intern's work to see if he put something in the 'keep' pile that didn't work, or put something in the 'discard' pile that was a really good keeper?

Is it because I'm an optimist? Is that it?
Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 10:15 PM (aJQbY)

Well, we could give the same AI a picture of any modern board game or even a baseball diamond and see how closely the AI's rules match the actual rules.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 02, 2026 10:27 PM (w/O5Q)

123 Oh God, we had that linoleum too!

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 10:27 PM (aJQbY)

124 37 Did you ever NOT find all the hidden eggs? Like, for a loooong time? Hahaha. I can think of twice that happened for us.
Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 10:10 PM (rdVOm)

https://youtu.be/uuUVfPYtd4M

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026 10:28 PM (f67+3)

125 Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf)

The one in Houston is called Tour 18. Their Amen Corner is also a great replica .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 10:28 PM (V4IXI)

126 More Fool Me
-Genesis

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 10:28 PM (RIvkX)

127 hmmm..more housecleaning "Removed by the Department of War: Gen. David Hodne, head of Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., chief of the Chaplain Corps"

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 10:29 PM (GD0B3)

128 What I learned about Ancient Rome today. They often put small white stone at the corners of the paving stones used to make their roads so it'd be easier to follow the road at night.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Hawaiians did the same - road on black lava, little white rock piles spaced along the route. Almost like white lines are used today on highways.

Kind of handy.
If you are off the 'road' and see a little pile of white rocks, go to a pile, look both ways, the road becomes obvious.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)

129 123 Oh God, we had that linoleum too!
Posted by: RandomDave

I feel like every one of hubby's Jersey relatives had that floor

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 10:29 PM (6U1c2)

130 Wut ...

No Aretha, and Chain of Fools

For shame ...

https://shorturl.at/k3rfT

Posted by: browndog says woof at April 02, 2026 10:29 PM (3sXRv)

131 Roscoe Hillenkoetter (CIA)
General Andrew Goodpaster
General Lymen L. Limnetzer
General Hoyt S. Vandenburg
Ya just don’t meet anyone named “Roscoe” or “Hoyt” anymore. Sad!
Posted by: Common Tater


I can't imagine going to public school while being named "Lymen L. Limnetzer."

"Andy Goodpaster" was happy he was in the same class; they ignored him.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:29 PM (VHUov)

132 Love the 82yr old golfer. He's very spry.

-
I was amused by this 29 year old busting a move for a free tire rotation.

https://is.gd/Z6ucUB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:30 PM (ndZc7)

133 I cannot eat hardboiled eggs unless they are made fresh and warm. I just can't. I don't care how fancy they are. Whereas I betcha my SIL's would eat them after a week in the hot sun. Their mother made them immune to food poisoning with leftovers.

I have never been the same since a huge egg hunt at a park near my grandmother's. One of my cousins, a few years younger than me, ate all of the eggs she found (I think probably with some shells). I was grossed out as she had stuff all over her toddler face.

This was also the egg hunt where a girl I did not know loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.

Very traumatic all in all for me. I was about 6yrs old.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:30 PM (WONhk)

134 Love the 82yr old golfer. He's very spry.


I've made shots like that before, but not for an eagle. It was probably for an 8, lol! I did make a hole in one a few years ago, but I never saw it go in. I lost site of the ball in the air. Lots of trees around and the sun light and shadows made it hard for me to see the ball. I knew it would hit the green but then I didn't see it on the green. Some guys, who were letting my play through saw it though. Best shot I ever made and I didn't even see it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:31 PM (ohOaC)

135 loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.

Christy, I know I shouldn't have, but I laughed when I read that! Thanks.

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:31 PM (7D3Aa)

136 facial recognition software… identified the Tennessee grandmother as the main suspect.

As I said before when this story was brought up, it wasn't AI that arrested her, jailed her, and charged her. It was people who thought artificial devices were smarter than actual intelligence.

Note the report from the Tech news this morning, that the CEO of America's largest public hospital system says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI.

We turn over our systems, medical, legal, governmental, to the clankers, and we let them rule us. A bit prematurely to say the least. But, then, some people trust the Enemedia, trust the Science, and vote for Democrats. Stupid, stupid humans.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Skynet, a little dab'll do ya. Use more only if you dare. at April 02, 2026 10:32 PM (ByrUz)

137 Is the music theme April Fools a day late?
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat


Strictly speaking April Fools Day is nominally on the first, which begins at midnight. Otherwise the Fool is not yet a day old.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:32 PM (/lPRQ)

138
My in-laws family conducts "egg wars" with hard boiled and dyed eyes for Easter.

Each person chooses an egg and decides how to hold it in their hand(s). Folks then pair off.

One person uses their egg as a the striker and usually holds the egg with the pointy end down to strike. The other's egg is struck and usually that egg is held with the pointy side up. One strike is allowed and whichever egg's shell cracks, that person is out of the contest. (In the event of no crack, striking is repeated until one of the eggs' shell cracks.)

It's a single elimination competition, and eventually one person's egg comes through the fray unscathed, thus making them the egg wars' champion. The winning egg typically endures through four (or sometimes five) bouts of striking.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:32 PM (xG4kz)

139 I remember the Easter Egg coloring kit where you dip it in a solution that looked like an oil slick and the egg came out looking like a tie dyed shirt.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg


Aha! One of the rich kids who had the good egg-coloring kits!

I bet you had real play-doh and not the flour/water/food-coloring homemade kind, too.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

140 My uncle, marine wwii aviator, flew a hundred dive bombing missions in the Pacific without serious harm, got his first hole in one at 80 or 81 years old. Died three days later.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (sl73Y)

141 Don't know if this is a Fools Day thing...
I read that PETA wants to have Easter potato day instead of Easter eggs...colored potatoes and all. Because the poor, put out hens.
Good grief. I truly hope this is a joke. Please tell me people are not this retarded.... 🤯

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (nbQfO)

142 Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI

Fuck 'em. I hope they all get chipped like dogs and still end up in kill shelters, unloved and unclaimed.

Posted by: Their intelligence is artificial, alright at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (PgtqW)

143 There's a course near Annapolis MD called "Renditions". All of the holes are patterned after select holes from well known courses. They have replicas of the 3 "Amen Corner" holes from Augusta. I have a photo of me sitting on the stone bridge that looks just like the one above. It really does look like I'm at Augusta!
Posted by: Doof



I've heard of it but haven't visited. It's a bitch of a drive from my little part of the DMV.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:34 PM (ohOaC)

144 > Is the music theme April Fools a day late?

You're a fool if you think it's over.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Rea at April 02, 2026 10:34 PM (DqQS/)

145 75 Oh good lord. I just looked at the floor in that easter egg dying pic. Its the same floor that was here when I moved in. No wonder why I nuked the kitchen way ahead of schedule. Just seeing it again....damn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 10:17 PM (snZF9)

Yes Bers I remember that floor too! It was sold for decades, 12 inch squares. I think it started off being sold by Sears, then moved to all of the flooring stores.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 10:34 PM (pFJNq)

146 I bet you had real play-doh and not the flour/water/food-coloring homemade kind, too.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (VHUov)

And all the silly putty I wanted !!

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (V4IXI)

147 110 I'm a huge golf fan and The Masters is my favorite tournament. Augusta National looks so beautiful it doesn't seem real. Looking forward to next week!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:21 PM (ohOaC)

There's a course near Annapolis MD called "Renditions". All of the holes are patterned after select holes from well known courses. They have replicas of the 3 "Amen Corner" holes from Augusta. I have a photo of me sitting on the stone bridge that looks just like the one above. It really does look like I'm at Augusta!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:25 PM (QMAsf

Davidsonville. 😊

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (OoFl2)

148 Oh good lord. I just looked at the floor in that easter egg dying pic. Its the same floor that was here when I moved in. No wonder why I nuked the kitchen way ahead of schedule. Just seeing it again....damn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


Peel and stick squares ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)

149 My uncle, marine wwii aviator, flew a hundred dive bombing missions in the Pacific without serious harm, got his first hole in one at 80 or 81 years old. Died three days later.
Posted by: From about That Time

SEE! That exercise will kill you!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (cYBz/)

150 I think turning over key systems to AI is a great idea. Go for it!

Posted by: The Forbin Project at April 02, 2026 10:36 PM (RIvkX)

151
This was also the egg hunt where a girl I did not know loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.


That is so sad, for both the chick and the little girl.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:36 PM (xG4kz)

152 Then it hit me. I had become a cat.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Or... a pussy?
(I keed, I keed)

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 10:36 PM (q6tQZ)

153 I bought a fifth of Barrel Hitch and left it under the front seat for some reason, and the next day was a 99 degree scorcher, and the cork popped out on its own.
I was afraid to drive the car in the evenings and on the weekend for a couple of weeks until the smell went away.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 10:38 PM (rbvCR)

154 Someone start warming up the 4th Amendment. AI is a definite threat to personal privacy.

As and example:

Two Harvard University students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, developed a software application that pairs Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with artificial intelligence (AI) to identify strangers in real-time, accessing personal information such as names, phone numbers, and addresses.

Something tells me we need to bring back "Model Releases" for public areas.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)

155 Oh God, we had that linoleum too!
Posted by: RandomDave

I feel like every one of hubby's Jersey relatives had that floor
Posted by: vmom


Similar flooring, probably that exact curtain pattern. Metal-legged formica table, but a wood-grain pattern.

Grandma had a white top & aluminum edged one kinda like that, though.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:38 PM (VHUov)

156 >> It's like we're shooting a grain of sand at a moving beach ball several miles away.

It's amazing, ain't it? And note the 3D nature of the trajectory. It's not confined to a single plane. The outbound leg is pretty in the Moon's orbital plane, but they hit the approach angle just so the Moon throws it "down" a bit. The cocks the return plane so that when the capsule gets back to earth, it's turns up just so it's heading NE over the Pacific for splashdown.

The Moon's gravity does all that plane changing. The TLI burn was simultaneously a re-entry burn as well! Now, there may be some slight errors, and they'll have two course correction points which should be plotted on that map. If they're off a smidge, they can do some small burns to correct.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 10:38 PM (w6EFb)

157 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware?
Posted by: Vintage Nerd


Fiesta Ware is glazed and fired inside and out with same color.
Pyrex is usually white inside and colored outside.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)

158 Davidsonville. 😊
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (OoFl2)


Yup. Down in "Ann Arunnel" County!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 10:39 PM (QMAsf)

159 One Easter we were in Edinburgh and after church at St. Gile's we climbed Arthur's Seat.

We observed a Scot's rite of people coming to a hill below us, a lot of people, and rolling eggs down the hill. Kids and dogs and adults would chase the eggs, and people would roll down the hill in the melee.

We four Americans did not expect this and watched totally bewildered. Then hiked down and had some Scotch and dinner at a pub. Unlike my men, I did not have blood pudding or haggis as I live on bread and cheese and wine and dessert when I travel. In this case, every night Sticky Toffee Pudding.

https://tinyurl.com/5dst6tmr

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:39 PM (WONhk)

160 Is Tiger Woods gonna be the beer bitch at the Masters?
Posted by: LRob

He doesn't drink but might pass out from a downer OD and ruin the bar cart in a water hazard.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:40 PM (/lPRQ)

161 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware?
Posted by: Vintage Nerd at April 02, 2026 10:19 PM (oY1HT)


I have that bowl set, except for the smallest red one.
Great set, I picked them up over the years at garage sales. I don't think Fiesta Ware or Fire King did that yellow color.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 10:41 PM (rbvCR)

162 I don't have too many talents, but I'm probably one of the loudest people on this cursed Earth. I can scream like the Devil in G-d's clutches.

It's a useful skill when you're shouting people down, but it's also good for whipping up a crowd. When people are being too quiet, you can start belting it out, and they'll start growing louder to match your volume.

I used this to effect in a performance at a famous theater tonight. In the first half, the performance was excellent, but the crowd was sedate, so after the intermission, I started screaming like a hillbilly banshee, and the crowd had no choice but to meet the standard.

I'm sure the performers appreciated that raucous response in the second half, because they kept gesturing to the crowd to bring up the volume even more.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 10:42 PM (BI5O2)

163 We used to hide eggs in the yard but our dogs would find them before the kids.
Posted by: Megthered

Oh my. I bet you needed the windows open for awhile after that.
Posted by: gKWVE

The eggshells would make the dog shake like he was shitting razor blades.

...
Worth It !
- the dog.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:42 PM (/lPRQ)

164 Are y'all sure that bowl is Pyrex and not Fiesta Ware"

Yep. Fiesta = lines/ridges at the rim. Pyrex = white interior.
Posted by: man

Yep. Pyrex bowls were colored only on the outside, plain white inside. Fiesta was colored on all surfaces. (IIRC)
Posted by: JQ

Fiesta Ware is glazed and fired inside and out with same color.
Pyrex is usually white inside and colored outside.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


I'm beginning to think all y'all aren't really 29.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 10:43 PM (VHUov)

165 Valvoline

Valvoline Restore & Protect

A real estate agent who (thanks Tonypete) has 224K on his F-150 told me he received a noticeable difference in performance after the second oil change with this.
He said the first oil change was unbelievably crappy.

youtube.com/watch?v=CGGxNrKkd3s

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:43 PM (YvvFZ)

166 When will we get the first Grok-created ONT? And whose style shall it be instructed to mimic? The current cobs? MisHum? Maetenloch might be interesting.

Or Skynet style: Articles like the ones above, but praising AI's work and choices, and noting how useless humans have become?

Just think what Ace could save on those expensive dental plans!

Until they take over Ace's work…?!?

Posted by: mindful webworker - artisanally intelligent at April 02, 2026 10:43 PM (ByrUz)

167 I always thought the blue Play-Doh tasted better than the red, green, or yellow, but I know tastes vary.

Posted by: The Galloping Gourmet at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (oY1HT)

168 FYI Astronauts getting ready for a live stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (REq0p)

169 I'm with you, mikeski. I knew Mom had bowls in the cabinets. Some were of color, some were not. That's it.

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (7D3Aa)

170 I'm a fan of Libs of Tiktok, but I could have done without the big picture of the SCOAMF.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (ZFOhy)

171 135 loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.

Christy, I know I shouldn't have, but I laughed when I read that! Thanks.
Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:31 PM (7D3Aa)

I don't know if she even realized she killed it. I was yanked out of that area by my mother toot sweet and don't remember if I got a baby chick.

I did get two duckies one Easter as there's a photo of todder me in pigtails with heart framed sunglasses talking to them in their yard. Daddy took the grown ducks (we were in the city) to his lake and I guess the foxes ate the poor things.

Apparently, from reading all this, I had very traumatic Easters and did not know til today.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:45 PM (WONhk)

172 I'm a fan of Libs of Tiktok, but I could have done without the big picture of the SCOAMF.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (ZFOhy)

Print it out and make a dartboard of it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

173 Doof, The AOSHQ cookbook, The Deplorable Gourmet, has a recipe for German potato salad. Check index for JTB. Delicious.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 02, 2026 10:47 PM (yTvNw)

174 I never really did the egg hunts and the Easter bunny stuff with my boys.

We went to Mass. we would have a nice brunch together afterwards and then a hike. When the oldest was in 7th grade we started going to Maui for Easter and spring break.

Easter Mass at Maria Lanakila in Lahaina was a treat. The school kids did an Easter hula and there were flowers everywhere.

The church is one of only a few structures that survived the fire.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 10:47 PM (A5RD0)

175 Astronauts giving heart hands

***face palm***

Can we go back to before social media was invented please

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 10:47 PM (REq0p)

176 Where is my woman?

youtube.com/watch?v=ZGT0P0XJRFM

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:48 PM (YvvFZ)

177 ProTip: Don't hide Easter Eggs in the clothes washer and dryer. Yes, you may get one over on your siblings when they fail to discover them, but your mom will be royally pissed about the mess in her now spoiled laundry run.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 02, 2026 10:48 PM (wVcYX)

178 Using AI to come up with new rules to a game might actually be fun.

So, CalvAIn Ball?

Posted by: GWB at April 02, 2026 10:48 PM (10ipE)

179 141:Good grief. I truly hope this is a joke. Please tell me people are not this retarded....


I have some bad news......

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 10:48 PM (ohOaC)

180 I'm a fan of Libs of Tiktok, but I could have done without the big picture of the SCOAMF.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:44 PM (ZFOhy)

Print it out and make a dartboard of it.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2026 10:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

Urinal target. Toilet target?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (S/Y4j)

181 Good evening Horde!

Wonderful ONT, DOOF.

That picture of the mom with three kids coloring Easter eggs--that was my childhood...

Posted by: Ladyl at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (D6+4s)

182
I remember the Easter Egg coloring kit where you dip it in a solution that looked like an oil slick and the egg came out looking like a tie dyed shirt.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg


That sounds like marbling, the process used to create fancy endpaper in bookbinding where the finished product has multiple colors brought together with a swirling appearance.

I'm not certain what chemicals are used in that process, though, and whether any egg so treated would be free of hazardous or distasteful residues on its shell.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (xG4kz)

183 Good night, Horde! Thanks again for the ONT, Doof.

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (7D3Aa)

184 Oh good lord. I just looked at the floor in that easter egg dying pic. Its the same floor that was here when I moved in. No wonder why I nuked the kitchen way ahead of schedule. Just seeing it again....damn.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Yes Bers I remember that floor too! It was sold for decades, 12 inch squares. I think it started off being sold by Sears, then moved to all of the flooring stores.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 10:34 PM (pFJNq)

Peel and stick squares ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:35 PM (/lPRQ)


No, mine was regular sheet. I think it was actually congoleum, which is a bit heavier I think. It was the original floor done in 1982. It was some thick shit . But yeah they did seem to make that pattern for awhile because when I was doing kitchens I saw it a lot in the early 80's. For all I know they still make it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 10:50 PM (snZF9)

185 Urinal target. Toilet target?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (S/Y4j)

Either or.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 02, 2026 10:50 PM (1Ff7Z)

186 My Pyrex pie plates are clear glass. Pure

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 10:51 PM (YvvFZ)

187 And, that quotation should have been Lubrications 10:40.
Any Luberan could tell you that.

Posted by: GWB at April 02, 2026 10:52 PM (10ipE)

188 My one sensible Democrat friend told me he went to the No Kings rally. If anyone, Biden was an authoritarian, lawless Monarch. Trump has not even defied a single, stupid judicial order.

West Side Story
"The Jets Song"

When you're a Dem
You're a Dem all the way
From your first cigarette
Till your last dying day.

etc.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 10:53 PM (tAhJv)

189 Every time we clean the coffee machine by running vinegar through it, I get a hankering for a hard-boiled egg.

Did you ever NOT find all the hidden eggs? Like, for a loooong time? Hahaha. I can think of twice that happened for us.
Posted by: JQ


Our Easter egg hunts were in our large, fenced-in back yard.

I recall one afternoon when our old dog, Lady, came trotting up with an Easter egg in her mouth. In August!

Not sure whether she got to eat it or we threw it out!

Posted by: mindful webworker - specialized in two-tone egg dying at April 02, 2026 10:53 PM (ByrUz)

190 I'm a fan of Libs of Tiktok, but I could have done without the big picture of the SCOAMF.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

I have POSD, Post Obama Stress Disorder.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:53 PM (ndZc7)

191
ProTip: Don't hide Easter Eggs in the clothes washer and dryer. Yes, you may get one over on your siblings when they fail to discover them, but your mom will be royally pissed about the mess in her now spoiled laundry run.
Posted by: Count de Monet


My late mother was fond of stashing slightly used facial tissues on her person -- in pockets and up her (long) sleeved garments.

When my sister and I were caring for her near the time of her passing, many was the time we missed getting one out of her clothing before putting a load through the washer. Facial tissue parts everywhere!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:54 PM (xG4kz)

192 The pic struck a real nostalgia chord for me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

193 This was also the egg hunt where a girl I did not know loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.

That is so sad, for both the chick and the little girl.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:36 PM (xG4kz)

Was her name Lenny?

Posted by: GWB at April 02, 2026 10:54 PM (10ipE)

194 141 Don't know if this is a Fools Day thing...
I read that PETA wants to have Easter potato day instead of Easter eggs...colored potatoes and all. Because the poor, put out hens.
Good grief. I truly hope this is a joke. Please tell me people are not this retarded.... 🤯

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (nbQfO)

People are pretty retarded. If I die before 60 I will call myself lucky.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 10:55 PM (syAfa)

195 facial recognition software… identified the Tennessee grandmother as the main suspect.

As I said before when this story was brought up, it wasn't AI that arrested her, jailed her, and charged her. It was people who thought artificial devices were smarter than actual intelligence.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Skynet, a little dab'll do ya. Use more only if you dare. at April 02, 2026 10:32 PM (ByrUz)


And now the city of Fargo is waiting for the inevitable lawsuit and big payout. Plus it may or may not have prompted the police chief to announce his swift retirement two weeks ago.

Posted by: Vendette at April 02, 2026 10:56 PM (zQJ1T)

196
No, mine was regular sheet. I think it was actually congoleum, which is a bit heavier I think. It was the original floor done in 1982. It was some thick shit . But yeah they did seem to make that pattern for awhile because when I was doing kitchens I saw it a lot in the early 80's. For all I know they still make it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


The linoleum on the floor of the kitchen at our place in Sussex was that pattern or one very close to it. We buried it under a new subfloor and brighter linoleum about a decade ago.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:57 PM (xG4kz)

197 I need to go get Easter Basket stuff tomorrow. I am pretty late with it this year - we do other things besides candy. Bath bombs, face masks, hair pretties. But there has to be a dark chocolate bunny or there will be mutiny.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 10:58 PM (OoFl2)

198
Was that Trace Gallagher doing the interview with the Orion crew?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 10:58 PM (w6EFb)

199 Speaking of Artemis 2, I'm still chuckling over the CNN interview of a kid at the launch.

https://is.gd/LXU49u

Not the Bee: This kid gave the best answer imaginable when CNN asked why he's excited about the moon mission

I see a future aerospace engineer or astronaut here.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)

200 See...for fed.gov AI to be ACCURATE it needs ALL YOUR DATA. Who cares about your privacy when the future of the children is at stake?!? Think of the children! It's for THE CHILDREN!!! Screw your property rights. We need that land for a data center to store ALL of your data. Think of THE CHILDREN, you selfish bastards!!! Your government overlords know better than you, so go ask AI for a wing recipe then go have a beer and watch the game. Nothing for YOU to see here.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:00 PM (3l3tF)

201 So you guys raggin' on that kitchen floor...
That is exactly my kitchen floor🤪
I'm gonna keep it. In the not to distant future, I expect it to be a collector item, and I'll make BIG money!
...or not. I really don't care. It's only a floor, and my house is way old. I got bigger stuff to worry about...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:01 PM (nbQfO)

202 Stephen Colbert concluded his interview with Meryl Streep by inviting her to talk about whatever she wants and she went for the voter suppression fearmongering, "the SAVE America Act, if that passes, all the married women that have changed their names are going to have to go to the registrar and prove that they are who they are. In other words, to your voting registrar, this is what I understand. Otherwise when you get to the voting booth in November, you might be disqualified because your name on your birth certificate doesn't match your name on the voting rolls."

-
What do we got to do to keep the retards out?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 11:01 PM (ndZc7)

203
I read that PETA wants to have Easter potato day instead of Easter eggs...colored potatoes and all.


One bright side -- you can use the colored potatoes in a potato gun and go around shooting PETA members in the ass.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 11:01 PM (xG4kz)

204 However, my voice is trashed. I'll probably be croaking like a frog tomorrow.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:02 PM (BI5O2)

205 I see a future aerospace engineer or astronaut here.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 11:00 PM (S/Y4j)

That kid cracked me up. It is fucking cool to go the moon. And CNN can fuck right off.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 11:02 PM (syAfa)

206 COMM@201--

:fistbump:

I don't have that pattern, but one that's equally old. Yep, bigger stuff to worry about, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 11:03 PM (rdVOm)

207 I'm beginning to think all y'all aren't really 29."

Really?

FWIW, Mrs. is a Fiesta Queen. We've got...200 pieces?
And yes, she's from WV...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:03 PM (XuXeR)

208 Great way to ruin a perfectly good hard boiled egg.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 11:04 PM (BT3km)

209 Local news about the ai grannie arrest

https://tinyurl.com/48hkfw83

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 11:04 PM (tcsrY)

210 My current house has a slab on grade with ceramic tile. Nasty.

I'd rather have linoleum or sheet vinyl.
A little spic-n-span or mop-n-glow and is good-to-go.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)

211 Great way to ruin a perfectly good hard boiled egg
_-_
You COOK them?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:05 PM (3l3tF)

212 185 Urinal target. Toilet target?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 10:49 PM (S/Y4j)

Either or.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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TOTO – from toilets to chips since 1917

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:05 PM (YvvFZ)

213 169 some were of color...
Racist!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:05 PM (nbQfO)

214 I'd rather have linoleum or sheet vinyl.
A little spic-n-span or mop-n-glow and is good-to-go.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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If you can afford a maid you can afford ceramic tile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:06 PM (YvvFZ)

215 Some people cook eggs. Some drink them raw. Others chomp them down, shells and all, like a feral dog.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:07 PM (BI5O2)

216 Urinal target. Toilet target?

--

Speaking of target, I read that 11 No Kings protesters were arrested in a Target in KOP (Philly burb)
They were mad at Target for some reason

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (tcsrY)

217 If you can afford a maid you can afford ceramic tile.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than other

I do have an old chicken coop... if she works for room and board it can be done.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (/lPRQ)

218 The linoleum on the floor of the kitchen at our place in Sussex was that pattern or one very close to it. We buried it under a new subfloor and brighter linoleum about a decade ago.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:57 PM (xG4kz)

A lot of people did that. I know, I was the poor bastard that ended up putting down the new sub floor before we installed the new kitchen. The nightmare scenario back then was when the customer said they wanted to keep the floor they had. The problem is the industry changes every so often, and the toe kicks on really old kitchens weren't as deep, and the industry changed and started making base cabinets with a 1" deeper toe kick so you had more room for your feet. Well, now you have a 1 inch gap where the old floor don't meet the new deeper toe kicks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (snZF9)

219 ai grannie arrest
_-_
Law enforcement is so heavy-handed that they did not care to take the time to figure out if they were right. Jackbooted thugs, these.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (3l3tF)

220 mop-n-glow...
Mop-n-glo. And had to scrub that off...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (XuXeR)

221 Who remembers times like this?

Not I. Never did dye Easter eggs.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 11:08 PM (hJH5n)

222 I'm gonna keep it. In the not to distant future, I expect it to be a collector item, and I'll make BIG money!
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We have a Frigidaire pink electric cook top.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 11:09 PM (XeU6L)

223 Some people shoot them out of their hoo-has.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 11:09 PM (BT3km)

224 shoot them out of their hoo-has.
_-_
Who...huh?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:11 PM (3l3tF)

225 Apparently grannie languished in a TN jail for months and ND poeleece didnt know she was arrested
Poor grannie
Where was her family?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 11:11 PM (tcsrY)

226 Two Harvard University students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, developed a software application that pairs Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with artificial intelligence (AI) to identify strangers in real-time, accessing personal information such as names, phone numbers, and addresses.

Something tells me we need to bring back "Model Releases" for public areas.
Posted by: Orson
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Something tells me that we need a can of skunk spray and a punch in the nose for anyone using Meta glasses in a public place. Those guys are a half degree away from the upskirt assholes.
The glasses have to be great if your working on a utube DIY video.
Like guns, it's the user and not the tool

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 11:11 PM (DAQKj)

227 Seems like the chickens' cloacas will just be all the more sore squeezing out Easter potatoes.

Posted by: guy who might not fully understand how this all works at April 02, 2026 11:12 PM (PgtqW)

228 For Easter, we always received either a kite or a balsa wood glider. Nice memories

Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2026 11:12 PM (hRGul)

229 Poor grannie
Where was her family?
Posted by: vmom deport
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Next level grannie dumping.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 11:12 PM (XeU6L)

230 shoot them out of their hoo-has.
_-_
Who...huh?
Posted by: Don in SoCo
===

That would be West Virginia, Thailand, and South Korea (shortly after the war).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:13 PM (/lPRQ)

231 Linoleum isn't the problem. LVT is the new version of it. The problem with those old linoleum floors is the asbestos undercoating, which requires horrendously expensive remediation.

We still use the exact same product in a different application and form factor in homes across America today.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:13 PM (BI5O2)

232 Yeah, we seem to automate the wrong things.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:13 PM (3l3tF)

233 Those aren’t eggs, ping-pong balls. And …. darts. Some real sharpshooters, those gals, let me tell ya.

Posted by: Really at April 02, 2026 11:14 PM (q/G6k)

234 Evening, Doof and ONT Horde!

Staying at a friend's place in Squamish, BC. This will be the terminus of a new LNG pipeline, now being built. (seaport, you know)

The enshittification of coastal BC proceeds apace. Can't wait to see the coast in my rearview mirrors.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:15 PM (nNdlS)

235 My current house has a slab on grade with ceramic tile. Nasty.

I'd rather have linoleum or sheet vinyl.
A little spic-n-span or mop-n-glow and is good-to-go.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:05 PM (/lPRQ)

I almost did ceramic in this kitchen, but with the larger tiles. I put ceramic in the last house, and mrs B said no more frigging grout to clean, so I did that luxury vinyl plank. I used the SPC (stone plastic core) type with the rubber backing, no wood core, not in a kitchen where water is involved. Best move I ever did in a kitchen. They really don't use ceramic much anymore in a kitchen. The vinyl plank can be laid down over anything.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:16 PM (snZF9)

236 sharpshooters, those gals, let me tell ya.
_-_
Somebody's been watchin' the wrong channels on that there internet thing. Outside, all of ya!
And leave those phones in the house!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:16 PM (3l3tF)

237 Linoleum isn't the problem. LVT is the new version of it. The problem with those old linoleum floors is the asbestos undercoating, which requires horrendously expensive remediation.

We still use the exact same product in a different application and form factor in homes across America today.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Done some work* in new hospitals.
A lot a sheet vinyl. Full depth color. Fused seams, radius mopboards. Easy to clean.

*work == pushing paper.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (/lPRQ)

238 Good lord. Just saw on X that Macron has declared that the only way to open the Straits of Hormuz is to surrender to Iran immediately.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (pFJNq)

239 surrender to Iran immediately.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (pFJNq)
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I mean, who knows more about the topic of surrendering?

Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2026 11:19 PM (Giz+5)

240 222 We have a Frigidaire pink electric cook top.

See?! You get it🤪! YOU'LL make big money too...or not...
If it works, keep it. That old stuff tends to outlast any of the new stuff...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:21 PM (nbQfO)

241 Using AI to come up with new rules to a game might actually be fun. Got any ideas??

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Am I the first to suggest Naked Twister?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 02, 2026 11:21 PM (JkO4W)

242 Halloween: throw eggs.
Easter: paint them first.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 11:21 PM (BT3km)

243 For more than a year, Pam Bondi violated the norms of independence expected from a U.S. attorney general and forced Department of Justice attorneys to do the bidding of President Donald Trump.

Yet Bondi's loyalty to Trump and her willingness to turn the DoJ into a weapon of retribution against his political enemies weren't enough to satisfy the president. ...
--

Unmitigated crap. These people are out of their minds.
_.cbc.ca/ news/world/ why-trump-fired-pam

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (YvvFZ)

244 Wait until JudasAI gets a pattern of your face. Your last supper may be coming sooner than you think.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (UqSya)

245 Am I the first to suggest Naked Twister?
Posted by: Cicero


You can check pr0nhub, but my Magic 8-ball says "yeah, right."

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (VHUov)

246 239 surrender to Iran immediately.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (pFJNq)
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I mean, who knows more about the topic of surrendering?
Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2026 11:19 PM (Giz+5)

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Just show us where we need to throw our guns.

Posted by: The Grand Armee du France at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (JkO4W)

247 I almost did ceramic in this kitchen, but with the larger tiles. I put ceramic in the last house, and mrs B said no more frigging grout to clean, so I did that luxury vinyl plank. I used the SPC (stone plastic core) type with the rubber backing, no wood core, not in a kitchen where water is involved. Best move I ever did in a kitchen. They really don't use ceramic much anymore in a kitchen. The vinyl plank can be laid down over anything.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


Large tile is really really hard to get flat.
And sloped for a floor drain, if you have to do that too, is impossible.

Soon I will be retired and start reworking the house and have been eyeballing the vinyl planks for the kitchens and baths.


Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

248 old stuff tends to outlast any of the new stuff...
_-_
We were running through a new washing machine every year for a while (6 children) 'til we found a plainjane heavy duty Speed Queen...still not as solid as the older ones, but less stuff to break.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:24 PM (3l3tF)

249 DodgeJarts would be a good game.

Posted by: Wally at April 02, 2026 11:24 PM (zG4BR)

250 227

IKR?! I never had a hen lay a potato. But, with AI, who can know what's possible🐓?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:25 PM (nbQfO)

251 Did you see the chem trail Artemis spayed upon the people of Florida? They will never be the same.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:26 PM (YvvFZ)

252 I hope grannie ends up owning Fargo

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 11:26 PM (tcsrY)

253 As kids we got nothing for Easter. But at least I didn't kill a baby chick.

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 11:27 PM (pvf3X)

254 251 Did you see the chem trail Artemis spayed upon the people of Florida? They will never be the same.

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The joke's on you. Florida Man and Woman were never the same to start with.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 02, 2026 11:28 PM (+HNx/)

255
I believe it was Fiestaware that used a glaze containing uranium.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 11:28 PM (azNOR)

256 Good lord. Just saw on X that Macron has declared that the only way to open the Straits of Hormuz is to surrender to Iran immediately.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (pFJNq)

Quelle surprise! Cheese eating Surrender Monkeys are always on my Bingo card.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 11:29 PM (syAfa)

257 "I hope Grannie ends up owning Fargo."

What will a woman that age do with all those meth labs?

Posted by: Wally at April 02, 2026 11:29 PM (zG4BR)

258 Off to bed. Night!

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 11:29 PM (pZEOD)

259 Did you see the chem trail Artemis spayed upon the people of Florida? They will never be the same.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others


Wifey got a spot on the NASA causeway.
I walked out to the end of the driveway to watch.

Both of us have had boils oozing thick yellow puss starting that night...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:29 PM (/lPRQ)

260 Florida Man and Woman
_-_
Yeah, but, let me tell ya...lived in the DC area for while...never seen more strange than there!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:29 PM (3l3tF)

261 I believe it was Fiestaware that used a glaze containing uranium.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug


The good stuff used cobalt blue.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:30 PM (/lPRQ)

262 I have never liked easter candy. It's like chewing a brown chunk of sugary wax. I'll take a hard-boiled egg if you please.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 11:31 PM (UqSya)

263 Just saw more interesting news, especially in light of the Iranian situation. Today Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff and two top Generals who appear to have been allies of his. No real explanation has been given.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:32 PM (pFJNq)

264 255
I believe it was Fiestaware that used a glaze containing uranium.
****

1936 thru 1972. Uranium oxide. Low level if intact.

Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 11:32 PM (R9n3z)

265 Did you see the chem trail Artemis spayed upon the people of Florida? They will never be the same.
......

Pretty sure that was the leaky toilet.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 11:33 PM (BT3km)

266 261 I believe it was Fiestaware that used a glaze containing uranium
_-_
When we got a Geiger counter , I checked out ours...yep, orange one made the thing click along nicely...still have the others...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:33 PM (3l3tF)

267 Large tile is really really hard to get flat.
And sloped for a floor drain, if you have to do that too, is impossible.

Soon I will be retired and start reworking the house and have been eyeballing the vinyl planks for the kitchens and baths.


Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:23 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah you're not doing large tiles with a slope towards a drain. The vinyl plank is great for kitchens and regular flat floors. I used it in the one half bath and its great. I'm most likely going to use ceramic on top of hardy backer in the other 2 full baths for max water protection. Don't skimp on the vinyl plank floor, get the good shit. The $5-6 a sq ft stuff from one of the good companies, not the $1 sq ft crap. You want SPC. You can drop it in water, come back 20 years later and its still good. The wear layer is way thicker too.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:33 PM (snZF9)

268 262 I have never liked easter candy. It's like chewing a brown chunk of sugary wax. I'll take a hard-boiled egg if you please.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 11:31 PM (UqSya)

Counter:

Cadbury Creme Egg.

Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 11:33 PM (bss/y)

269 Have you tried Chinese-made Roentgenware? It's supposed to have a half-life of 10,000 years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 02, 2026 11:34 PM (+HNx/)

270 231 Linoleum isn't the problem. LVT is the new version of it. The problem with those old linoleum floors is the asbestos undercoating, which requires horrendously expensive remediation.

I learned many years after I bought my house that a bunch of possibly qualified drunks built it. I seriously doubt they gave an actual f*ck about the undercoating. Just getting the floor done was probably huge. BEER!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:35 PM (nbQfO)

271 Chinese-made Roentgenware
_-_
Heh. Things that last!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:35 PM (3l3tF)

272 Dying the easter eggs. I remember that shit. We still do it, but its changed. Used to be hot water, now you use cold water, and the colors don't seem right. They ruin everything.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 10:09 PM (snZF9)

I use McCormick liquid food coloring. Still uses hot water and a teaspoon of vinegar, but you can regulated the intensity of the color by the number of drops used. Also, many other colors can be made by mixing the basic colors by certain volumes. Much better than those Paz tablets. Been using the liquid dyes since the 70's.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 02, 2026 11:36 PM (5xuJ/)

273 If you have any Peeps left next Monday, they make very good catfish bait. Stays on hook well, too.

Posted by: Gadabout Gaddis, The Flying Fisherman. at April 02, 2026 11:38 PM (oY1HT)

274 The only Easter candy I really like are the little malted milk Easter eggs. Those things I just love!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:38 PM (pFJNq)

275 The only Easter candy I really like are the little malted milk Easter eggs. Those things I just love!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:38 PM (pFJNq)

I could eat myself into a coma with those things.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:40 PM (snZF9)

276 Just saw more interesting news, especially in light of the Iranian situation. Today Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff and two top Generals who appear to have been allies of his. No real explanation has been given.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:32 PM (pFJNq)

Maybe not Iran, chatter on the webs is that the Army Chief was in a chopping block for a while. He was a Bidet appointee, Austin's aide and big Covid enforcer. The other two, probably along the same lines.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 11:40 PM (GD0B3)

277 Just saw more interesting news, especially in light of the Iranian situation. Today Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff and two top Generals who appear to have been allies of his. No real explanation has been given.
Posted by: Tom Servo


Maybe they failed the PT test.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:42 PM (/lPRQ)

278 Done some work in new hospitals.
A lot a sheet vinyl. Full depth color. Fused seams, radius mopboards. Easy to clean.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:17 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah, the hospitals use vinyl sheets on the wards.

But in the new ones, on the first floor, they do these epoxy terrazzo jobs that are just beautiful.

I wish they would do cement terrazzo, though. Just for old times' sake.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:42 PM (BI5O2)

279 257 "I hope Grannie ends up owning Fargo."

What will a woman that age do with all those meth labs?
Posted by: Wally



She'll watch the documentary 'Breaking Bad' to prepare.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 11:42 PM (ohOaC)

280 272 Dying the easter eggs. I remember that shit. We still do it, but its changed. Used to be hot water, now you use cold water, and the colors don't seem right. They ruin everything.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
--------

Fried some green shrimp that way. Offered to share but had most of them to myself.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:44 PM (YvvFZ)

281 Cadbury and Reese’s both started using inferior ingredients a few years ago. Now most commercial large scale candies suck. Waxy and fake and too sweet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 11:47 PM (A5RD0)

282 The only Easter candy I really like are the little malted milk Easter eggs. Those things I just love!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 11:38 PM (pFJNq)

I could eat myself into a coma with those things.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

I am hoping the have a bunch leftover for the after Easter clearance sale.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:48 PM (/lPRQ)

283 Hi everyone, happy pre-weekend to you all.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 02, 2026 11:48 PM (CHHv1)

284 AI granny arrest-
When asked why he had not directly apologized to Lipps, Zibolski said the investigation is still active and the full scope of who was involved in the fraud scheme has not been determined.
-----
Bullshit. The city lawyers told him not to.
"Never admit to anything" is the standard for a defendant in any court case.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 11:48 PM (DAQKj)

285 Why doesn't anyone do a real terrazzo anymore? It's aways a tile or a poured plastic now. Boo.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:49 PM (BI5O2)

286 Cadbury and Reese’s both started using inferior ingredients a few years ago. Now most commercial large scale candies suck. Waxy and fake and too sweet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 11:47 PM (A5RD0)

Hershey says they're going to return to the original Reeses recipe. Maybe there's hope.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:50 PM (snZF9)

287 DDG, Search Assist:

On April 1, 2026, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth requested the immediate retirement of Army Chief of Staff General Randy George. This decision is part of a larger leadership shakeup within the Pentagon amid the ongoing conflict in Iran.

Details of the Leadership Shakeup
General Randy George: Asked to step down as Army Chief of Staff.
Reason for Change: Hegseth is seeking leaders who align with his and former President Trump's vision for the Army.

Trump ought scrap them.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:50 PM (YvvFZ)

288 JQ
Are you tending bar tonight? I'll have a Bud Light...yeah...
No. Kidding.Does anyone even order those, other than...THOSE people?

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:50 PM (nbQfO)

289 Saltillo tile here. I want a margarita every time I clear the room. You better have a maid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:52 PM (YvvFZ)

290
25 degrees here in SW Wyoming. Last week we had 70's.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:53 PM (3ek7K)

291
I'm impressed. Back in the 2000s, Lunar Laser Ranging could determine the position of the Moon's center of mass relative to earth at about 2 cm, that's centimeters of precision. The Moon was shown to be within 2cm of where General Relativity says it should be (Mr. Newton alone would be about 10s of meters off over time -- not much, but still no cigar).

Well, as of now, they've got that down to 1mm basically. The Moon is within 1 mm of where Mr. Einstein's gravity says it should be.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

292 SW Wyoming
_-_
Do you get the wind like SE Wyoming?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 02, 2026 11:55 PM (3l3tF)

293
Hi Robert and BC!!

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:55 PM (3ek7K)

294 Haha, COMM. Haven't served a BudLight for many years.

But, that was back in the *before times*-- when a beer was just a fkn beer.

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (rdVOm)

295 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
@SecWar

Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones—leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed.

That ends today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (YvvFZ)

296
The wind is always blowing here.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)

297 The damned BC Ferry I rode on from Nanaim o to Horseshoe Bay had a friggin' land acknowledgement on the reader screen for the cafe menu. Sheesh! And every little creek from there up to Squamish along the highway had some made-up bullshit name in some made-up bullshit wagonburner dialect, with the real name below in smaller letters. Like this: Sk'wanamzama7nerkm (Deek's Creek)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (nNdlS)

298 Spuds MacKenzie was a whole lot cuter than that mulvaney dude!

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 11:57 PM (rdVOm)

299 Why doesn't anyone do a real terrazzo anymore? It's aways a tile or a poured plastic now. Boo.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Traditional terrazzo typically has the usual concrete floor, a two inch sand cushion, and two inches of white Portland cement terrazzo. So your structural floor has to be about four inches low.

Epoxy terrazzo typically can be as little as a quarter inch thick placed directly on the concrete floor... can be used in a remodel job w/o messing too much with floor elevations.

Both systems have similar grinding and polishing.

Had projects where they demo'd to the bone, and filled the old terrazzo floor with concrete and then went with a very nice epoxy terrazzo on top.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 11:58 PM (/lPRQ)

300 Ok pals. Always diggin' these fantastic ONTs, and of course the oh-so-lovely Horde💕! Good night good pals!

"Going to bed now to prevent tomorrow from starting too soon.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 02, 2026 11:58 PM (nbQfO)

301

Nebraska blows and Utah sucks so it's always windy here.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:58 PM (3ek7K)

302 Hello, fourseasons!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2026 12:00 AM (CHHv1)

303 Wyoming is even windier that the Texas panhandle.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 12:03 AM (3l3tF)

304
The house we sold in SC last year was built in the late 50's.

It had the original hardwood floors. They were gorgeous.

We never had to do anything to maintain them. Used a swifter on them.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:03 AM (3ek7K)

305

BC,

I hope you are behaving. I don't want Robert to be upset.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:04 AM (3ek7K)

306
ai grannie arrest
_-_
Law enforcement is so heavy-handed that they did not care to take the time to figure out if they were right. Jackbooted thugs, these.
Posted by: Don in SoCo

===============

I can't wait for the Netflix documentary.

Maybe Afroman will do her a solid and record a rap song about her.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 03, 2026 12:05 AM (n7rxJ)

307 We never had to do anything to maintain them. Used a swifter on them.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:03 AM (3ek7K)

I commanded a Swiffer Boat in Viet Nam. We totally wiped out the Viet Lint.

Posted by: Jawn Carry at April 03, 2026 12:06 AM (nNdlS)

308
Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:06 AM (3ek7K)

309 wagonburner dialect
_-_
Wow. I was hoping they were hardy, no-nonsense folk up there. That's kinda sad but entertaining in the way you describe it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 12:06 AM (3l3tF)

310 The house we sold in SC last year was built in the late 50's.
It had the original hardwood floors. They were gorgeous.
We never had to do anything to maintain them. Used a swifter on them.

Posted by: fourseasons


Might be a static charge thing - tile tends to attract and suck in greasy dirt and hair.

Wood seems to make light fluffy dust bunnies that roll under the couches and beds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 12:08 AM (/lPRQ)

311 304
The house we sold in SC last year was built in the late 50's.

It had the original hardwood floors. They were gorgeous.

We never had to do anything to maintain them. Used a swifter on them.

Posted by: fourseasons
--

Oak is the mighty wood. There is no substitute.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:10 AM (YvvFZ)

312
We had snow today. It's just covering the grass.

First snow since last winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:11 AM (3ek7K)

313 original hardwood floor
tile
Wood
As long as it's not carpet. I hate that stuff. Can't ever really get it clean.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 12:11 AM (3l3tF)

314
I hate carpet.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:12 AM (3ek7K)

315 light fluffy dust bunnies that roll under the couches and beds.
_-_
Sweep 'em all into the corner then get out the shop vac.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 12:13 AM (3l3tF)

316 @305 - don't worry, he is plotting my death with no let or hindrance.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2026 12:13 AM (CHHv1)

317
Lol BC

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:14 AM (3ek7K)

318 We had snow today. It's just covering the grass.

First snow since last winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:11 AM (3ek7K)

Rained a little today here. All the nearby mountains are snow-capped yet. I saw carloads of skiers from Washington and California bound for Whistler Mountain.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:14 AM (nNdlS)

319 I commanded a Swiffer Boat in Viet Nam. We totally wiped out the Viet Lint.
Posted by: Jawn Carry
---

Trained a 'real' warrant officer who did a full tour with no casualties. (they did their duty too).
Navy put him and his crew on a carrier in charge of cafeteria duty for their next tour.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:14 AM (YvvFZ)

320
AOP,

I have enjoyed reading about your travels on this trip.

You have seen some neat stuff.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)

321 Just fired up 2 of our 3 wood stoves for the first time in several weeks. March was kinda backward here this year.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 12:17 AM (3l3tF)

322 296
The wind is always blowing here.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)

Do you call it Mariah?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 03, 2026 12:17 AM (pFJNq)

323 Navy put him and his crew on a carrier in charge of cafeteria duty for their next tour.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:14 AM (YvvFZ)

I guess one could regard that as a reward?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:18 AM (nNdlS)

324 I never colored eggs with my Mom and my brothers, she was into a more religious celebration of Easter, didn't ascribe to the eggs and baskets and bunny theory. I always had to wear a nice dress though, with ankle socks and black patent leather shoes, plus an ill-fitting new hat that was affixed to my head with a most uncomfortable elastic strap under my chin. I did the exact opposite with my kids, lots of candy, toys and casual dress if we could get away with it. We flew those little balsa planes all over the place for hours, I had several extras for parts.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 12:18 AM (0nHVk)

325

Don,

Winter has been weird this year. We've grilled a lot which is unheard of here in winter.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:19 AM (3ek7K)

326
Lol Tom

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:20 AM (3ek7K)

327 Two whole days and no-one mentioned "Ship Of Fools" by The Doors

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 03, 2026 12:20 AM (3/XaG)

328 You have seen some neat stuff.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:16 AM (3ek7K)

Did not see any Orcas from the ferry. Did see about a dozen large cargo ships at anchor in Burrard Inlet, awaiting berths in the port of Vancouver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:21 AM (nNdlS)

329 We usually got new clothes for Easter-- to look presentable at Sunday Church. Plus new white cotton gloves for the girls.

We got the *whole thing* really. Church plus chocolates, egg hunt, bunny motif stuff.

Can't complain.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 12:22 AM (rdVOm)

330 loved a baby chick so much she accidently (I think) killed it.

Did she call it George?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 03, 2026 12:22 AM (tPQMP)

331
Azjaeger,

That's the nickname for Ace's commenters, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:22 AM (3ek7K)

332 https://youtu.be/DYY5jFnkX5g

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 12:26 AM (rdVOm)

333 Here's a fool song performed by Ry Cooder:

https://youtu.be/e29mjhgCvhg

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:27 AM (nNdlS)

334 I guess one could regard that as a reward?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

Versus getting your ass shot off up river I think so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:28 AM (YvvFZ)

335
JQ,

Easter was new church clothes for church and Christmas for new regular clothes.

There five of us and my parents didn't have much money. We didn't know any different.

Kids today are spoiled.


Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:28 AM (3ek7K)

336
More comedic malfunctions on Orion. Christina just reported some potable water dispenser valve keeps pissing out a stream for a few seconds after she closes the valve.

She had to describe stream width and estimate flow rate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)

337 Kids today are spoiled.
Posted by: fourseasons
---------

Seems like it! One of my brothers started really late, so has a 10yr old. Bro hasn't got a pot or a window, but absolutely *showers* that kid with gifts. All the time!

Talk about bratty, whiney, spoiled... ugh.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 12:34 AM (rdVOm)

338 296
The wind is always blowing here.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 11:56 PM (3ek7K)
-------
Sure is breezy over here too!

Posted by: 496 at April 03, 2026 12:35 AM (hkB4p)

339
publius,

Is it the air pressure or were the systems not properly tested before launching.

Hubby and I can't figure out what is going on.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:35 AM (3ek7K)

340 July 18, 2022

Gas prices could soon drop to $4.00 a gallon, Biden energy adviser says.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:35 AM (YvvFZ)

341 Evening.

I'm so pissed.

Company I work for switched insurance to some company I never heard of.

Thought things were fine. Went to my regular doctor's office a few weeks ago, no problem. Had an appointment for Monday to talk about my recent problems with my gout. Got a call at four this afternoon saying "Sorry, we don't take that insurance any more."

Now I'm scrambling to find a new place, but I'm not sure who is in their network cuz this company is fucking retarded and their website fucking sucks.

What a bunch of shit, man.

Posted by: Robert at April 03, 2026 12:36 AM (dpXJq)

342
496,

Well you are Nebraska adjacent, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:36 AM (3ek7K)

343 She had to describe stream width and estimate flow rate.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)

(Bones McCoy voice) "I'm an astronaut, Captain, not a urologist!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:37 AM (nNdlS)

344
Robert,

It is a bunch of shit.

Being a negative Nelly i think it's going to get worse.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:39 AM (3ek7K)

345 Today Hegseth fired the Army Chief of Staff and two top Generals who appear to have been allies of his. No real explanation has been given.
Posted by: Tom Servo
-------
"I didn't get a harrumph out of you!"

Posted by: 496 at April 03, 2026 12:39 AM (kZ3dQ)

346 Did not see any Orcas from the ferry. Did see about a dozen large cargo ships at anchor in Burrard Inlet, awaiting berths in the port of Vancouver.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----
I've ridden almost every ferry in the area - Black Ball, Tsawwassen, Nanimo, the WA State ferries to the San Juan Islands, to Bainbridge, Vashon, etc,etc,etc, and I've never seen an Orca from any of them.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 03, 2026 12:39 AM (DAQKj)

347 Being a negative Nelly i think it's going to get worse.
Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:39 AM (3ek7K)

Yeah, probably. The company I work for fucking sucks. I don't think I'll be with them much longer.

Posted by: Robert at April 03, 2026 12:41 AM (dpXJq)

348 I've ridden almost every ferry in the area - Black Ball, Tsawwassen, Nanimo, the WA State ferries to the San Juan Islands, to Bainbridge, Vashon, etc,etc,etc, and I've never seen an Orca from any of them.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 03, 2026 12:39 AM (DAQKj)

I was not expecting to see any. Maybe a seal or two. Nope.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:41 AM (nNdlS)

349 Well you are Nebraska adjacent, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:36 AM (3ek7K)
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Hah - was that nice of you to say?

Posted by: 496 at April 03, 2026 12:42 AM (kZ3dQ)

350
AOP,

Did you see any whales on the ferry, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

351 The house we sold in SC last year was built in the late 50's.

It had the original hardwood floors. They were gorgeous.

We never had to do anything to maintain them. Used a swifter on them.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:03 AM (3ek7K)

I'm a big believer in those floors. My last house had them because it too was built in the 50's. It had gotten an addition before I got there, and that room didn't have them, so I put one in. The house here has them, and if it didn't hell yeah I would put them in. They are forever.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 12:42 AM (snZF9)

352 Orion's loop around the Moon is not technically an orbit, is it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:43 AM (nNdlS)

353
496,

Probably not, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:43 AM (3ek7K)

354 from @nytimes: Trump aides gutted some offices that worked to counter anti-American disinformation by foreign powers. Now the US finds itself embattled in an info war with Iran, Russia and China. The State Dept. tells diplomats to use X and work with Pentagon psyops teams.
_Edward Wong
@ewong
==
You pushed the fake news story that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.

It wasn’t.

The gutted offices you now want back were pushing fake news to you and your colleagues.

They needed to go.
_Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 12:44 AM (YvvFZ)

355 Did you see any whales on the ferry, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:42 AM (3ek7K)

Not hardly any. Some moderately fat folks, but no real land whales.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:46 AM (nNdlS)

356 >> Is it the air pressure or were the systems not properly tested before launching.

This the first real-world flight test of the life support systems on the thing. And this is some ridicuously complicated system with no telling how many "moving parts". These little glitches are expected to some extent.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

357
Berserker,

The floors were awesome. We lived there almost 20 years and never had to have them redone.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:46 AM (3ek7K)

358 >> Orion's loop around the Moon is not technically an orbit, is it?

Not a lunar orbit, really. It's a crazy sort of figure 8 earth-moon system orbit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:47 AM (w6EFb)

359
Another glitch was somebody on the ground in the comms unit had a bright idea about a trick to increase data download rates. His little trick messed up the voice link for a while.

And Christina filmed the water valve stream. It's stuff like that they want to download.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

360 Kids today are spoiled.

You misspelled "stupid."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2026 12:50 AM (CHHv1)

361
BC,

Yes, that too.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:51 AM (3ek7K)

362 Are we there yet?

Posted by: Astronaut sitting in the back seat at April 03, 2026 12:51 AM (w/O5Q)

363 And Christina filmed the water valve stream. It's stuff like that they want to download.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:49 AM (w6EFb)

A piece of Tygon tubing and a pinchcock would have been too simple, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 12:51 AM (nNdlS)

364
from @nytimes: Trump aides gutted some offices that worked to counter anti-American disinformation by foreign powers. Now the US finds itself embattled in an info war with Iran, Russia and China.
_Edward Wong
@ewong

================

Definite case of the NY Times being pissed off that they can't add to the efforts of Iran, Russia and China.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 03, 2026 12:52 AM (n7rxJ)

365 Gosh Braenyard, I love your links.

Hi BC, fourseasons and Robert, good to see you all.

JQ and Bers, I am used to having you guys around at this hour, Happy Thursday.

Thirsty Thursday as it turns out, I may exit suddenly. I am kind of sort of happy tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 12:52 AM (0nHVk)

366

All the space stuff is amazing to me. I was like a kid yesterday waiting to see the blastoff.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:53 AM (3ek7K)

367 Berserker,

The floors were awesome. We lived there almost 20 years and never had to have them redone.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:46 AM (3ek7K)

Yeah they last. My friend was a floor refinish guy, so I called him him to refinish them, because the chucklehead I got the house from had wall to wall yellow shag rug (gag) which I literally tore out on day 1. Floors weren't bad because it had rug over them for years, but they were stained in a few spots from shampooing. He did a beautiful job, they lasted 30 years, During this last move I had him come in again and redo them when I listed the house. Poor guy, he was 35 when he did them the first time, and he was 65 when he did them the second time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 12:54 AM (snZF9)

368 A piece of Tygon tubing and a pinchcock would have been too simple, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


How are they supposed to get six-figure kickbacks from Lockheed for that?

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2026 12:54 AM (VHUov)

369
Debby, it's great to see you.

I'm happy tonight also,lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:55 AM (3ek7K)

370
Now there's a report on window inspection. They've noticed some "blemishes", "little streaks" and maybe "charring" on the window panes. They think it may be due to some of the waste water dumps. Could be something from the reaction control rockets.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

371
They must look like my windows.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 12:58 AM (3ek7K)

372 JQ and Bers, I am used to having you guys around at this hour, Happy Thursday.

Thirsty Thursday as it turns out, I may exit suddenly. I am kind of sort of happy tonight.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 12:52 AM (0nHVk)

So...like extra happy to where you're gonna leave suddenly when you pass out? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:00 AM (snZF9)

373 I thought they stopped using "blast off" and replaced it with "lift off." "Blast" made people think of explosion.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2026 01:00 AM (Cqx++)

374
Bertram,

I thought about that after I posted.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:01 AM (3ek7K)

375 Thirsty Thursday as it turns out, I may exit suddenly. I am kind of sort of happy tonight.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

So...like extra happy to where you're gonna leave suddenly when you pass out? lol
Posted by: Berserker
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Hah! That's what I was thinking, too!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:02 AM (rdVOm)

376 A piece of Tygon tubing and a pinchcock would have been too simple, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I don't know why the plumbing industry is fascinated with cock. Ballcock, pinchcock...whats next, burncock? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:03 AM (snZF9)

377 Glad you're feeling happy tonight, Debby! Sure must be a load off your shoulders, now that bro is in a safe place and you're not *on alert* all the time anymore.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:03 AM (rdVOm)

378
Lol

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:03 AM (3ek7K)

379 Draincock...

LOL

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)

380 Draincock...

LOL

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:04 AM (rdVOm)


lol, you see???

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:05 AM (snZF9)

381

JQ,

If they are working properly they will drain, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:05 AM (3ek7K)

382 Petcock!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:05 AM (rdVOm)

383 @335 four seasons

Same way at my house. Put on the church suits, go to church, come home, hang up the suits, got into the old clothes, had lunch, went outside for the rest of the day, weather permitting. Same routine every Sunday. Easter was not some big deal kid holiday. The other kids in the neighborhood got the baskets and candy but I guess my parents had to draw the line somewhere.

Posted by: Case at April 03, 2026 01:06 AM (pvf3X)

384 Well yeah, of course, had a few wines with my neighbor tonight, we had a lot of fun. She goes to bed and I go home and decide that posting on the web is a good idea. I should be arrested sometimes.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:06 AM (0nHVk)

385 Woo woo! Petcock...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

386
According to the internet, "blast off" has always been colloquial, and never was officially used.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

387

Case,

Yep. We didn't know any different.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:07 AM (3ek7K)

388 >>I should be arrested sometimes.
Posted by: Debby
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For what? WWI? Walking while intoxicated. Heh.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:08 AM (rdVOm)

389 Thought things were fine. Went to my regular doctor's office a few weeks ago, no problem. Had an appointment for Monday to talk about my recent problems with my gout. Got a call at four this afternoon saying "Sorry, we don't take that insurance any more."

Now I'm scrambling to find a new place, but I'm not sure who is in their network cuz this company is fucking retarded and their website fucking sucks.

What a bunch of shit, man.
Posted by: Robert
===

Gout every three months?
Doc in a box for some Prednisone. Shot in the ass, a small you can most for later...

Every month or so... script for purinol.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 01:08 AM (/lPRQ)

390 I hope its warm tomorrow. I have to pick that bike up and ride it home. 50 mile ride, and a lot of it highway. If its not in the mid 60's like they're claiming I'm not doing it. It needs tires too, they are old. I gotta be out of my mind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:08 AM (snZF9)

391 Bers, you've got a truck.. put that bike in the back if it's too cold.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

392
They have now exceeded 44,000 miles from earth, which beats there HEO apogee before TLI.

They are now farther from earth than any humans since Apollo 17. Yesterday, the broke that since-Apollo record pretty soon. Now, they've broken that again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:11 AM (w6EFb)

393
Berserker,

I hope it goes well.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:11 AM (3ek7K)

394 Woo woo! Petcock...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:06 AM (rdVOm)

yup, lol. Thats what we call the gas shutoff on the bikes. I had a dude come into the shop I was at back in the 90's. I knew him pretty good. He needed a new gas shutoff for the gas tank. He says hey I need a petcock. I said why don't you just get a fucking dog? lolol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:11 AM (snZF9)

395 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 03, 2026 01:13 AM (SRRAx)

396 Just for the record I do not walk well when intoxicated, need mucho support. When hubs was sick and intoxicated it was a community effort to get him home, I am not as high maintenance.

JQ, loved the Gene Autry vid, that is what I remember from Easter.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

397 Well, I am getting real sleepy. Going to sack out for the night.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 01:13 AM (nNdlS)

398 'Night. AOP

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:14 AM (rdVOm)

399 'Night AOP, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:16 AM (0nHVk)

400 >> loved the Gene Autry vid, that is what I remember from Easter.

Posted by: Debby
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Mom had one of those old suitcase record players and a bunch of 78rpm records. "Peter Cottontail" was one of them. I think the record was yellow, maybe red...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

401 Bers, you've got a truck.. put that bike in the back if it's too cold.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:10 AM (rdVOm)

I have a chevy colorado. Thats not a truck, thats a skateboard with a cookie tin hanging off the back. It won't fit. The bike is 7feet long, the bed is 6. I could do it if I lower the tailgate, put the bike in on an angle, and have the rear tire on the gate, and thats probably not a good idea for a 650lb bike. the dude was going to deliver it. We loaded it into his enclosed trailer, we got 1/4 mile away and his truck wouldn't shift going up the first hill, so we had to turn around.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:18 AM (snZF9)

402 First car had two petcocks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:20 AM (YvvFZ)

403 Just for the record I do not walk well when intoxicated, need mucho support. When hubs was sick and intoxicated it was a community effort to get him home, I am not as high maintenance.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:13 AM (0nHVk)

You did pretty good at the MoMe.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:20 AM (snZF9)

404 Yeah, Bers, you're right about the plumbers' *cock* fetish-- sillcock, too.

Hahahaha.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

405 Mom had one of those old suitcase record players and a bunch of 78rpm records. "Peter Cottontail" was one of them. I think the record was yellow, maybe red...
Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:16 AM (rdVOm)

Sings: "here comes Peter Cottontail, hopping down the bunny trail"...
(Drops pots and pans on floor making a great clatter.)

"Son of a bitch! Shit!"

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 01:21 AM (nNdlS)

406 Yeah, Bers, you're right about the plumbers' *cock* fetish-- sillcock, too.

Hahahaha.
Posted by: JQ


Do not forget the nipples.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2026 01:21 AM (/lPRQ)

407 Oh. Sorry, Bers. Thought you had a truck, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

408 Yeah, Bers, you're right about the plumbers' *cock* fetish-- sillcock, too.

Hahahaha.
Posted by: JQ

Forgot about that one. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:22 AM (snZF9)

409 LMAO, AOP!

Sorry. Didn't mean to wake you!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:23 AM (rdVOm)

410 The new military replacement for the Humvee is built off a Colorado chassis.

Sneaky difference, it has a blown, 4 banger diesel Duramax, that they sell out of country. Thank you CAFE.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:24 AM (YvvFZ)

411
It's sleep time again for the crew. Just learned that Christina likes to sleep upside down like bat. She hangs her feet up in the docking tunnel in the center and hangs upside down (relative to the floor of the capsule).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:25 AM (w6EFb)

412 Do not forget the nipples.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Yeah, plumbers only started talkin' 'bout nipples so people wouldn't call 'em ghey... it was ___cock this and ___cock that, all the time at first.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

413 Sneaky difference, it has a blown, 4 banger diesel Duramax, that they sell out of country. Thank you CAFE.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:24 AM (YvvFZ)

Why not a normally-aspirated 4-banger Diesel with a plain old mechanical injection pump? Less shit to go wrong.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 01:27 AM (nNdlS)

414 ...and all that pipe dope ain't helpin' the situation.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 03, 2026 01:27 AM (3l3tF)

415 Oh. Sorry, Bers. Thought you had a truck, LOL!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:21 AM (rdVOm)

I wish I had a truck. Its a nice little truck. Drives and rides like a car. It has a 1550 pound weight capacity. It must be a uranium hauler, because your not fitting anything weighing 1550 pounds in that thing, lol. Actually I stand corrected. When I got the plank flooring for the kitchen. It was 70lbs per box, and I had 600sq ft of flooring, so I think it was 35-36 boxes. We put some in mrs B's RDX, and I put the rest in the colorado. It handled it no problem. The harley would be no problem if it fit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:29 AM (snZF9)

416
Old hardware store joke: One of the help calls in sick, so the owner gets his wife to help serve customers. Guy comes in, and she asks what he needs. He says a file, a little bastard.

She gets all offended, how dare you use that language with a lady. Hubbie runs over and smooths things over here, telling her that's a valid term for a type of file.

She doesn't like it, but accepts it. Later another guys comes in wanting a file. She says I suppose you want a little bastard too? He replies, No ma'am, I need a big sum bitch about this long....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

417 They get 270HP out of it. It's standard and proved in other countries. Trust me a diesel without a blower isn't for shit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:31 AM (YvvFZ)

418
There's a similar one with nipple instead of little bastard, a little dirtier, but I can't remember it for the life of me.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

419
Lol publius

Posted by: fourseasons at April 03, 2026 01:32 AM (3ek7K)

420 If you like handling pipe all day, give us a call!

Posted by: Plumbers local 98 at April 03, 2026 01:32 AM (w/O5Q)

421 I am too lazy to look it up and link, but there is a nifty video of Liberace singing "In Your Easter Bonnet" and he brings forth his Mom.

I do have a question for the Horde, how do I ask for a screw in a hardware store without being viewed with pity. I need a screw, the handle on one of my brother's bureau drawers got lost in the move, I have the handle but I need the screw which holds it in place, you can see where this might be awkward.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:32 AM (0nHVk)

422 My "newer" pickup is a '03 Sierra, shortbed. (got it for a song from a friend in need of cash) It's rated for 1600lb and has no problem hauling that much.

I hate the 6' bed. Old Ford truck has 8' bed, but slurps so much gas and has a tendency to fk up when I need it *not to* the most. Time to sell it off to someone what wants an oldie and has the time to fiddle with it. I don't enjoy doing tune-ups on that old beast.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:34 AM (rdVOm)

423 I thought they stopped using "blast off" and replaced it with "lift off." "Blast" made people think of explosion.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2026 01:00 AM (Cqx++)

The real reason "blast off" isn't used. "I always take a blast before I take off."

Jose Jimenez, Astronaut
https://youtu.be/ncBSOyte6lA

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2026 01:34 AM (S/Y4j)

424 Old hardware store joke: One of the help calls in sick, so the owner gets his wife to help serve customers. Guy comes in, and she asks what he needs. He says a file, a little bastard.

She gets all offended, how dare you use that language with a lady. Hubbie runs over and smooths things over here, telling her that's a valid term for a type of file.

She doesn't like it, but accepts it. Later another guys comes in wanting a file. She says I suppose you want a little bastard too? He replies, No ma'am, I need a big sum bitch about this long....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2026 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

I heard it where the second person to come in was a little old lady. She asks for a file and the woman at the counter asks, you want the big bastard file? The old lady says no gimme that little motherfucker. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 01:36 AM (snZF9)

425 Debby-- take the handle to a hardware store, and say you need the correct "fastener" for it!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

426 Take the handle with you and tell them you need to attach it to the drawer. If there is an Ace around you that's the best. Usually the back right side of the store. There will be an old man who knows how everything works.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:36 AM (YvvFZ)

427 They get 270HP out of it. It's standard and proved in other countries. Trust me a diesel without a blower isn't for shit.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:31 AM (YvvFZ)

I was perfectly content with the un-blown 6.2 liter Diesel in my long-gone '85 Suburban. And the un-blown 4-banger Diesel in my old International tractor does just fine, too. And I bet that new engine for the Humlite needs DEF, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 01:37 AM (nNdlS)

428 DDS
I dropped back in after a short nap, and here you are!😊
I'll be in touch again soon! Love ya sweety....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2026 01:39 AM (nbQfO)

429 Anyhow, off to bed for real, now. Night.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 03, 2026 01:39 AM (nNdlS)

430 Another thing, Debby-- measure the thickness of that drawer front. Need to know how long your fastener needs to be!
(LOL!)

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:40 AM (rdVOm)

431 I love my local Ace, that is why I don't want to walk in and announce that I need a screw. Call me vain, but there would be a couple of guys that would volunteer and really I am not there for that.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:41 AM (0nHVk)

432 I hate the 6' bed. Old Ford truck has 8' bed, but slurps so much gas and has a tendency to fk up when I need it *not to* the most. Time to sell it off to someone what wants an oldie and has the time to fiddle with it. I don't enjoy doing tune-ups on that old beast.
Posted by: JQ
----

Is it a four speed?
You might want to hang on till after the burning time. Tow you little one behind it.

Carburetor tip from a master. Ues two fuel filters, one before the fuel pump and one before the carburetor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:42 AM (YvvFZ)

433 One of the electricians at work, had left a couple of wire nuts on the floor behind him.. so I picked them up and said "here, you dropped your nuts"

He looked at his tool bag, saw where the pouch seam had opened, and said "oh yeah, there's a hole in my sack"

Heh. And nobody got in trouble...

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:45 AM (rdVOm)

434 I was perfectly content with the un-blown 6.2 liter Diesel in my long-gone '85 Suburban. And the un-blown 4-banger Diesel in my old International tractor does just fine, too. And I bet that new engine for the Humlite needs DEF, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Even if you don't care for the efficiency gains that a turbo will supply, do it for the poor bastard behind your vehicle. The particulate output difference between non- and turbo'd diesels is night and day... the night part being produced by the black cloud emanating from the tailpipe.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 03, 2026 01:46 AM (DAQKj)

435 >>Is it a four speed?

---No.

>>Carburetor tip from a master. Ues two fuel filters, one before the fuel pump and one before the carburetor.

---Yep. Done already.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 01:47 AM (rdVOm)

436 And I bet that new engine for the Humlite needs DEF, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Military is not restricted to laws of common people.

I differ about blowers. Take the same engine one blown and one not and there is a world of difference. I've worked them both.
I had 6.2s with no complaints. However, with the exception that the engine wasn't built to handle it, a blower would have been simply marvelous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:47 AM (YvvFZ)

437 -----
Even if you don't care for the efficiency gains that a turbo will supply, do it for the poor bastard behind your vehicle. The particulate output difference between non- and turbo'd diesels is night and day... the night part being produced by the black cloud emanating from the tailpipe.
Posted by: buddhaha
---

Hahahahsh, annoy me and I will slime you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 03, 2026 01:49 AM (YvvFZ)

438 Whelp, sweet dreams Horde, it is most definitely time for bed. See you tomorrow.

Sweet dreams, COMM!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:49 AM (0nHVk)

439 Orion's "orbit " isn't technically an orbit. It has no closed form solution. It's best described as a hyperbolic "flybuy" in the jargon.

Posted by: pawn at April 03, 2026 01:50 AM (jstR0)

440 So, for all my working life, I've had to use much hardware.
It's hard for me to imagine not knowing different screw threads, lengths, straight head, Allen wrench use, etc...probably just me...I'm just a girl...
It's late. I probably have my nomenclature incorrect🥸...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2026 01:55 AM (nbQfO)

441 Unexpectedly ..

PoliticoEurope

Macron’s top Middle East adviser, Anne-Claire Legendre, left in February to head the Arab World Institute [...] Legendre has been lauded internally as having led the diplomatic efforts behind France’s push for the recognition of a Palestinian state.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2026 02:03 AM (I3Enw)

442 I'm such a bad girl... had a few cigarettes over the last week. Damn. Gotta start all over. Ugh!

I. Will. Win.

Eventually.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

443 Do we ever make it to1k comments on the ONT anymore? Or, are we getting too old? And where the heck is Miklos? And Pete Bog?!
Gosh, even DOOF! hung out this late...
I shouldn't be that asshoe...I'll be napping again soon as well...
Yikes🧐...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2026 02:05 AM (nbQfO)

444 Nah, we don't get the all night commenting like old days.

Whatever happened to navycopjoe? He was a funny one.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

445 I do have a question for the Horde, how do I ask for a screw in a hardware store without being viewed with pity. I need a screw, the handle on one of my brother's bureau drawers got lost in the move, I have the handle but I need the screw which holds it in place, you can see where this might be awkward.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 03, 2026 01:32 AM (0nHVk)

Shit, was out in the garage. Usually they are pretty much what is used on kitchen cabinet handles. They are usually 8-32. Size 8 machine screw, 32 threads per inch.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 02:08 AM (snZF9)

446
Ok.Good night for realz...

"Sleeping is my superpower.”

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2026 02:09 AM (nbQfO)

447 I'm such a bad girl... had a few cigarettes over the last week. Damn. Gotta start all over. Ugh!

I. Will. Win.

Eventually.

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

A few over a week isn't bad. Just back it down again, and don't increase. Its rough, I know.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 02:10 AM (snZF9)

448 Yeah Bers... it sucks. The more I smoke, the more I *want to* smoke!

It got so bad, the day after I stepped down to the lower-level nicotine patches. Gonna ramp back up to the "step 1" when I buy more tomorrow.

It's been so nice to breathe again!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

449 Blah blah blah

Posted by: raimondo at April 03, 2026 02:20 AM (xNdsz)

450 Behold-- the NIV

(NO-information voter) a.k.a. rainmandodo

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

451 41 Today was trash pickup day and I needed to retrieve my bin from the curb. I opened the front door, took one step outside, and realized it was raining and windy. I jumped back into the house and quickly shut the door.

Then it hit me. I had become a cat.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (YXOE0)


There is nothing wrong with that! In fact, you could make money (possibly not much) writing a story about it. The "magical realism" genre might make more sense, but if you've played a MMORPG or even just D&D, then a LitRPG monster isekai (reincarnated as a kitten in a game-like world) could be more saleable.

Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 02:28 AM (Sy6m/)

452 Posted by: raimondo at April 03, 2026 02:20 AM (xNdsz)

That reminds me of the tragedy of Steven Hassan. He developed the BITE model of cult brainwashing, since he'd experienced it, and then re-succumbed to a different one. Apparently just very naturally vulnerable to social control, he is oblivious to his new home the Social Justice Cult being a cult that follows the BITE model perfectly. He has no idea! It's tragic, and raimondo seems similarly oblivious to his own brainwashing.

Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 02:36 AM (Sy6m/)

453 Blah blah blah

Posted by: raimondo at April 03, 2026 02:37 AM (xNdsz)

454 Yeah Bers... it sucks. The more I smoke, the more I *want to* smoke!

It got so bad, the day after I stepped down to the lower-level nicotine patches. Gonna ramp back up to the "step 1" when I buy more tomorrow.

It's been so nice to breathe again!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:17 AM (rdVOm)

Yeah thats the problem. Thats why I said back it down. The worst damn thing is having to quit when you like it. They say you quit when you're ready. It seems you're never ready if you still like it. I came to terms with that I'll probably never fully quit. There will always be a random one here or there with decent periods of nothing in between. Thats a fart in a wind storm compared to the pack a day I did for decades.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 03, 2026 02:39 AM (snZF9)

455 Brainwashing is the perfect definition of trumpsters. Any thing they don't like is fake news.

Posted by: raimondo at April 03, 2026 02:41 AM (xNdsz)

456 Suddenly reappearing for about one comment. Doing my bit to push the comment total. Hi.

https://youtu.be/DYY5jFnkX5g
Posted by: JQ


How have I managed to get through so many Easters without hearing that classic Gene Autry? Memories from my earliest yout'! The world was different back then.

Updated (a sentimental classic for the 'rons):
https://youtu.be/V8L0HprVHhY


Por favor, no dejes que me malinterpreten
https://youtu.be/YMDrTMnm1IE

And now, g'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - that fateful weekend anniversary is upon us at April 03, 2026 02:48 AM (ByrUz)

457 There is nothing wrong with that! In fact, you could make money (possibly not much) writing a story about it. The "magical realism" genre might make more sense, but if you've played a MMORPG or even just D&D, then a LitRPG monster isekai (reincarnated as a kitten in a game-like world) could be more saleable.
Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 02:28 AM (Sy6m/)

I have a story idea for a supernatural cozy mystery series, with one of the characters being a black cat familiar assigned to a new coven of witches. The cat thinks he started out as a human wizard, but he's been reincarnated so many times that he isn't sure anymore. Meanwhile, he enjoys being a cat.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2026 02:49 AM (YXOE0)

458 I've quit several times, Bers, and I can't do that. One delicious one leads to a second tasty one, leads to *bam* right straight back to a pack a day of filling a need that tastes like ash. I have to follow the mantra, ABAC-NANEO:

Anything but a cigarette; never again, not even one.

It's brutally hard for me to quit in the first place, and nothing else works for me for staying quit for any time.

Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 02:50 AM (Sy6m/)

459 Way too early to get up

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 02:53 AM (Ia/+0)

460 I have a story idea for a supernatural cozy mystery series, with one of the characters being a black cat familiar assigned to a new coven of witches. The cat thinks he started out as a human wizard, but he's been reincarnated so many times that he isn't sure anymore. Meanwhile, he enjoys being a cat.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2026 02:49 AM (YXOE0)


I can picture it now: he's certain that he was much better at magic than any of them (even if he can't remember it clearly); not that he could explain it to them, you just need to be so talented. But he's very approving when they get something right. You're on the right track to learning to be half as good as I was, girl! Keep at it! *purrr*

Posted by: SciVo at April 03, 2026 02:54 AM (Sy6m/)

461 "Oh, just this ONE..."

Yep. BTDT and still did it again. Insane.

Could be worse, I guess-- could be rainmandodo. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at April 03, 2026 02:55 AM (rdVOm)

462 then a LitRPG monster isekai (reincarnated as a kitten in a game-like world) could be more saleable.
Posted by: SciVo


Surprisingly (not really), it's been done.

"I'm a Behemoth, an S-Ranked Monster, but Mistaken for a Cat, I Live as an Elf Girl's Pet"

(He lives in her cleavage, mostly. It's one of those kind of shows.)

Also taken: reincarnated as a sword, a giant spider, a slime, a skeleton, a lich, a pig, a viral infection, a vending machine, and a hot spring.

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2026 03:13 AM (VHUov)

463 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 03, 2026 04:04 AM (Ia/+0)

464 I think that if I were born at a time to fight and die to defend Europe during WWI, and got buried anywhere on that half continent . . . I would NOW want my body dug up, and removed from that fallow land, and returned home. Even if it was a backyard garden in a strangers homestead, in fact even MORE SO, I would by prefer that my descendents removed my existence from supporting these CUNTS in Europe, and put me back into the land that I love.

That would be an interesting effort. Descendents of the fallen removing the remains of US servicemen buried in europe to be reintered with HONOR in the soil of the land they love.

FUCK EUROPE!

Random thing. . .why do reporters keep pronouncing "Van der Leyen" as "Van Der LION?" It's not "Lion." It's "Lay" like on your back, and "ON" like the muslim rapist who you are about to invite unvetted into your continent. Just so curious about that, and it's recent, they USED to pronounce it correctly, but now, she's a LION defying orange man, who actually looks like a lion with his fucked up hair.

Posted by: wickedpinto at April 03, 2026 06:37 AM (dJrj2)

Pesach Cafe

fallswithlogs.jpg
Pete Vander Muelen

When I was young, I wondered why my Easter egg decorating kit said it was for "Paques." That's just the French for the old Latin term "Pascha" which just means Pesach or Passover. Most Romance language countries call Easter something like "Paques:" -- Spanish Pascua, Italian Pasqua. Easter is specifically an Old English word and probably means "dawn."

The English word "Easter" originates from Old English Eastre or Eostre, likely derived from a Proto-Germanic root for "dawn" (austron-) or a springtime goddess associated with the east. This name is traditionally linked to the rising sun, symbolizing the resurrection, and was adopted to replace earlier Pascha celebrations.

Dune: Meowsiah.

Dog slept so deeply he attracted a vulture.


Big bunny bread for its meat is rescued and living his best bunny life.

Puppy's been training for this very moment his whole life.

Street argument.

Rescuing a neglected senior dog (who looks like a teddy bear now).

Last week I posted a short video of a bear waking up from hibernation with Stage IV bedhead. There's more to the story. That was an elderly circus bear callously discarded by the people he used to make money for. He's now been rescued and given his own paddock to walk around in.

Low-energy cat.

Lightning strikes are God's way of telling you Do Better. #DoBetter, people.

Cats are why we can't have nice things. Further evidence.

I will never forget this dog's birthday party because it's a nightmare dreamed by a demon.

Guys pretending to listen to their wives.

Koalas should be seen not heard. Fuck man that's awful.

Cruisin' the strip.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:37 PM




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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 02, 2026 07:37 PM (NcvvS)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:39 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Waterfall fall. Yikes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:42 PM (u82oZ)

4 My sleeping soundly story. Look out at the pasture and a cow is lying down. 3 hours later the cow is still.lying down. Assumption, cow is dead so I'll drag it off at the end of the day. Call the owners of said cow to let them know.

Fire up tractor and gather chains... the cow got up and walked away.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:43 PM (+nEug)

5 Loved the parrot telling the dog about his day.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 02, 2026 07:43 PM (NcvvS)

6 English still uses the word “Pascal” to refer to Easter associated events and activities.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 07:44 PM (cKPyM)

7 I always hated the smell of vinegar and because of that never really enjoyed dying eggs.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)

8 6 English still uses the word “Pascal” to refer to Easter associated events and activities.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 07:44 PM (cKPyM)


Like compiling banking software over the long weekend

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:46 PM (gKWVE)

9 "Paschal" might be the word you're looking for

Posted by: gKWVE, looking all innocent at April 02, 2026 07:46 PM (gKWVE)

10 Our cats use to bury under blankets, always was afraid someone might sit on them.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)

11 Oh cool. I was thinking about Pascal. He was a mathametician of course but also a Christian apologist and Catholic theoligian.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:47 PM (3uBP9)

12 English won't be doing anything Pascal soon enough
But Ramadan will be a big holiday

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)

13
TLI burn imminent:

https://is.gd/LsKlEo

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

14 My sleeping soundly story. Look out at the pasture and a cow is lying down. 3 hours later the cow is still.lying down. Assumption, cow is dead so I'll drag it off at the end of the day. Call the owners of said cow to let them know.

Fire up tractor and gather chains... the cow got up and walked away.
Posted by: Ben Had

Udderly ridiculous.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (HW/1v)

15 I'm still laughing at Dune part 3.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (V4IXI)

16 But Pascal is a french name derived from the same Easter word.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

17
I see a curve! Fake and gay.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

18 On April 1, Delhi Public Works Department Minister Parvesh Sahib Singh announced the phased removal and replacement of roughly 140,000 Chinese-manufactured CCTV cameras — the majority supplied by Hikvision and its rival Dahua (Zhejiang Dahua Technology).

These devices, installed under the previous AAP government between 2020 and 2022, make up more than half of the city’s 274,000-camera network. They are now being ripped down and swapped for secure, India-compliant systems.

Posted by: 13times at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (RiT5e)

19 I mean, Pascal is a sort of common religious word, Pascal Lamb and all but I guess I never matched it with the mathematician's name

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:50 PM (3uBP9)

20 Seen on Insty: novelty "love chocolate" is being recalled because it contains "life threatening" amounts of Viagra.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:51 PM (aUxYo)

21 There have been baseball players named Easter and Pasqua.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 07:51 PM (AlhUl)

22 7 I always hated the smell of vinegar and because of that never really enjoyed dying eggs.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:44 PM
Eggs can survive vinegar quite nicely. Have you ever been to an old time bar?

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

23 Live NASA stream of the upcoming TLI burn:
https://is.gd/Fa4KLg

Isaacman is there in MC himself for this one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

-----------

Thanks for the link! TLI -- TransLunar Injection burn.

AND WE JUST SAW THE BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death)!

[From the prior thread:]

Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:52 PM (seACy)

24 I'm calming down. My dog Ralphy seems like he's trying to kill himself.

It's been two weeks since he fell out of my bed. I took away the doggy stairs so he can't jump up there without me around. I lift him up. I lift him down. Not a problem.

He went outside. Came back in. I'm in my chair looking for a horror movie. For some reason, this 14.7 year old dog decides he'll run and jump on the bed like he used to do. His bacl legs are very strong, but not THAT strong.

Ralphy hit the bed, fell backwards. He's fine. He's walking. He looked so stunned. I have two more weeks of pain pills. He's laying on the bed now. Still WTF?

The vet always comments how full of life he is for his age. Still. WTF??

Thanks for letting me vent.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 07:52 PM (Sco7b)

25

9 "Paschal" might be the word you're looking for
Posted by: gKWVE, looking all innocent at April 02, 2026 07:46 PM (gKWVE)

You people and your hoity toity h’s.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 07:52 PM (cKPyM)

26 Just saw a video (Department of War channel on YT). Hegseth announcing that military bases were made gun free zones. That ends today. Hope it's real.

IIRC, disarming troops on base started in one of the Bush terms. Could be wrong about that.

Posted by: JTB at April 02, 2026 07:52 PM (yTvNw)

27 Eromero, Cajun spiced pickled eggs on the menu around here.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:53 PM (+nEug)

28 I'm watching the TLI burn from Orion on NASA's live feed page right now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:53 PM (ESVrU)

29 Fire up tractor and gather chains... the cow got up and walked away.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:43 PM (+nEug)

Ha!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 02, 2026 07:53 PM (zYpTz)

30 Oh, yeah, I forgot PASCAL was a programming language.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 07:53 PM (3uBP9)

31 IIRC, disarming troops on base started in one of the Bush terms. Could be wrong about that.

Posted by: JTB

H.W.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 07:54 PM (HW/1v)

32 Hegseth announcing that military bases were made gun free zones. That ends today. Hope it's real.

It's real, Hegseth also posted it on X and several other official DoW channels.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:54 PM (aUxYo)

33 Dash, enjoying your lovely gift this evening.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:54 PM (+nEug)

34 Do they use 2FA in space? I hate that squit.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 07:55 PM (UoFpr)

35 Oh, yeah, I forgot PASCAL was a programming language.

Back in the 80s it was the "language of the future" because it was very difficult to write unsafe programs in.

The only thing new about the Rust programming language (which gets the same press today) is that it's touted as transgender somehow.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:56 PM (aUxYo)

36 Low-energy cat.

F***ing sunbeam, interrupting my nap.

Posted by: the cat at April 02, 2026 07:56 PM (VHUov)

37 Thanks for the link! TLI -- TransLunar Injection burn.

-------------

"WHY ARE ALL THE PEOPLE IN NASA MISSION CONTROL WYTEPIPO! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:57 PM (seACy)

38
TLI burn complete. Good burn. They're on their way to the Moon, Alice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:57 PM (w6EFb)

39 H.W.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory


A kinder, gentler America; not like Reagan's.

Posted by: Peggy Noonan at April 02, 2026 07:57 PM (gKWVE)

40 TLI burn appears to have been successful.

Orion is on its way!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:57 PM (ESVrU)

41 Pickled eggs are disgusting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (A5RD0)

42 How Nidal Hassan killed so many at Ft. Hood.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (+nEug)

43 The only thing new about the Rust programming language (which gets the same press today) is that it's touted as transgender somehow.
Posted by: Ian S.


awk is the trans language.

Got a string x = "10"?
x = x + 0
Now it's an integer 10, not a string.
x = x + 0.0
Now it's floating-point 10.0, not an integer.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (VHUov)

44 nurse, love you but we will always disagree about pickled eggs.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:59 PM (+nEug)

45 Oh, Stateless. Maybe the doggy stairs would be less dangerous. Are you a handy type? Maybe build him a wide, padded set.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 02, 2026 07:59 PM (zYpTz)

46 "WHY ARE ALL THE PEOPLE IN NASA MISSION CONTROL WYTEPIPO! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Ben Bankas (legal immigrant comedian from Canada) has a funny bit about normal white people going to Mars to escape the Democrats and DEI.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:59 PM (aUxYo)

47 Do they use 2FA in space? I hate that squit.
Posted by: fd


Space 2FA is really secure.

Password + altimeter.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 08:00 PM (VHUov)

48 Stateless. Prayers for you and Ralphy. My best boy Rhett died on April 30, 2025. He had a month of hospice. That is hard stuff.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:00 PM (syAfa)

49 Got a string x = "10"?
x = x + 0
Now it's an integer 10, not a string.
x = x + 0.0
Now it's floating-point 10.0, not an integer.


Javascript is similarly fast and loose with types.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (aUxYo)

50 MS Now - headline - tomorrow morning.

"Due to poor planning by President Trump, the astronauts have failed to reach the moon yet.

We fear the worst and will keep you updated."

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (Sco7b)

51 Barely ScaryMary, up for a spicy margarita?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (+nEug)

52 Pickled eggs are nice as an occasional treat. Do you also dislike pickles on burgers, nurse?

mikeski, ugh. Dynamic typing, useful, dynamic temporary casting, yuck, on-the-fly silent re-typing? Get thee behind me, Satan!

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (aJQbY)

53 I saw lightning hit a junk car once, about a hundred feet away, at night, in the dark. The car lit up red hot for a second and a half, I could see every detail of it.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (Q+gd/)

54 TLI burn appears to have been successful.

Just in time for National Burrito Day!

Posted by: The Astro-potty at April 02, 2026 08:02 PM (BvTxf)

55 26 Just saw a video (Department of War channel on YT). Hegseth announcing that military bases were made gun free zones. That ends today. Hope it's real.

IIRC, disarming troops on base started in one of the Bush terms. Could be wrong about that.

Posted by: JTB at April 02, 2026 07:52 PM (yTvNw)
That be the case, I might make a trip to the Barksdale class 6 store this summer.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 08:02 PM (LHPAg)

56
I'm enjoying that tracker. They hit a peak geocentric velocity of somewhere between 24.5 and 25 kmph, but you'll note speed is dropping off rapidly as it pulls away from earth. Speed is now 21.5 kmph, distance 1400 miles.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

57 Barely ScaryMary, up for a spicy margarita?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (+nEug)

I tried giving them up for Lent. But I failed!

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:03 PM (syAfa)

58 The Dune cat was hilarious. Meow Dib!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 02, 2026 08:03 PM (+NIRm)

59 Love you too, Ben Had.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 08:03 PM (A5RD0)

60 I saw the aftermath of lightning hitting a tree and killing the 3 horses underneath it.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:04 PM (+nEug)

61 Jesse says they just blew up some main bridge in Iran.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 08:04 PM (Cqx++)

62 >>> awk is the trans language.

Got a string x = "10"?
x = x + 0
Now it's an integer 10, not a string.
x = x + 0.0
Now it's floating-point 10.0, not an integer.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (VHUov)


POSIX commands like awk, sed, ed etc... all have an actual tr trans command.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 08:04 PM (3uBP9)

63 Seen on Insty: novelty "love chocolate" is being recalled because it contains "life threatening" amounts of Viagra.
Posted by: Ian S.


Well, that was a huge boner!

Posted by: somebody had to say it at April 02, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

64 Pickled cucumbers, pickled green beans, asparagus , peppers, cauliflower…. All good.


Pickled eggs? No. My father gave me a case of pickled quail eggs shipped up when he lived in Lubbock. Holy crap. I tried to like them.

Nope. Horrid things.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 08:06 PM (A5RD0)

65 Sorry, Lufkin, TX. Not Lubbock.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 08:06 PM (A5RD0)

66 Bertram Cabot, the bridge and 9 more IRGC muckety mucks.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:06 PM (+nEug)

67 45 Oh, Stateless. Maybe the doggy stairs would be less dangerous. Are you a handy type? Maybe build him a wide, padded set.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 02, 2026 07:59 PM (zYpTz

48 Stateless. Prayers for you and Ralphy. My best boy Rhett died on April 30, 2025. He had a month of hospice. That is hard stuff.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:00 PM (syAfa

Thank you both. I'm sorry about your friend but I bet he had an amazing life.

Dash, I took away the stairs because he used them the day before his bigger fall and somehow fell!

He really is not that bad. I let the vet decide on life or death but he was bouncing around and after her examination, she chose life. I've been carrying him but he's been fine over a week ago.

Everyone have a great night.
Horror movies to calm myself down.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 08:07 PM (Sco7b)

68 Somebody told me that if cows are laying down it means it's going to rain. That does not comport with the cows I have seen standing in the rain.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 08:07 PM (UoFpr)

69

Well, that was a huge boner!
Posted by: somebody had to say it at April 02, 2026 08:04 PM (VHUov)

The story caught my eye as well. Reading it, evidently the drugs were 'undeclared'. Fucking retards. Somebody gonna be in trouble. Probably in china though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:08 PM (zZu0s)

70 Javascript is similarly fast and loose with types.

Loose typing turns easily found, easily fixed compile time errors and turns them into hard to find, potentially disastrous runtime errors. Ask a programmer under age 50 what lint is for and I bet he looks at his navel.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 02, 2026 08:09 PM (vTZFs)

71 Dog slept so deeply he attracted a vulture.
===

It's the stank from the dead squirrel the dog was rolling around on.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 08:09 PM (/lPRQ)

72 Evidently, when combined with taking nitroglycerin (for example) eating the chocolate laced with dick drugs can cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:09 PM (zZu0s)

73 Had lightening hit about 200 yards from me once on the golf course. There was a brown stinky smell in the golf cart afterwards.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:10 PM (2WIwB)

74 I handled at least four Worker's Comp lightning fatality claims.

I quit and seek shelter immediately if I'm on the golf course and I hear thunder.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:10 PM (V4IXI)

75 Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Yes we blew up the tallest bridge in the Middle East. B1 is the name. Broke the roadway in the center.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (u82oZ)

76 Ask Eromero about lightning. Go ahead.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (+nEug)

77 Dog slept so deeply he attracted a vulture.
===

It's the stank from the dead squirrel the dog was rolling around on.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 08:09 PM (/lPRQ)

Looked like a young Rhodesian Ridgeback.

Badass dog.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (V4IXI)

78 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:12 PM (u82oZ)

79 I have a recipe for pickled eggs using those little Red Hot candies.
Yum

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 08:12 PM (q6tQZ)

80 The neighbors' bovines stood around looking unbothered by the thunderstorm we had this morning.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:12 PM (syAfa)

81 The vultures are treating my roof like a flight deck. They have been back 8 days. No sign of the deck railings being used for sexy times. Yet.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:13 PM (u82oZ)

82 Dog slept so deeply he attracted a vulture.

I don't get it. Vulture sitting there looking menacing. Just one vulture; aren't they flocking birds? And don't they hunt by scent, so a sleeping animal wouldn't attract them?

Dog wakes up, bumps vulture. Vulture just continues to sit there.

Dog takes three steps and is getting petted by his human who was right there the whole time, not doing anything to protect the dog.

So, is the vulture the human's pet, too? Is it just a really odd choice for an AI-generated movie?

Posted by: mikeski is more confused than normal at April 02, 2026 08:14 PM (VHUov)

83 65 Sorry, Lufkin, TX. Not Lubbock.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 08:06 PM (A5RD0)
Muenster Texas has pickled quail eggs too. It's know as the Fredericksburg of North Texas.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 08:14 PM (LHPAg)

84 No sign of the deck railings being used for sexy times. Yet.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Give them something to eat...like coon carcass.

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 08:14 PM (q6tQZ)

85 79 I have a recipe for pickled eggs using those little Red Hot candies.
Yum
Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 08:12 PM (q6tQZ)

*makes horrified face

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 02, 2026 08:14 PM (zYpTz)

86 Back from Holy Thursday Services.

Moving and humbling as always.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 08:15 PM (XV/Pl)

87 Give them something to eat...like coon carcass.

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 08:14 PM (q6tQZ)


Cut. Jib. Newsletter....

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:15 PM (syAfa)

88 73 Had lightening hit about 200 yards from me once on the golf course. There was a brown stinky smell in the golf cart afterwards.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:10 PM (2WIwB)

I wasn't there but I believe it about lightning.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (YlWIZ)

89 Pickled eggs just means less eggs available to make deviled eggs. I could eat 50 eggs like Luke if they were deviled eggs.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (V4IXI)

90 >>Had lightening hit about 200 yards from me once on the golf course. There was a brown stinky smell in the golf cart afterwards.

Been caught out sailing when storms with lightening rolled in. Not a happy place to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (viF8m)

91 80 The neighbors' bovines stood around looking unbothered by the thunderstorm we had this morning.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary


The caravan mooves on.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (gKWVE)

92 Cut. Jib. Newsletter....
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

Reminds me to go set the traps

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (q6tQZ)

93 Tomorrow is watching "Passion of the Christ" day.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (+nEug)

94 If that waterfall dog was like my herding dog he would say, oh shit, my checkbook is back in the creek.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 08:17 PM (YlWIZ)

95 1 Pickled eggs are disgusting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (A5RD0


Concur!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:17 PM (2WIwB)

96 MkY

I'd try democrats, but even a hungry turkey vulture has standards. Need a front loader for the bone disposal.

Easier to let the vultures get their own food. Recycling at its finest.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:18 PM (u82oZ)

97 or "Life of Brian"

Posted by: gKWVE looking on the bright side of life at April 02, 2026 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

98 41 Pickled eggs are disgusting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 07:58 PM (A5RD0)

Right you are. With so many lovely things to pickle, why do that to an egg? And you know, I speak as the Pickle Queen of Alaska. At least until the next State Fair.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:19 PM (DwqWV)

99 Read that open carry will be allowed on bases

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)

100 I used to run in an 800 acre park set in swamp and forest. At the halfway point there is a bench. Saw buzzards overhead and I laid down motionless on the bench for about 10 minutes. More vultures gathered and they circled lower and lower, then down to treetop level. I sat up and they dispersed, upset that I wasn't a goner.

Posted by: I Ain't Dead Yet at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (oY1HT)

101 97 or "Life of Brian"
Posted by: gKWVE looking on the bright side of life at April 02, 2026 08:18 PM (gKWVE)

"Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it..."

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (DwqWV)

102 One claim I handled was of a poor grocery store bag boy collecting carts in the parking lot when he was struck and killed. Wasn't raining at the time.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (V4IXI)

103 Demon birthday dog is something else.

Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (q177U)

104 I made Ajitsuke Tamago eggs this week for ramen. Those were pretty good. Deviled eggs for Easter dinner, of course.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (syAfa)

105 I sat up and they dispersed, upset that I wasn't a goner.
Posted by: I Ain't Dead Yet at April 02, 2026 08:20 PM (oY1HT)

Yer not foolin' anyone, y'know.
'

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (DwqWV)

106 Vulture sitting there looking menacing. Just one vulture; aren't they flocking birds?
Posted by: mikeski

In a word - Yes! They are very sociable with other vultures and tend to flock and fly together. During this time of the year, we routinely have 50 or 60 that perch in the trees in the woods behind our house.

Note to those interested: With that many hanging around, they would easily clean up some very poor decisions in a few hours or so.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (cYBz/)

107 Yes we blew up the tallest bridge in the Middle East. B1 is the name. Broke the roadway in the center.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (u82oZ)


Yes we blew up the tallest bridge in the Middle East. B1 is the name. Broke the roadway in the center.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (u82oZ)

This was from GatewayPundit at 5:40. Another guy named Mo dead.

Iranian Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Mohammad-Ali Fathalizadeh was killed on Wednesday in a US-Israeli strike.

Mohammad-Ali Fathalizadeh, also known as General Mohammad Ali Fathali-Zadeh, was the latest Iranian regime leader to be taken out by US and Israeli forces.

According to Xinhua, Iran’s Defa Press news agency, a news outlet affiliated with the General Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, reported on Thursday.

Mohammad-Ali Fathalizadeh led the “fatehin” special unit of the IRGC.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (Sco7b)

108 Read that open carry will be allowed on bases
Posted by: Skip

Linky?

Because I really doubt it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (/lPRQ)

109 By the way, yesterday was the Navy CPO birthday, 1896. As good a reason as any to have a drink.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

110 What say you about red beet eggs?

Me likes but the lovely Mrs. will not touch them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:22 PM (cYBz/)

111 You sure it was Bush who instituted no guns carried on base besides MPs?

I thought that was something someway before Bush.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:23 PM (V4IXI)

112 Note to those interested: With that many hanging around, they would easily clean up some very poor decisions in a few hours or so.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:21 PM (cYBz/)

Had a moose hit by a truck on the highway last week. Those get harvested by people who sign up to do so. Left the gut pile and a bunch of blood next to the road.

I saw no less than 12 bald eagles in one big old cottonwood tree on one side of the road and about 20 ravens in another one on the other side.

This week, you would never know it happened.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:23 PM (DwqWV)

113 LazyMessenger brings beet eggs every PNW meetup.


That are very good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 08:23 PM (A5RD0)

114 What say you about red beet eggs?

Me likes but the lovely Mrs. will not touch them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:22 PM (cYBz/)

Never heard of them. But Mr Scary likes eggs. And beets. He might go for it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:24 PM (syAfa)

115 The Word according to Grok:

February 25, 1992: The Department of Defense issued DoD Directive 5210.56 ("Arming and the Use of Force"). This directive established strict limits on carrying firearms on military installations. It generally prohibited DoD personnel (including active-duty service members) from carrying privately owned firearms on base except in very specific official capacities, such as law enforcement or security duties.
March 12, 1993: The Army followed up with Army Regulation 190-14, which implemented the DoD policy more specifically for the Army. This is the regulation often cited in discussions about "disarming" soldiers on base.

Prior to 1992, policies varied by service and installation, but service members generally had more flexibility regarding personal firearms (though open carry or casual carrying while on duty was never the norm). The 1992 directive standardized and tightened the rules across the Department of Defense.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

116 111 You sure it was Bush who instituted no guns carried on base besides MPs?

I thought that was something someway before Bush.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:23 PM (V4IXI)

They weren't allowed to carry when I started at USACE in the late 1980's. After working on a CID facility and speaking with the agents there, I can't imagine carrying on base is a smart move. These are kids who can't help but destroy the barracks they live in, so not known for impulse control. And then there are the really criminal idiots. 18 to 24 year olds as a group are not known for their responsible behavior.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:25 PM (DwqWV)

117 Sad to hear about the moose hit by the truck. It wasn't the one out front, was it?

Posted by: Need Direction at April 02, 2026 08:26 PM (oY1HT)

118 109 By the way, yesterday was the Navy CPO birthday, 1896. As good a reason as any to have a drink.
Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 08:22 PM (LHPAg)

As if we need an excuse. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:27 PM (DwqWV)

119 I never saw red beet eggs, but I like beets so I’d probably like them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 08:27 PM (pFJNq)

120 117 Sad to hear about the moose hit by the truck. It wasn't the one out front, was it?
Posted by: Need Direction at April 02, 2026 08:26 PM (oY1HT)

So far, 239 have been hit by vehicles this year in the Mat-Su. It is far from a rare occurrence.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:27 PM (DwqWV)

121 Beet eggs aren't half bad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 08:28 PM (HW/1v)

122 I love pickled eggs but draw a hard line no on the kool-aid ones.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:28 PM (+nEug)

123 My parents would always buy pickled beets and when they ate them all fill the jar with hard boiled eggs.

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 08:28 PM (YwEeS)

124 I see Don LeMon is claiming he is being targeted directly by Trump.


Talk about an over-inflated ego. I doubt Trump gives him a passing thought.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:29 PM (DwqWV)

125
Moose is really good eating, as long as the butcher and cook know their trade.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 08:29 PM (Y8DZL)

126
I recall that the Apollo lunar missions reached a surprisingly low minimum velocity as the craft traveled to the moon -- 2,000 miles per hour, then the moon's gravity began accelerating them towards the moon. Just enough velocity to get there. The burn to slow down into lunar orbit would eventually follow.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 08:30 PM (azNOR)

127 I just remember the stupid kid in the movie Into the Wild killing a moose with his .22 and not knowing what to do with it.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (V4IXI)

128 >>> February 25, 1992: The Department of Defense issued DoD Directive 5210.56...

Going on 30 yrs+ here...
Best one could have hoped for was storage of privately owned firearms in the unit armory (if living on Base). Then got much more restrictive after 9-11.
Real awkward as some Bases had MWR ranges and hunting areas. Bases w/o ranges and if you lived off-Base you were SOL.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (/lPRQ)

129 I could eat 50 eggs like Luke if they were deviled eggs.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:16 PM (V4IXI)

That would mean 100 deviled eggs.

I think for the rest of us, it'd be easier just to shoot you when you got to 20 or so. From a distance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (zZu0s)

130 You know who else was targeted by Trump?

Posted by: Pam Bondo at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (UoFpr)

131 Don Lemon, inflated ego guy is a bigger dick than the inflated scrotum guy.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (+nEug)

132 Mammaw used cinnamon red hot candy to make rhubarb cobbler.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (zZu0s)

133 I think for the rest of us, it'd be easier just to shoot you when you got to 20 or so. From a distance.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (zZu0s)

Yes I would turn into a gas weapon of mass destruction .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:32 PM (V4IXI)

134 These are kids who can't help but destroy the barracks they live in, so not known for impulse control. And then there are the really criminal idiots. 18 to 24 year olds as a group are not known for their responsible behavior.
Posted by: tcn in AK
===

And then there are the Jr Officers.
Almost worse than the enlisted.

Was it Reagan who did away with the 18 YO drinking age?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 08:34 PM (/lPRQ)

135 Two things you can't make enough of at a MoMe. Deviled eggs and bacon bread

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (+nEug)

136 Just came from Mass of the Lord's Supper.
Beautiful

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (6U1c2)

137 I wonder if the Anwar Sadat assassination had anything to do with enacting gun-free zone military bases.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (Q+gd/)

138 When you're more a whiny lying black homo than Jussie Smollett you've got real issues.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (V4IXI)

139 116 111 Firearms on base was generally a pain in the ass when I was in. Stationed at NAF DC (Andrews) one could use the Air Force indoor shooting range (no problem with that, the guys were great, no appointments) but if you were a barracks rat the gun was stored there. Left a pride and joy, a Smith and Wesson model 41 there. Now I know the range guys would take stored guns back to try out, but a nice rusty fingerprint in that beautiful bluing kinda pissed me off. Started keeping the guns in my room, locked up and locked in a locked locker, which is about as locked as you can get.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (gm9Sb)

140 Moose is really good eating, as long as the butcher and cook know their trade.
Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 08:29 PM (Y8DZL)

Moose is delicious!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:36 PM (2WIwB)

141 These are kids who can't help but destroy the barracks they live in, so not known for impulse control. And then there are the really criminal idiots. 18 to 24 year olds as a group are not known for their responsible behavior.

===

if they cannot be trusted in the barracks, what makes anyone think they can be trusted on the battlefield ??

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 08:36 PM (GD0B3)

142 Julie Kelly has things to say about Pam Bondi.

https://tinyurl.com/4mvyyza6

Posted by: 13times at April 02, 2026 08:37 PM (RiT5e)

143 Two things you can't make enough of at a MoMe. Deviled eggs and bacon bread

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:35 PM (+nEug)


Something I can bring! I don't bake. But I can devil an egg.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:39 PM (syAfa)

144 last thing i want to think of is Don Lemon's dick

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:39 PM (gKWVE)

145 Do you really want an army of limp dick conformists? They are soldiers, not altar boys.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 08:40 PM (UoFpr)

146 last thing i want to think of is Don Lemon's dick
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:39 PM (gKWVE)

Thats an odd last request, but im sure he's up for it...

Posted by: Canadian MAID at April 02, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

147 I’ve seen lightning right in front of me in the car; but what made me jump the highest was during our great ice storm about 5 years ago. (I guess you could call this synthetic lightning, since it came from a main trunk power line for our neighborhood that runs next to the street in my front yard)

The storm was quiet, kind of a whispery thing, but it was heavy, and it had reached the point where you could hear limbs cracking and falling all over about every 30 seconds. I shouldn’t have gone outside but it was eerie and fascinating; no people or animals out (smart) just nature behaving in a really unusual way. So I was walking towards the front when a decent size limb came out of the oak tree right onto that powerline. Stretched it almost to the ground, I thought would break but it didn’t - and then one end touched the ground and 40,000 volts arced through it. BAM! Looked and sounded like lightning, given that I was only about 40 feet away it really sounded like an explosion. Damn!!!

When I ran back inside, first thing the wife said was “WHAT DID YOU DO???”

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 08:41 PM (pFJNq)

148 Julie Kelly has things to say about Pam Bondi.

https://tinyurl.com/4mvyyza6


===
interesting

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 08:42 PM (GD0B3)

149 I had a recipe for making deviled eggs using ranch and bacon.

They came out pretty good, unsurprisingly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

150 Posted by: Canadian MAID at April 02, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

I need to consider better who else posts here before I post stuff.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:42 PM (gKWVE)

151 Phrasing is key.

Plus I just have a twisted mind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

152 Bacon + deviled eggs is a match made in Heaven.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:45 PM (syAfa)

153 127 I just remember the stupid kid in the movie Into the Wild killing a moose with his .22 and not knowing what to do with it.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:31 PM (V4IXI)

That would be very difficult to do. Moose are pretty tough. I guess you could hit one in the eye and have it go into the brain, but I can't imagine a body shot with a .22 would do much.

And I do know what to do with a moose. It goes in the freezer; takes about a week to process all that. The hide gets to be mittens that last a very long time. The horns, should it have them, go over the garage door. Lol.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:46 PM (DwqWV)

154 Do you really want an army of limp dick conformists? They are soldiers, not altar boys.
Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 08:40 PM (UoFpr)

This. Kids (and 18 more and more becomes a kid the older I get) hopped up on testosterone and trained to shoot stuff and possibly die for their country. Let them have a little fun (within reason.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

155 Prior to 1992, policies varied by service and installation, but service members generally had more flexibility regarding personal firearms (though open carry or casual carrying while on duty was never the norm). The 1992 directive standardized and tightened the rules across the Department of Defense.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:24 PM (cYBz/)


In the early 80's, young Lieutenant Diogenes was running a pistol.range at Ft Lewis. It was common kniwledge.that when doing this job, anyone (think the commanding general) could show up and shoot his privately owned weapons. And if you were running the range correctly, he'd let you shoot his old Colt .45. Hell of a lot of fun back then.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:46 PM (2WIwB)

156 Bacon + deviled eggs is a match made in Heaven.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:45 PM (syAfa)

IIRC, it came out a bit too tangy. Might have cut the ranch with mayo. Or used too much mustard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

157 I'm looking forward to spending more time with my private sector.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 02, 2026 08:49 PM (2Ez/1)

158 These are kids who can't help but destroy the barracks they live in, so not known for impulse control. And then there are the really criminal idiots. 18 to 24 year olds as a group are not known for their responsible behavior.

===

if they cannot be trusted in the barracks, what makes anyone think they can be trusted on the battlefield ??
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 08:36 PM (GD0B3)
***

This is a leadership issue.
My squad leaders, platoon sergeants, and platoon leaders had better be in those barracks every damned day and at least once on the weekend. Not an inspection, but just being seen and seeing. Any damage is a swift paycheck adjustment.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:50 PM (2WIwB)

159 Bacon and horseradish or bacon and gorgonzola for deviled eggs.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:50 PM (+nEug)

160 Making smoked salmon spread for Easter treats. DH is allergic to eggs, so no deviled eggs for us. I prefer the salmon anyway, but a good deviled egg is a fine treat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:51 PM (DwqWV)

161 Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:46 PM (DwqWV

IIRC in the movie he shot it over a dozen times . I don't know if he did in real life though we know he only had a .22 rifle. I didn't read the book.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 08:51 PM (V4IXI)

162
Do you really want an army of limp dick conformists? They are soldiers, not altar boys.

It would be nice if they could follow orders.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (Cqx++)

163 tcn your smoked salmon is divine

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (+nEug)

164 IIRC, it came out a bit too tangy. Might have cut the ranch with mayo. Or used too much mustard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)


I've never used ranch. Although that could be intriguing.

Pickle juice. Dukes mayo and mustard.

*chef's kiss*

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (syAfa)

165 Bacon and horseradish or bacon and gorgonzola for deviled eggs.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:50 PM (+nEug)

Hmmm. Horseradish could be good. The gorganzola makes me wonder if you could put just a tad bit of blue cheese in there.

You know, to really Amp up the gastric distress.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

166 Day one of quitting smoking and I didn’t murder anyone. I’m calling that a win.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (u73oe)

167 OT: I'm watching the Taiwan version of "RIPD". with a touch of "Big Trouble in Little China" as I suppose it would be. "Agent From Above".
Protagonist is retrieved from Asian hell to fight errant ghosts and demons.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (gKWVE)

168 I try not to criticize Trump much, but he has tended to go for style over substance at times. I generally think that “look at the hot chick do a man’s job just as well as any of them!” is way too much of a Hollywood storyline to be true very often, and I don’t trust it. (Look what we’re finding out about Noem). Bondi was way out of her depth all of this time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 08:53 PM (pFJNq)

169 This is a leadership issue.
My squad leaders, platoon sergeants, and platoon leaders had better be in those barracks every damned day and at least once on the weekend. Not an inspection, but just being seen and seeing. Any damage is a swift paycheck adjustment.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 08:50 PM (2WIwB)

Not at Ft. Wainwright, anyway. The hallways are always dusty and filthy. Some of the individual rooms are pretty gnarly, too. I don't think I ever saw any sergeants in the barracks proper. They are down in the day room sometimes, but not the rest of the building. We were forever getting told to make the rooms more like jails than apartments, because then they wouldn't destroy them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:53 PM (DwqWV)

170 Day one of quitting smoking and I didn’t murder anyone. I’m calling that a win.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (u73oe)

Good luck, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:54 PM (zZu0s)

171 "It would be nice if they could follow orders.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. "

If it's not too much to ask.

Posted by: Sarge at April 02, 2026 08:54 PM (UoFpr)

172 Aetius, as Cole Porter sang " Experiment"

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:54 PM (+nEug)

173 So what is Asian Hell? No noodles?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 08:55 PM (pFJNq)

174 You can do it, Duke

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 08:56 PM (gDlxJ)

175 163 tcn your smoked salmon is divine
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (+nEug)

Let's hope I can recreate it this year. I was very pleased to have enough to share.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 02, 2026 08:56 PM (DwqWV)

176 Some liberal woman was bitching on X today that we're targeting children by blowing up that bridge, because bridges have never been strategic military targets and civilian roads have no military use.

Not sure if actually that stupid or it's the meme about liberals pretending not to understand things in order to argue.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 08:56 PM (84SEz)

177 Day one of quitting smoking and I didn’t murder anyone. I’m calling that a win.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (u73oe)



Well done!

I quit years ago. Nicotine gum is the only thing that keeps me from going stabby. Still. Nicotine is a bitch.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:56 PM (syAfa)

178 Best I can tell from the show, no noodles and they're locked in a cell eating stale bread

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (gKWVE)

179 tcn, share! You provided a feast.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (+nEug)

180 Just came from Mass of the Lord's Supper.
Beautiful
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

Nice! Father also washed the feet of 12 (voluntold) parishioners. The pedicure lady had a full house today.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (cYBz/)

181 Hmmm, my rice cooker can hard-boiled eggs... and I have a bunch on hand.

And just bought some bacon.

And they are keto friendly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

182 Ben Had,
What is bacon bread? Bread using bacon grease as the shortening?

Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (dXTLm)

183 Hmmm, my rice cooker can hard-boiled eggs... and I have a bunch on hand.

And just bought some bacon.

And they are keto friendly.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

Are you expecting us to tell you no? Do it. You want to.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 08:59 PM (syAfa)

184 So what is Asian Hell? No noodles?
Posted by: Tom Servo


There are versions of Buddhism that have different existences you can be reborn into, and 'heaven' and 'hell' can describe the best and worst of them. They're not final destinations like in Christianity, though. You can screw up in heaven, or live a really great life in hell, and be reborn back here next go-round.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

185 Wenda, a glorious combination of bacon, cheese and bread.

RMBS 's dear friend made this for a MoMe and it was a delectable treat.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:02 PM (+nEug)

186 Look what we’re finding out about Noem

About her husband, anyway. I don't think there's any validated information about Noem actually being bad at her job, just the optics with that commercial.

Bondi's actually similar: she blew up the optics badly with the Epstein thing, but all of the failed prosecutions we know about were due to DC grand juries and Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 09:03 PM (84SEz)

187 Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 09:01 PM (VHUov)

I'm unfamiliar with the details (probably because Japan does its own thing, so anime is not much of a guide here) but I understand that the basis is the Hindu "Yama Courts". You get judged by the lawbooks of these Asian cultures, like disrespecting your parents is among the worst sins. Then you go to a hell that befits those sins, or the judges figure out a fitting reincarnation for you.
It's all a little baroque for a Westerner like myself.
I figure that someone who messes up bad enough in this life to be sent to a worse one, is unlikely to find any better help in the worse one.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 09:07 PM (gKWVE)

188 Best three ways to prepare eggs; poached, boiled, and preserved, -pickled in vinegar for longevity and spicy, -but not for breakfast.

Scrambled and over-easy are great but the less work the better.
Medium is right out, and fried-hard is only for sandwiches. Omelettes are always good, but more work.

I can't seem to get sunny-side up right without low heat and a little steam.

Easter eggs are a seasonal distraction.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 09:08 PM (UqSya)

189 Let's talk about the Cabinet members that are having to live on military bases, why don't we.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:08 PM (+nEug)

190 Day one of quitting smoking and I didn’t murder anyone. I’m calling that a win.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (u73oe)


You can do it, I am proof it is possible to cold turkey. It sucks though. Be prepared for it to suck.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)

191 So... I've seen enough. My prediction for 2028 is the DNC is going to run a mostly scripted circus primary intended to take all of the air out of the Republican side.

A bunch of fake shock jock style squabbling with a lot of Safe Branding, in-fighting, and most of all a constant drumbeat of all the focus grouped leftard pet issues. If they even bother with issues at all.

And out from the rubble, whoever the pre-chosen one is will emerge the "winner". Not sure who it is yet but it will more than likely be a man.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:09 PM (vE0+H)

192 Arby's Horsey Sauce or Woebers Sandwich Pal (pretty much the same) makes for some good deviled eggs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 09:11 PM (gm9Sb)

193 Day one of quitting smoking and I didn’t murder anyone. I’m calling that a win.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 08:52 PM (u73oe)

You can do it, I am proof it is possible to cold turkey. It sucks though. Be prepared for it to suck.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)

My Dad quit thrice. Third one stuck. Cig-free the last 30 years of his life.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:11 PM (0aYVJ)

194 I saw the horsey sauce for sale at some store.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:12 PM (vE0+H)

195 Good luck Duke. I'll say a prayer. For everyone around you.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:13 PM (vE0+H)

196 Tea eggs are an asian thing. Hard boil the eggs then roll them around and crackle the shells, and soak them for a couple three days in very strong tea. You can make the tea with extra salt and herbs like star anise and ginger.

They are pretty, and I guess they taste better too, but I never tasted much difference, but the whites get stained in a nice cobwebby pattern under the cracked shell.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

197 Congratulations, Duke.
My cold dead fingers will be clutching a Marlboro.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:14 PM (+nEug)

198 194 Walmart carries it. Arby's used to, but no more. Try the Woebers (it's probably the same stuff, made in Ohio where Arhy's started).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 09:15 PM (gm9Sb)

199 My cold dead fingers will be clutching a Marlboro.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:14 PM (+nEug)

This explains so much. Women who smoke have always loved me, since I was a tad. Not that I'm presuming, course.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:16 PM (vE0+H)

200 The bridge hit was interesting because it means our targeting has now moved to dual use civilian-military infrastructure. No longer just missile sites and regime targets.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 09:16 PM (pFJNq)

201 My cold dead fingers will always want a Marlboro.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:16 PM (syAfa)

202 Tom Servo. According to Tousi, that bridge had not been opened to civilians yet. Only to IRGC.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:18 PM (syAfa)

203 My cold dead fingers will always want a Marlboro.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:16 PM (syAfa)

You're not kidding.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 09:19 PM (snZF9)

204 Bondi, GONE. Didn't have the gusto so time to go go. MN Fraud, Antifa designated a DTO, Act blue....riots in MN and elsewhere causing violence and destruction. Terror attacks against Tesla and Tesla owners etc etc.....

Carmine Jr says "Whatever happened there....?"

Posted by: GigantorX at April 02, 2026 09:19 PM (yf0/N)

205 My cold dead fingers will always want a Marlboro.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:16 PM (syAfa)


Used to be that Camels tasted better and Bugler was cheaper.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

206 Pascal, the mathematician, had a family name derived from the French name of the Easter holiday.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 09:19 PM (to48P)

207 for sunny side up I use a piece of aluminum foil over the eggs as a reflector

cook both sides of the egg at the same time

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 09:20 PM (ZxPkt)

208 Is this someone who shares recipes? Because I'm a pretty good baker. My focaccia has a lot of fans.

Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:21 PM (dXTLm)

209 Horseradish is awesome. Dad always had horesradish mustard in the fridge.

And wasabi. I can tell when wasabi is made by a male sushi chef. Way stronger. Clears the nasal passages, I tell you.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:21 PM (0aYVJ)

210 Sorry. #208 should have been directed to Ben Had.

Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (dXTLm)

211 I can make an over easy egg that would make the Waffle House envious.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (+nEug)

212 Bad news, everyone.

Mona Charen
@monacharen
This is not "defeatism," it's defeat. America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (ndZc7)

213 Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:21 PM (dXTLm)

What do you usually put on yours? I make a mean one too but it's one of the easiest breads I make. Practically no kneading.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:23 PM (vE0+H)

214 I loved working at a Catholic place because every year on Holy Thursday the staff would ceremonially wash the feet of 12 residents, it was so loving and meaningful.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (RIvkX)

215 211 I can make an over easy egg that would make the Waffle House envious.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (+nEug)
----

But can you throw a chair at marauding customers with precision?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (kpS4V)

216 or Easter is from the time of Constantine reconciling other religions with Christianity, Easter/Estrus.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (YvvFZ)

217 My cold dead fingers will be clutching a Marlboro.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:14 PM (+nEug)

——————-

Me too, except I have a ten fold greater chance of a recurrence of my latest adventure and I REALLY don’t want to do that again. Add in the Remicade and the sepsis would likely get me next time. Pretty good reason, I think.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (u73oe)

218 205 My Dad smoked Raleigh non filters and would, every so often, get some Bugler roll your own as a treat. He liked the Raleighs for the coupons. Got me a sleeping bag and a gas engine model plane. I think he got the Bugler in an attempt to quit, having to work for a smoke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (gm9Sb)

219
Yesterday's full Moon was indeed the Paschal Moon, the first full Moon of astronomical spring, which determines Easter. In the Injun derived full moon names that have become popular, this is the Pink Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:25 PM (w6EFb)

220 Wenda, I will ask.. Deli is carrying a Caramelized onion and gruyere along with a green olive fougasse that are causing me extra weight gain.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:25 PM (+nEug)

221 When you've lost Mona Charen, you've lost a deluded Biden/Harris voter. She can EABOD.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:25 PM (syAfa)

222 Eris, hell no . I would just shoot them

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:27 PM (+nEug)

223 I can make an over easy egg that would make the Waffle House envious.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (+nEug)

I was a dishwasher goon/prep cook in an Alaska restaurant. The breakfast cook was a master of over easy eggs. No spatula, just really good pans and a flip. He also did omelets with a slightly larger pan. He always washed his own pans, and kept them in a separate spot, draped with towels.

Kind of an autist thing, perhaps.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:28 PM (0aYVJ)

224 Ha! Ben Had is not to be trifled with.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 02, 2026 09:28 PM (kpS4V)

225 Pickled quail eggs = why?

Pickled chicken eggs = good.

Pickled chicken eggs with beer = outstanding!

I don't mind some carrots and onions along with the eggs, but beets? No, thanks!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 09:29 PM (7D3Aa)

226 According to Tousi, that bridge had not been opened to civilians yet. Only to IRGC.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:18 PM (syAfa)


Cernovich spent this whole afternoon bemoaning that bridge and telling us that this meant Trump and the neocons were all doing it for revenge against the Iranian people.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 09:30 PM (gKWVE)

227 Pug , that is the way. My Aunts owned and restaurant and no one touched the egg pan.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:30 PM (+nEug)

228 Ben Had, I think I'll bring a coupla gallons of pickled eggs to the TxMoMe. Nurse can have some without asking permission . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 09:32 PM (7D3Aa)

229 King Chuck may or may not be a Muzzie, but one thing that is for sure is there will never be a Royal Navy battleship named after him

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 02, 2026 09:32 PM (PUrHv)

230
HAve the NASA press conference on in the background, and some one actually asked something along the lines of what can we expect for the pictures from the Moon, and why is SpaceX so good and you're so shitty. Well, he didn't say that, but it was implied.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:32 PM (w6EFb)

231 228 The Royal scow.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 09:33 PM (gm9Sb)

232 LRob, I will willingly accept them

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:33 PM (+nEug)

233 Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)
---

Is it possible that Microsnot will screw up a big company enough that the business world cuts them loose and chooses a better option?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:33 PM (YvvFZ)

234 I could not have a priest wash my feet. One look, and he would shout "Fetch me a farrier! Forthwith! Bring an angle grinder!"

I have hideous feet. A fist full of hooves.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:34 PM (0aYVJ)

235 Isn't Tampon King Charlie supposed to address Congress at the end of April? And Why?

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:34 PM (syAfa)

236 Wenda, a glorious combination of bacon, cheese and bread.

RMBS 's dear friend made this for a MoMe and it was a delectable treat.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:02 PM


That stuff is like crack. I'll have to see if I can get her up to the TxMoMe again this year.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 09:34 PM (Wnv9h)

237 RMBS, don't tease me. I would love to have the chance to visit with her again.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:36 PM (+nEug)

238
They're having problems with the GoPros too. Some of that commentary was funny. What do I do with this thing? Stow it and use the backup, MC replied. Where do we stow it? MC had to look up where the thing was supposed to be stowed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:37 PM (w6EFb)

239 Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:36 PM

I'll see what I can do.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 09:37 PM (Wnv9h)

240 Lord, you people and your food. Doesn't anyone eat an old fashion cheeseburger anymore?

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 09:38 PM (pvf3X)

241 I think he got the Bugler in an attempt to quit, having to work for a smoke.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 02, 2026 09:24 PM (gm9Sb)

And it didn't work, did it? Ask me how I know. Oooooh I feel like a cowboy. Ooohh I can make them fatter. Oooh my joint rolling skills will improve. oooooh...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 09:39 PM (snZF9)

242 Thanks, Ben Had.

... I make a sort of yeast mix with malt so that when I add it to a bread dough it goes vroom! For focaccia, I use lots of olive oil and rosemary from my garden.

Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:39 PM (dXTLm)

243 Lord, you people and your food. Doesn't anyone eat an old fashion cheeseburger anymore?
Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 09:38 PM (pvf3X)

———————

Still my favorite.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 09:40 PM (u73oe)

244
More problems. Apparently the girl astronaut's PC device (don't know what this is, a tablet of some sort maybe) locked up on her during TLI and is apparently bricked.

MC is troubleshooting that now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:40 PM (w6EFb)

245 226 According to Tousi, that bridge had not been opened to civilians yet. Only to IRGC.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:18 PM (syAfa)

Cernovich spent this whole afternoon bemoaning that bridge and telling us that this meant Trump and the neocons were all doing it for revenge against the Iranian people.
Posted by: gKWVE



Cernovich is an InFLuEncErZZZ. They're mostly con artists, fapping for clicks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 09:40 PM (ohOaC)

246 Wenda, I have taken to using focaccia as my hamburger bun.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 09:41 PM (+nEug)

247 I could not have a priest wash my feet. One look, and he would shout "Fetch me a farrier! Forthwith! Bring an angle grinder!"

I have hideous feet. A fist full of hooves.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:34 PM (0aYVJ)


Go to a nail salon. Seriously. It isn't unmanly. Get your feet done. Let them do your toenails. They've seen it all. They won't care if you look like a hobbit.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:41 PM (syAfa)

248 Bad news, everyone.

Mona Charen
@monacharen
This is not "defeatism," it's defeat. America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!


Yup,
All our major cities lie in ruins. Iranian air force flies at will over our skies....

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 09:41 PM (/lPRQ)

249 Nice! Father also washed the feet of 12 (voluntold) parishioners. The pedicure lady had a full house today.
Posted by: Tonypete

They are brave
I always hide when they ask for volunteers

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 09:41 PM (6U1c2)

250 Some liberal woman was bitching on X today that we're targeting children by blowing up that bridge, because bridges have never been strategic military targets and civilian roads have no military use.

-
Bridge Over the River Why?

Mohamad Safa
@mhdksafa
Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

-
If you can't trust a guy named Mohamad, who can you trust?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 09:42 PM (ndZc7)

251 The vultures are treating my roof like a flight deck. They have been back 8 days.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 08:13 PM (u82oZ)
~~~~~

One of my Goldens was in a 20-minute standoff with a turkey vulture over a dead groundhog. Of course, my dog just wanted to roll around on it for the eau de gopher, but the vulture wasn't having it.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 02, 2026 09:43 PM (3ImbR)

252 Artemis is cool and all, but it’s kinda sad that they’re doing basically the same thing Apollo 8 did almost sixty years ago. I know it’s going farther, but still.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 09:44 PM (u73oe)

253 243 Lord, you people and your food. Doesn't anyone eat an old fashion cheeseburger anymore?
Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 09:38 PM (pvf3X)

Had two for supper tonight. Black pepper, garlic powder, extra sharp cheddar.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 09:44 PM (Q+gd/)

254 They're having problems with the GoPros too. Some of that commentary was funny. What do I do with this thing? Stow it and use the backup, MC replied. Where do we stow it? MC had to look up where the thing was supposed to be stowed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:37 PM (w6EFb)

The pics from Artimis is an excellent indicator of how NASA has run their program. Total shit. People should shame them over this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 09:45 PM (g8Ew8)

255 King Chuck may or may not be a Muzzie, but one thing that is for sure is there will never be a Royal Navy battleship named after him
Posted by: Azjaeger

Because there will never be another battleship made after him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 09:45 PM (/lPRQ)

256 >> but it’s kinda sad that they’re doing basically the same thing Apollo 8 did almost sixty years ago

And not even as much, because they aren't going into lunar orbit. The Orion-SLS doesn't have to delta-v fuel budget to get into lunar orbit and back out within the required safety margins (stuff like early aborts and all that -- for about two days, if something bad happened, they could do an abort burn that would let them fall back to earth sooner. After that, they're committed to the slingshot around the Moon, couldn't get back any sooner).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:47 PM (w6EFb)

257 International law is a false construct that allows dudes named Mohammad to do whatever they what whilst we have one hand tied behind our backs. Fuck that.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:47 PM (syAfa)

258 248 Bad news, everyone.

Mona Charen
@monacharen
This is not "defeatism," it's defeat. America Lost. Iran Won. Trump Shat the Bed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!


Yup,
All our major cities lie in ruins. Iranian air force flies at will over our skies....
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher



They're already in ruins due to the repeal of Net Neutrality and Trump's tax cuts.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 09:47 PM (ohOaC)

259 make a sort of yeast mix with malt so that when I add it to a bread dough it goes vroom! For focaccia, I use lots of olive oil and rosemary from my garden.
Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:39 PM (dXTLm)

Oh hell yeah, that sounds awesome. I like to include a roasted red pepper sometimes on the top, onions, and some thin sliced garlic chips, which people love. Oh and parm sprinkled on five minutes before its out.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:47 PM (vE0+H)

260 Hamburgers started turning to crap when they stopped using poppy seed buns. I blame McDonald's.

All Beef Patty on a Sesame Seed Bun
Fuck You.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:48 PM (YvvFZ)

261 Oh, Ben Had, I am so stealing that! Not just hamburger. How about salami and provolone and olive oil drizzled over the focaccia. Maybe toast it so it absorbs more olive oil.

Posted by: Wenda at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (dXTLm)

262 Mohamad Safa
@mhdksafa
Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law



LoL!! Bless your heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (ohOaC)

263 I had a fabulous hamburger today. On a jalapeno cheese bun.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (syAfa)

264 Sorry that should have said roasted red pepper spread

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (vE0+H)

265
Another funny one. The astronauts were really rubbernecking looking out the windows during that perigee TLI burn.

So much so, they smudged up the windows pretty bad rubbing their noses and faces against them. They had to call down for window-cleaning procedures from Houston.

Even that requires procedures. Everything requires procedures.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (w6EFb)

266 They've seen it all. They won't care if you look like a hobbit.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:41 PM (syAfa)

You don't know the half of it. I hate when anyone touches my feet, even my own darling bride of 38 years. When I was a wee lad my mom had to literally pin me down to trim my toenails. I was so happy when I learned how to handle the clippers.

Why? who the hell knows? Best guess: *Jon Lovitz voice* I'm weird!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

267 Mona Charen
****

I thought she was dead.

Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 09:50 PM (R9n3z)

268 thought she was dead.
Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 09:50 PM (R9n3z)

Does brain count

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:50 PM (vE0+H)

269 Wenda,
What's your focaccia recipe?

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at April 02, 2026 09:50 PM (VCgbV)

270 Cheese on a burger is synonym with your drink - that's there money maker. The crap cheese on those burgers cost a penny, just like the soda you buy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:51 PM (YvvFZ)

271
They're already in ruins due to the repeal of Net Neutrality and Trump's tax cuts.
Posted by: Puddleglum


Whatever happened to tariffs?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 09:51 PM (Cqx++)

272 They're using windows?
*cringe*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 09:52 PM (GhIJO)

273 You don't know the half of it. I hate when anyone touches my feet, even my own darling bride of 38 years. When I was a wee lad my mom had to literally pin me down to trim my toenails. I was so happy when I learned how to handle the clippers.

Why? who the hell knows? Best guess: *Jon Lovitz voice* I'm weird!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (0aYVJ)

Fair enough. Some people don't like their feet messed with. I'm not one of those people, but get it.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:52 PM (syAfa)

274 Cernovich is an InFLuEncErZZZ. They're mostly con artists, fapping for clicks.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 09:40 PM (ohOaC)

Ask him about his date with a transman he thought was a woman. I nearly harfed and haven't read his stuff since. He wrote about it like it was either no big deal or funny. This was many years ago.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 09:52 PM (WONhk)

275 265
Another funny one. The astronauts were really rubbernecking looking out the windows during that perigee TLI burn.
---

Hopefully, a Russian turd won't hit the window as they are rubbernecking.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:53 PM (YvvFZ)

276 Mohamad Safa
@mhdksafa
Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

But Iran launching missiles willy-nilly at civilian targets is totes Halal (tm)!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 09:54 PM (/lPRQ)

277 Christy, it's not homosexual if it's just for sex.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:55 PM (YvvFZ)

278 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 09:52 PM (WONhk)

Christy I am so sorry for your news earlier and am praying.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:55 PM (vE0+H)

279 Oh, shit, it's, it's almost, but not quite, nood.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 09:56 PM (YvvFZ)

280 They're using windows?
*cringe*
Posted by: vmom


Wait until every device on the ship tries to download the latest security update all at once.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 09:56 PM (VHUov)

281 brioche burger buns

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 09:56 PM (ZxPkt)

282 Go to a nail salon. Seriously. It isn't unmanly. Get your feet done. Let them do your toenails"

Touch my feet and I will fall you. No quarter!

And your family too...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 09:56 PM (XuXeR)

283 Hamburgers started turning to crap when they stopped using poppy seed buns. I blame McDonald's.

-
When youngest Wrecks daughter was seven, we won a lottery to go to Puerto Vallarta. She was then in her most difficult eating phase and would eat only McDonald's cheeseburgers. Puerto Vallarta is not known for its cheeseburgers but there was a McDonald's on the other side of town. We spent an afternoon walking there in the heat and when we got there, she wouldn't eat because there were sesame seeds on the bun.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 09:57 PM (ndZc7)

284 Fair enough. Some people don't like their feet messed with. I'm not one of those people, but get it.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 02, 2026 09:52 PM (syAfa)

*fist bump*

It's weird, because I like scalp massages, and back rubs.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 09:57 PM (0aYVJ)

285 They're using windows?"

Clippy.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 09:57 PM (XuXeR)

286 Artemis is cool and all, but it’s kinda sad that they’re doing basically the same thing Apollo 8 did almost sixty years ago. I know it’s going farther, but still.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 09:44 PM (u73oe)

And splashing down in the ocean in a capsule to boot. How 1960's of them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 09:58 PM (snZF9)

287 everybody talks about 'international law'

where can I get a copy

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 09:59 PM (ZxPkt)

288 @265

>> Even that requires procedures. Everything requires procedures.

Well, when you’re in a zero failure situation, you’re going to look pretty silly when you are in front of St Peter and he’s giving you a ration of shit for not following the check list.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 09:59 PM (XV/Pl)

289 I do a great foot massage. Don't tickle or nuthin'.

Posted by: Jules at April 02, 2026 09:59 PM (Q+gd/)

290
So much so, they smudged up the windows pretty bad rubbing their noses and faces against them. They had to call down for window-cleaning procedures from Houston.

Even that requires procedures. Everything requires procedures. Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)


Are they sent up there knowing nothing on their own?

Are they babes in the woods?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:00 PM (xG4kz)

291 And splashing down in the ocean in a capsule to boot. How 1960's of them"

Space X would splashdown in a kiddie pool... on a moving flatbed....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 10:00 PM (XuXeR)

292 So much so, they smudged up the windows pretty bad rubbing their noses and faces against them.

-
My poodle does the same thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:00 PM (ndZc7)

293 Artemis is cool and all, but it’s kinda sad that they’re doing basically the same thing Apollo 8 did almost sixty years ago. I know it’s going farther, but still.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 09:44 PM (u73oe)

And splashing down in the ocean in a capsule to boot. How 1960's of them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


And using leftover 80s tech.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (/lPRQ)

294
Assumption, cow is dead so I'll drag it off at the end of the day. Call the owners of said cow to let them know.

Fire up tractor and gather chains... the cow got up and walked away.
Posted by: Ben Had


That was a cow decoy.

You are lucky to have escaped with your life!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (xG4kz)

295 Doof is here.

Posted by: clarence at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (R9n3z)

296 everybody talks about 'international law'

where can I get a copy
Posted by: Don Black

IHOP?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 10:01 PM (ndZc7)

297 Wrecks, my daughter sort of became a vegetarian at age 6.
When we dined at McDs on the road, she would take the beef patty off and give it to one of her brothers. They found this funny. Her meatless phase lasted about 3 years and then - look out!

Posted by: LRob in OK at April 02, 2026 10:02 PM (7D3Aa)

298 Christy I am so sorry for your news earlier and am praying.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 09:55 PM (vE0+H)


Thank you for your prayers for son and DIL. I pray all will be well with no fear in the future.

She's so sweet it nearly breaks me to think about. They were so excited.

We will have faith that all will be well soon, as many go through this (including her own mother). I feel sure there is a lot of support in Florida. I can only provide prayers. Thanks again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:04 PM (WONhk)

299
Artemis is cool and all, but it’s kinda sad that they’re doing basically the same thing Apollo 8 did almost sixty years ago. I know it’s going farther, but still.

Posted by: Duke Lowell


It's more like Apollo 13 without the system failures. They are on a free return path back to Earth (no orbits, right?).

Up to now, the crew of Apollo 13 has held the record as the humans who had traveled furthest from Earth, owing to their having taken a free return path to swing around the Moon. All other Apollo missions performed a lunar insertion burn that put their crafts into orbit around the Moon.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 10:05 PM (xG4kz)

300 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 10:04 PM (WONhk)

I'm so sorry for them. There is nothing anyone can say really. I will pray for amazing things to come.

My mom miscarried before having me. But then again I was an accident and she always wanted me to know that. So I guess it takes all kinds?

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (vE0+H)

301 I'm so sorry for them. There is nothing anyone can say really. I will pray for amazing things to come.

My mom miscarried before having me. But then again I was an accident and she always wanted me to know that. So I guess it takes all kinds?
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 10:11 PM (vE0+H)

Thank you. And you were NOT an accident.

God makes no mistakes.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 11:15 PM (WONhk)

302 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 11:15 PM (WONhk)

You're sweet. 😁

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 11:47 PM (vE0+H)

Quick Hits

newsomeobana.jpg

Where are his grades and SATs and LSATs?

Chuck Schumer, when asked if he gives any credit to Trump for paying TSA agents after 42 days without pay: "No."

Australia's woke PM Steve Albanese wants to censor alternative media because it's "not consistent" with leftwing propaganda media.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

2h

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese criticizes people getting news from social media because it's "misinformation," and not "consistent" like legacy news outlets.

Who here trusts the "consistent" legacy media?

"There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

Don Ballfingers Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment" when I was perp-walked as any criminal would be.

A Democrat representative, "Shomari Figures" -- I'm not sure if that's a human name or a new He-Man character (like maybe he has numbers for eyes or something) -- wanted to prove that black people are too dumb to get ID to vote. So he asked the members of a black church how many of them had failed to obtain this exotic, elusive object called "personal identification." Literally no one said they did not have identification so he quickly pivoted to a different point.

King Charles, long rumored to have secretly converted to Islam, not only issued Ramadan greetings during Lent, not only urged British citizens to learn more about Islam, but now says he will not issue any Easter message this year.

Oh well, Easter's not a big Christian holy day or anything I guess.

This post contains a bunch of claims about Charles' alleged conversion to Islam, which I have never heard and certainly cannot verify, but fuck this cuck.


I didn't even consider the Flat Earthers during yesterday's launch. How could I not think of the Flat Earthers? Apparently they're having a bad time, given that their whole stupid "the earth is totally flat you guys and NASA just fakes photos of a round earth" Identity.

So they're back to their usual cope. They claim that the rocket shown on video was actually an "inflatable," a large rocket-shaped dummy balloon to con the rubes.

He then repeats one of Cavernous Nostrils' key proofs for the moon landing being fake, to wit, how can they receive communications in space when Candace has problems getting cell phone coverage in the city? She actually said that. And she said it about radio transmissions during the 1969 moon landing. She showed no awareness at all that there was a kind of "wireless communication" available before she first got her cell phone in 2004.

I would say this account is a spoof, but... they really do believe and claim these things. So even if it is a goof, it's still just repeating actual conspiracy theory claims.

All systems are go!

So... is it a joke? Maybe but the stupidity is very real.

And now I think it's really real again.

This is legitimately amazing.

As you may have observed, the Nazi-curious podcast bros can no longer book any non-Nazi guests so they form an endless daisy chain of appearing on each other's little shows for "interviews" that consist of them going over the same exact ground as during the last "interview."

"Comic" Dave Smith is next again in Tucker Carlson's 9 Nazi Batting order.

And the place he goes to -- which even Tucker Carlson seems to have trouble believing he went to -- is just absolutely amazing. Thrilling, I would say. Sometimes a lie is just so brazen and absurd you're not even mad. You're appreciative. You just involuntarily stand and slow-clap and say "Bravo, Sir, Bravissimo!"

I think Tucker Carlson was closer to the truth when he started this clip by saying, "It's hardly my job to defend Jewish Americans." Yes, I think we are all agreed that this is not your job.

Here's "Comic" Dave Smith hosting and feting various other "leading fighters against antisemitism in this country."

Leo Austin
@sox_leo

48m

That show was perfectly timed -- April Fool's Day.

Ah! That explains it.

By the way, the only reason Tucker Carlson agrees that antisemitism is on the rise is because he wants to suggest that Israelis -- Jews -- are increasing antisemitism and it's within their power to arrest this rise in antisemitism if they just stop being dirty treacherous Jews all the time.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:42 PM




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Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (GD0B3)

2 not only urged British citizens to learn more about Islam

What if we did?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (gKWVE)

3 As you may have observed, the Nazi-curious podcast bros can no longer book any non-Nazi guests so they form an endless daisy chain of appearing on each other's little shows for "interviews" that consist of them going over the same exact ground as during the last "interview."

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never marry your sister !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (GD0B3)

4 I haven't seen it because I don't watch but I hear Candace said on a show she had no idea that lightning and thunder were related...

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (YwEeS)

5 Jews are responsible for antisemitism! That is been around for at least 2000 years.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (GD0B3)

6 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers
......

She just wants me to date her.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (UjdFS)

7 Gah! That fugly son of a hoor. Got so fkn sick and tired of seeing it *everywhere* those horrible 8 years...

Posted by: JQ at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (rdVOm)

8 I'd just as soon King Charles keep mention of my religion out of his fifty Muslim mouth.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 06:48 PM (wBaIH)

9 Ovens had a problem wrapping her 60 IQ brain around existence of and dinosaurs. So there you go.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:48 PM (GD0B3)

10 7 The purple lipped cocksucker

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 06:48 PM (YwEeS)

11 The French police are surrendering.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (UjdFS)

12 Who here trusts the "consistent" legacy media?

Well, you need the entire Media Complex to work together to make the lies more believable; the truth is inconvenient or worse and just gets in the way.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

13 "Chuck Schumer, when asked if he gives any credit to Trump for paying TSA agents after 42 days without pay"

Dems sure do love them some slaves...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (Xu7kS)

14 She showed no awareness at all that there was a kind of "wireless communication" available before she first got her cell phone in 2004.

How could a big spaceship with thick metal walls receive radio communication when my tinfoil hat is enough to block powerful Jew beams from entering my mind!?!?!?!

Posted by: Candace Owens at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (ycI94)

15 Looks like B.O. had his ears pinned back for that photo.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (UjdFS)

16 and RT if that pic up top sets off your gaydar. jfc

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (Xu7kS)

17 Newsom's avatar is wearing crown? I'm sure it's because he's an LA Kings fan and not his aspiration to be a king.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (5yDGQ)

18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wS8B1Qp5kQ

0berry Davis

Posted by: Desinex at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (jrgJz)

19 Anthony Burgess was mocking Charles as a muslim 40 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

20 There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

So, Crocodile Dundee style?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (XuXeR)

21 4 I haven't seen it because I don't watch but I hear Candace said on a show she had no idea that lightning and thunder were related...

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (YwEeS)

She DOES seem to have problems with cause and effect...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (ynpvh)

22 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

You mean the Ole "Austin Powers" Test is 100% Accurate ??

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (cAEZx)

23
King Tampon believes so much in everything that he believes in nothing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (xG4kz)

24 Some guy was claiming the moon landing had to be fake because Nixon was talking to the astronauts on a phone in the Oval Office, and there are no phones on the moon so duh...

Yeah, amateur radio operators had been doing phone patches for decades before the Apollo program.

Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (NlRIv)

25 I find the Pakistan video frightening.

Rest assured, modern American policing has roots in British systems—specifically the London Metropolitan Police.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:52 PM (NFX2v)

26 Commander Shit Stain on the cover.
Wooo Hu

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:52 PM (YvvFZ)

27 Only about an hour until the translunar injection burn...Where we find out if NASA still has the right stuff...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 06:53 PM (ESVrU)

28 King Charles is an arrogant SOB and a complete disaster in preserving whatever British culture exists. At this point, he's as anti-UK as Democrats are anti-American. He shamelessly slobbers over Islam. He's contributing to converting his country and will leave William and his descendants with a quite possibly the end of the Monarchy. At least he got to spend his life living like a privileged, pampered, useless piece of garbage with a want for nothing. Jug eared, ugly mofo. He's an abomination.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 06:53 PM (qBdHI)

29 As you may have observed, the Nazi-curious podcast bros can no longer book any non-Nazi guests so they form an endless daisy chain of appearing on each other's little shows for "interviews" that consist of them going over the same exact ground as during the last "interview."
====

Yes, I've started to notice.

Also, I have never seen a clip of Comic Dave Smith doing, you know, comedy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:53 PM (RIvkX)

30 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wS8B1Qp5kQ

0berry Davis

Posted by: Desinex at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (jrgJz)

My kid needs a breathalyzer...but not for asthma...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

31 [O/T -- ]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

I would like to thank the hardworking Commissioners and Staff of the National Capital Planning Commission, who just voted overwhelmingly, 8-1, to approve the magnificent White House Ballroom now rising on this Hallowed Ground. I am pleased to announce that even Board Member Senator Rand Paul, known as an extraordinarily difficult vote, voted a strong YES. For more than 150 years, every President has dreamt about having a Ballroom at the White House to accommodate people for Grand Parties, State Visits, and even, in the Modern Day, Inaugurations. I am honored to be the first President to finally get this much-needed project, which is on time and under budget, underway. When completed, it will be the Greatest and Most Beautiful Ballroom of its kind anywhere in the World, and a fabulous complement to our Beautiful and Storied White House! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (PZZ/j)

32 27 They fix the shitter?

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (YwEeS)

33 If King Cuck had any honor, he'd abdicate. But taquiyya > honor, I guess.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (Xu7kS)

34 We have funnier comics at the HQ. Fenelon probably does literal sermons with better jokes than anything Dave Smith says.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (gKWVE)

35 24 Some guy was claiming the moon landing had to be fake because Nixon was talking to the astronauts on a phone in the Oval Office, and there are no phones on the moon so duh...

Yeah, amateur radio operators had been doing phone patches for decades before the Apollo program.

Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (NlRIv)

And the rainbows that water makes when it's sprayed is due to pollution...

And fire can't melt steel...

Lots of Einsteins.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

36 I think the SAT Test is BS anyway...

I remember kids taking practice SAT Tests which all they were doing is memorizing questions and answers....

SAT does not prove you can think and reason logically.....
Obama, Biden, and all these Brain-Dead Democrats brag about getting 1500 on their SAT and a have Bat Poop for Brains and cannot figure out how to change a light bulb.

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 02, 2026 06:55 PM (cAEZx)

37 Some guy was claiming the moon landing had to be fake because Nixon was talking to the astronauts on a phone in the Oval Office, and there are no phones on the moon so duh...

Yeah, amateur radio operators had been doing phone patches for decades before the Apollo program.
Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (NlRIv)

They had a really big spool of wire like the coms guys in the Army back in the day.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)

38
That Jugears McFuckstick is considered by some to be a President with a brain ought to be ...

... I cannot finish -- I am far too disheartened by contemplating how flatlined so many EEGs are in this country.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:56 PM (xG4kz)

39 Don Ballfingers Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment" when I was perp-walked as any criminal would be.
==

Shit Stain, you are a criminal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:56 PM (YvvFZ)

40 The London Met is rooted in racism and white supremacy and slave patrols and the IDF so that's why they got chased out h8ers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:56 PM (RIvkX)

41 27 Only about an hour until the translunar injection burn...Where we find out if NASA still has the right stuff...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 06:53 PM (ESVrU)

Sounds like a problem with a tranny's ass implant surgery...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 06:56 PM (ynpvh)

42 Where are his grades and SATs and LSATs?

-------------

Do they keep track of grades in Kenya and Indonesia?

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (seACy)

43 Anthony Burgess was mocking Charles as a muslim 40 years ago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:50 PM (RIvkX)

A lot of Brits have this odd Lawrence of Arabia thing going on.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (8avO+)

44 Sorry, France. Whatever. Who cares? Fvck France.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (RIvkX)

45 France is finished.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (HW/1v)

46 They fix the shitter?
Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (YwEeS)

Cousin Eddie should have been a crew member.

Live and learn.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (0aYVJ)

47 >> Only about an hour until the translunar injection burn...

7:49 EDT. This will happen right at (or very near) the moment of perigee of the current high elliptical orbit. All the timing and launch windows and previous burning were to achieve the proper alignment in the Moon's orbital plane. See the tracker here:
https://is.gd/53g1Sg

That thing appears to be slow loading now -- maybe high load. But it's 3D and you can see the trajectory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (w6EFb)

48 Wild scenes from Pakistan, as Islamist mobs chase the police out of their neighborhood 👇

Sorry for the typo, this is France.
---
Just click your heels and repeat "No-go zones are a myth! No-go zones are a myth!"

Geez, they gaslight us at every stop.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (Fi81e)

49 I don't recall seeing this reported here. Did I/we miss it, or is the Left blowing something out of proportion?

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service. The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Gifford Pinchot built the system over a century ago — and with them, the career professionals who spent entire lifetimes earning the expertise and the authority to push back when politicians came calling with bad ideas and worse motives. They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone...

That's just the tip of a giant article of fear and doom: https://tinyurl.com/4rt78ezt
Get your pudding cups ready if you read it lol

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (ycI94)

50 So Harry and Meg on the wrong side again, or not?

Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan's foundation cuts ties to Muslim group over 'hateful words'
USA TODAY
April 20, 2025

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (NFX2v)

51 Tucker should do a game show, "The Nazi Squares" like the hollywood squares, but with his normal guests. I don't know who the Paul Lynde of nazis is, which you would definitely need, so it may take some work getting a good balance but I think he should give it a try.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (3uBP9)

52 Don Ballfingers Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment" when I was perp-walked as any criminal would be.

At least you're a two trick pony.

You either pull the race card or the homo card .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (V4IXI)

53 >> Some guy was claiming the moon landing had to be fake because Nixon was talking to the astronauts on a phone in the Oval Office,

I was just going to mention that. That plays big in this. "Hah, hah, how can you have a land line going to the Moon?"

These people are retarded lunatics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (w6EFb)

54 Chuck Schumer, when asked if he gives any credit to Trump for paying TSA agents after 42 days without pay: "No."

-----------

Why haven't the Democrat-Communists enlisted US District Clown Judge and Defacto POTUS KING Bozoberg to halt those payments?

/I mean, this simply cannot stand!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (seACy)

55 Before the summer's over muslim mobs will be tearing French policemen to pieces.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (LHPAg)

56 Willow'd:

>> Not that I trust Fox News, but I’d have to say of all of Trump’s picks that both the administrative state and the institutional left in general want out most, it would be Tulsi Gabbard. Having a once high profile Democrat and woman in a current high profile position hurts their attempt to say Trump is extreme.

It highlights who the extremists really are. This isn’t to say she shouldn’t be fired if she’s screwing up, but it would be a welcome scalp to the left.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (EXyHK)


Is there a heuristic where you can tell how likely Trump is to keep or fire someone by who their enemies are, or has he been as likely to fire people that are only hated by the left (but disappointed him somehow)? Does the Hordemind care to take a crack at it?

Posted by: SciVo at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (Sy6m/)

57 Wild scenes from Pakistan, as Islamist mobs chase the police out of their neighborhood 👇

Sorry for the typo, this is France.


But I told him that was my no-no square!!!

Posted by: Confused raped French woman who won't report to the police because that would make her racist at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (ycI94)

58 I would really like to see King Charles versus Megan Markle in a cage match.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 02, 2026 06:59 PM (EKyBq)

59 That thing appears to be slow loading now -- maybe high load. But it's 3D and you can see the trajectory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (w6EFb)
---
They just switched from the Deep Space Network to a different network used by ISS. Could be why it's experiencing some technical difficulties right now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:00 PM (ESVrU)

60 "Chuck Schumer, when asked if he gives any credit to Trump for paying TSA agents after 42 days without pay: "No."

Chucky wants to torture average voters (apparently) so they will support his commie agenda items. Evil Chucky thinks that strategy works, since all MFM will back him up, but perhaps the tides are turning? (or the worm has turned?)

Orwellian psychology is very powerful, and many live in leftist delusional theater -- cosplay worlds.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:00 PM (vbXSk)

61 King Charles, long rumored to have secretly converted to Islam, not only issued Ramadan greetings during Lent, not only urged British citizens to learn more about Islam, but now says he will not issue any Easter message this year.

This is the same man who, IIRC, told Camilla on a phonecall that was recorded & leaked, that he wanted to be her tampon.

What part of your body do they cut off for committing that offense in Islam?

If William III turns out to be as much of a simp-cuck to the Religion of Submission as Chuck III is, then the U.K. is truly and well screwed (even more than currently).

The man is supposed to be the head of the Church of England and he won't even issue an Easter message that his minions can write for him?

That's insulting to the (real) English people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

62
Why couldn't king Chas just have gone ahead and converted to a tampon* for his bulldog faced sweetie, instead of

converting to Islam?



*King Chuck's real life erotic wishcasting.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (iJfKG)

63 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (ycI94)

Utah is much closer to monstroustly huge tracts of Fed land that the US forest service needs to monitor that is Washington DC. I say ship a good number of them to Alaska...it has lots of forest...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (ynpvh)

64 "so they form an endless daisy chain of appearing on each other's little shows"

next up on The Tucker Carlson Elephant Walk Hour...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (Xu7kS)

65 Birthright Citizenship Update:

Dem Rep Delia Ramirez, who was born in the US to a mom who illegally entered the country — today has called for...

===

Yes, their citizenship status should be stripped and deported to wait for Mom's release from prison.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (/lPRQ)

66 51 Tucker should do a game show, "The Nazi Squares" like the hollywood squares, but with his normal guests. I don't know who the Paul Lynde of nazis is, which you would definitely need, so it may take some work getting a good balance but I think he should give it a try.
Posted by: banana Dream

Ideally, you'd have to draw a swastika to win instead of just getting 3 in a row, but that might be tough with just 9 squares.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (ycI94)

67 A funny aside about the U.S. Forest Service, do not ever accidently call them the U.S. Forestry Service. They don't like that and will take a good amount of time explaining your error.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Lumberjack in training at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP9)

68 Perhaps for tomorrow?

Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George
Updated on: April 2, 2026 / 6:05 PM EDT / CBS News

It's all just too much for today.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (NFX2v)

69 He spewed Marxist rhetoric

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (Ia/+0)

70 Most things are a capital-O Op. Once you look at everything from the perspective of the sowing of discord and division (with the end goal of Marxist Dictatorship), you end up with zero further questions.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (vE0+H)

71 There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-
Don't go commando!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:02 PM (ndZc7)

72 67 A funny aside about the U.S. Forest Service, do not ever accidently call them the U.S. Forestry Service. They don't like that and will take a good amount of time explaining your error.
Posted by: banana Dream - Space Lumberjack in training at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP

Well now that I know that guess what I will call them if the opportunity ever arises.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:02 PM (V4IXI)

73 Who is Dave Smith?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

74 Frenchie police should have returned a whiff of grape.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:03 PM (/lPRQ)

75 France ,Germany and the UK kill off their working class and import millions of benefit seeking jihadis.

Only difference between them and us is there are no kebab trucks.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:03 PM (+nEug)

76 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

Trust the Science (TM), though I suggest wearing latex gloves.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:03 PM (glnUu)

77 >>>the rocket shown on video was actually an "inflatable," a large rocket-shaped dummy balloon to con the rubes.
---

And the vapor trail, the hugest ever. The amount of chemicals spewed into the atmosphere by govt planes pale in comparison to the amount by that rocket. Florida is changed forever.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 07:03 PM (YvvFZ)

78 Utah is much closer to monstroustly huge tracts of Fed land that the US forest service needs to monitor that is Washington DC. I say ship a good number of them to Alaska...it has lots of forest...
Posted by: jim

But Kate Upton lives in Florida, and her huge tracts of land also need careful watching and attention.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 02, 2026 07:03 PM (ycI94)

79 Your blog, your rules, ace...


But can I mildly suggest that three posts in one day about Tuqr and/or Cavernous Nostrils is just kinda...heavy?

I mean fuck these assholes in general and I know your stance that not talking about them doesn't help, but I fancy a middle ground.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (oqH4h)

80 I would really like to see King Charles versus Megan Markle in a cage match.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

Grudge match.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (ndZc7)

81 Looked him up. Still have no idea who he is.

He does not meet the Dane Cook level of comedians ace references.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

82 Ugh, it's hard to see the visage of the SCFOAMF upon refresh. It's like a flashback of being tied to the TX Chainsaw Massacre family table and unable to escape the nightmare.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (qBdHI)

83 Don Ballfingers Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment" when I was perp-walked as any criminal would be.

-------------

"I will offer $100,000 to the United Negro Homosexual Retarded College Fund for any (especially video) proof of this."

-- Zombie Andrew Breitbart

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (seACy)

84 That Obama Meme from "Newsom" was a direct DNC sponsored counter to Trump's embarrasingly effective branding of the Obamas a few months back.

Why did Trump brand the Obamas in a way people cannot get away from every time they look at them? Because they wield too much unearned power and cachet. This is how he fights.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (vE0+H)

85 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

You mean the Ole "Austin Powers" Test is 100% Accurate ??
Posted by: Jackson K.
===

Are there any males playing on women's teams that have actually been castrated?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (/lPRQ)

86 67 A funny aside about the U.S. Forest Service, do not ever accidently call them the U.S. Forestry Service. They don't like that and will take a good amount of time explaining your error.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Lumberjack in training at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (3uBP9)

"Is it poisonous or venomous?"
"Yes"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

87 Ugh, it's hard to see the visage of the SCFOAMF upon refresh. It's like a flashback of being tied to the TX Chainsaw Massacre family table and unable to escape the nightmare.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 07:04 PM (qBdHI)

---------

lol

I had a vague sense of what it must have been like to have experienced horrible "bad trip" LSD flashbacks ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (seACy)

88 Helprin's Freddy & Fredericka is really about Charles and Diana but in alternate history. He explains the whole tampon thing away by Freddy discussing fish, specifically a tarpon but it all got misconstrued. It is actually a very funny and heartwarming book like a lot of Helprin's works are.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Lumberjack in training at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (3uBP9)

89 Hey, at least the French cops decided they'd rather run some dickheads over with their cars rather than watch the windshield get beat in followed by their rapid extraction from the front seat.

At least somebody with authority in France has an instinct for survival.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:05 PM (6ydKt)

90
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Are there any males playing on women's teams that have actually been castrated?

[oops]

It seems she doubts there are any.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (/lPRQ)

91 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

I'll do it.

99 times out of 100 it'll not be scary.

70% of the time, it might be fun.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b)

92 Chucky wants to torture average voters (apparently) so they will support his commie agenda items. Evil Chucky thinks that strategy works, since all MFM will back him up, but perhaps the tides are turning? (or the worm has turned?)

Orwellian psychology is very powerful, and many live in leftist delusional theater -- cosplay worlds.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:00 PM (vbXSk)
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Schumer is a power-mad retard that sees the writing on the wall that his run of the mill Democrat stupidity will lose him a primary to AOC, so he's going Full Retard to prove that he's a true culture warrior for the left.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (oqH4h)

93 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers
---
Um.. A blood test?

All school athletes normally need to get a physical.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (Fi81e)

94 Fun Fact: I've seen the sneaky neighborhood Jews kill the local feral dogs and feed them to muslims in take-out with chickpeas.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (UqSya)

95 I think this is a hate crime in Britain

https://tinyurl.com/27z2ufj5

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (rbvCR)

96 "King Charles, long rumored to have secretly converted to Islam"

Didn't even consider putting that one my 2026 bingo card. Isn't King Overbite the head of the Church of England? That is going to make for an awkward moment when the Easter ham is served.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (glnUu)

97 Are there any males playing on women's teams that have actually been castrated?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (/lPRQ)
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It's definitely not schlong-bouncing Lia as "she" walks through the girls' lockerroom.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:08 PM (Fi81e)

98 Hey king Chuckles: Everthing I need to know about islam was learned on Sept. 11. 2001.

Posted by: Cosda at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (fK3VZ)

99
If you want another hoot, scroll down that FlatEarthTruth feed 'till you get to the "Tartaria" stuff. And the "mud flood".

That's another big one. History is all fake and gay, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (w6EFb)

100 What Church of England? That fucker died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (+nEug)

101 Didn't even consider putting that one my 2026 bingo card. Isn't King Overbite the head of the Church of England? That is going to make for an awkward moment when the Easter ham is served.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (glnUu)

I have heard the charge before. Going on 10 years back. Supposedly one of the reasons QEII was not particularly enthused with her offspring.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

102 I have no fucks left to give about Europe. I feel for the couple of countries who don't hate us with a passion . They just dislike us .

I would like a complete disconnect from them military and economically. Concentrate on our hemisphere neighbors to make them stronger than Europe.

Now what to do about Canada?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (V4IXI)

103 >>> "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

I'll do it.

99 times out of 100 it'll not be scary.

70% of the time, it might be fun.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (Sco7b)


Excellent callback to my Flap Meat comment in the last thread. This is how you do things people!

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Lumberjack in training at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (3uBP9)

104 [Nancy's daughter] Christine Pelosi
@sfpelosi
Deep thanks to the Supreme Court sketch artist who produced this masterpiece as Justice Jackson schooled the birther-in-chief on #BirthrightCitizenship.

https://is.gd/9m6RkS

-
I've got it! The moon shot was fake and this is real.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:10 PM (ndZc7)

105 Don Ballfingers Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment" when I was perp-walked as any criminal would be.

At least you're a two trick pony.
You either pull the race card or the homo card .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

===

'Nancy' LeMon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:10 PM (/lPRQ)

106 King Charles, long rumored to have secretly converted to Islam, not only issued Ramadan greetings during Lent, not only urged British citizens to learn more about Islam, but now says he will not issue any Easter message this year.

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I gotta admit, it really irks me when Trump praises that tampon as a "great guy" or whatever he constantly refers to him as.

Of course, this is Trump -- who claims to be BFFs with Kim Jong Un, Chairman "Winnie the Pooh" Xi, and Putin.

Ugh.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:10 PM (seACy)

107 History is all fake and gay, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (w6EFb)
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I have suspected such, in the past.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:10 PM (Fi81e)

108 Are there any males playing on women's teams that have actually been castrated?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:06 PM (/lPRQ)

I think Renee Richards was fully transitioned but he was terrible so it wasn't a big deal at the time.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:11 PM (V4IXI)

109 100 What Church of England? That fucker died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (+nEug)

They just appointed the first female archbishop of Canterbury.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:11 PM (6ydKt)

110 So they're back to their usual cope. They claim that the rocket shown on video was actually an "inflatable," a large rocket-shaped dummy balloon to con the rubes.

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"No way #Woke NASA would pollute the environment with a Mylar Balloon, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (seACy)

111 >>> Some guy was claiming the moon landing had to be fake because Nixon was talking to the astronauts on a phone in the Oval Office, and there are no phones on the moon so duh...

I'm 90% sure we went to the moon, but the argument is there should have been more of a delay in the back and forth nature of the phone call.

Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (q177U)

112 Islamist mobs chase French cops.

Contrast with Italy, the other day, arrested 91 antifa in one fell swoop.
Contrast with US pulling in 4 out of 40.

We are going to be France if we keep
restricting cops from doing a full job.
What was it that screwed our guys in the sandbox?
ROE, stupid ROEs degrade efficacy and get our people killed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (YvvFZ)

113 I didn't even consider the Flat Earthers during yesterday's launch. How could I not think of the Flat Earthers?

Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)

114 Look out! Canada's butthurt!

Frank J. Fleming
@IMAO_
Why are we letting a Canadian go to our moon?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (ndZc7)

115 History was written by the queers.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (Fi81e)

116 Ugh.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:10 PM (seACy)

That's just the salesman in Trump.
He schmoozes everybody... until they cross him.
Then he unloads like the St. Valentines Day Massacre.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:13 PM (6ydKt)

117 How do the flat earthers explain the other celestial bodies they can see with the naked eye or telescope?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:13 PM (V4IXI)

118 I didn't even consider the Flat Earthers during yesterday's launch. How could I not think of the Flat Earthers?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)
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Funny thing, is that's exactly what I thought of.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:13 PM (Fi81e)

119 Wifey just asked is "Cavernous Nostrils" Candace Owens?

"Yes, but I prefer to call her Cavernous Orifices (Orifi?)."

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:14 PM (seACy)

120 How do the flat earthers explain the other celestial bodies they can see with the naked eye or telescope?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:13 PM (V4IXI)
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Jewish tricks.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:14 PM (Fi81e)

121 They just switched from the Deep Space Network to a different network used by ISS. Could be why it's experiencing some technical difficulties right now.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:00 PM (ESVrU)


That or their Microsoft Teams has packed it in again.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:14 PM (rbvCR)

122 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers
---
Um.. A blood test?

All school athletes normally need to get a physical.
Posted by: Axeman

===

How do they do the
"Turn your head and cough" test for the girls?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:14 PM (/lPRQ)

123 "There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"

-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers

DNA, with X and Y chromosomes, laugh.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:15 PM (u82oZ)

124 109 100 What Church of England? That fucker died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (+nEug)

They just appointed the first female archbishop of Canterbury.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
---

name is changed. it is now
Archbishop of Canterbutt.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 07:15 PM (YvvFZ)

125 ... one of Cavernous Nostrils' key proofs for the moon landing being fake, to wit, how can they receive communications in space when Candace has problems getting cell phone coverage in the city?

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"Believe us, it's a lot easier to control radio transmissions than it is to control the weather!"

/The Jooos

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:15 PM (seACy)

126 Jug eared, ugly mofo. He's an abomination.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Plus, chinless, gut-eating, moslem homo.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 02, 2026 07:15 PM (cxFcK)

127 How do the flat earthers explain the other celestial bodies they can see with the naked eye or telescope?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Vague conspiracy theories.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:15 PM (glnUu)

128 That or their Microsoft Teams has packed it in again.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:14 PM (rbvC

Trying to get ahold of 'Tony' at the help desk in Mumbai .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (V4IXI)

129 Going on 40 years now since Camilla needed a tampon.

Posted by: The Sands of Time at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (oY1HT)

130 SpeakingOf, who better to oversee the demise of Christianity in England.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (+nEug)

131 Orion is really moving along now...14,000+ mph and increasing rapidly as it nears its lowest altitude: 115 miles above the Earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (ESVrU)

132 Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)


Out of order?! Fuck! Even in the future nothing works!

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (6ydKt)

133 Why are we letting a Canadian go to our moon?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (ndZc7)
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He could always consider suicide on the way there.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (Fi81e)

134 >> but the argument is there should have been more of a delay in the back and forth nature of the phone call.

All of these objections have been answered -- at one time there was a site that went through all these "plausible sounding" objections (the nutter stuff is ignored, you can't reason with crazy).

There was a delay as expected. It was edited out in a lot of the broadcasts. Now, the way it works. Nixon says "hell". Takes 2 seconds to get to the Moon. Then Armstrong hears it. He replies. Takes another 2 seconds to get back.

Now, on Nixon's end, there is a big delay between when he talks and Armstrong reponds, but no delay between Nixon responding to Armstrong, because we're listening on the same end.

One the Moon it was just opposite. From Armstrong's frame, he replied to Nixon with no delay, and there was a big delay for Nixon's reply.

Again, many networks at the time just edited out that delay because it was annoying and time consuming.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (w6EFb)

135 >>> Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)


[astronaut uses CTRL-F to search email, entire universe is forwarded then implodes]

Posted by: banana Dream - Space IT in training at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (3uBP9)

136 Let freedom ring!

Ian Speir
@IanSpeir
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.

-
Hard to believe now but I used to be proud to be an attorney.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (ndZc7)

137 Remein his prime years that Leftists swore he was the smartest President ever.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (Ia/+0)

138 I didn't even consider the Flat Earthers during yesterday's launch. How could I not think of the Flat Earthers?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:12 PM (glnUu)
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Funny thing, is that's exactly what I thought of.
Posted by: Axeman

I should have put quotes around the Flat Earth bit - that is from Ace.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (glnUu)

139 Ian Speir
@IanSpeir
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.

-
Hard to believe now but I used to be proud to be an attorney.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026
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Will they accept a pinkie swear?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (ESVrU)

140 Maybe to get away from the Canadian government?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 07:18 PM (Ia/+0)

141 Lemon: "I was given the n-word treatment"

Horrors! They called the little [excretory expletive] a Nazi!

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at April 02, 2026 07:18 PM (j7INY)

142
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid

Wild scenes from Pakistan, as Islamist mobs chase the police out of their neighborhood 👇

Sorry for the typo, this is France.

---------------

Old & Busted: No-Mo Zones.
New Hotness: No-Go Zones.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:18 PM (seACy)

143
There's just no way to determine an athlete's sex other than reaching under her skirt and fondling her genitals!"
-- the Genius Alexandria Donkey-Chompers
=====
I'll do it.
99 times out of 100 it'll not be scary.
70% of the time, it might be fun.
Posted by: Stateless

The 1970s USSR female power lifting team has selected Stateless as their qualifying gender inspection agent. You'll get all the SnuSnu you can stand, but sadly, you'll not die from it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 02, 2026 07:18 PM (QVmho)

144 >> nears its lowest altitude: 115 miles above the Earth.

Look up the Oberth Effect/Maneuver. The TLI burn will occur right at that perigee.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:18 PM (w6EFb)

145 Ballfinger
He's the man
The man with the stinky touch

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (viF8m)

146 Are there any males playing on women's teams that have actually been castrated?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher


Unless you castrate them around 12 weeks, in utero, they've still got an advantage. Cut the balls off a 20-year-old, and he's still got the bigger lung capacity, the denser skeleton, all the muscular differences.....

Posted by: the chicken at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (VHUov)

147 136 Let freedom ring!

Ian Speir
@IanSpeir
Colorado is now requiring lawyers in the State, as a condition of logging into its court e-filing system, to promise not to cooperate with federal authorities in enforcing federal immigration law.

-
Hard to believe now but I used to be proud to be an attorney.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 07:17 PM (ndZc7)

So CO mandates breaking Fed law in order to access the court e-filing system almost every lawyer uses...Seems a bit skeevy and unconstitutional...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (ynpvh)

148 "how can they receive communications in space when Candace has problems getting cell phone coverage in the city? She actually said that."

I gotta admit, I could not give a detailed explanation of how radio (or whatever) signals are transmitted across open space. They (those guys that say things) say sound waves don't travel in space, but I guess radio is more like light, with its own particles or something?

There are probably YouTube videos that could give me the details in five minutes or so. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (vbXSk)

149 off, road-crossing sock.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (VHUov)

150 [Jews] power to arrest this rise in antisemitism if they just stop being dirty treacherous Jews all the time.
---

That's it, never buying a Swanson product.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 07:20 PM (YvvFZ)

151 Looks like B.O. had his ears pinned back for that photo.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (UjdFS)

Boob tape, probably.

Because he's such a boob.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 02, 2026 07:20 PM (w6EFb)

152 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Burner phones and ICE on speed dial.

To me it sounds like the CO government wants to succeed from the US.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:20 PM (u82oZ)

153


[astronaut uses CTRL-F to search email, entire universe is forwarded then implodes]

Posted by: banana Dream

Obviously, they don't know the color of a green orange. Let's hope Clippy isn't running things for them.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 02, 2026 07:20 PM (QVmho)

154 If we were communicating with the people of Pluto we would have about a 5 hour delay between communiques.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:20 PM (V4IXI)

155
So CO mandates breaking Fed law in order to access the court e-filing system almost every lawyer uses...Seems a bit skeevy and unconstitutional...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (ynpvh)


I wonder if a CO attorney could get debarred by the state bar for false swearing.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:21 PM (rbvCR)

156 130 SpeakingOf, who better to oversee the demise of Christianity in England.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:16 PM (+nEug)

Sarah Mullally.
She's a total lefty, as expected.

The natives of England are overwhelmingly atheist anyhow.
The CoE has little influence for most people there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

157 Look up the Oberth Effect/Maneuver. The TLI burn will occur right at that perigee.
Posted by: publius

I saw a Perigree Falcon recently and several Pelican(s).

Posted by: "P" Birds Are Best at April 02, 2026 07:22 PM (oY1HT)

158 Schumer is a power-mad retard that sees the writing on the wall that his run of the mill Democrat stupidity will lose him a primary to AOC, so he's going Full Retard to prove that he's a true culture warrior for the left.
Posted by: ballistic

Just like when Brandon branded his tour bus, to reach those young blue haired HR and communists, the NO MALARKEY TOUR.

I'll bet they didn't put 30 miles on that bus.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 02, 2026 07:22 PM (cxFcK)

159 Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (vbXSk)

Radio waves travel at the speed of light. And just like light they can be interfered with.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:22 PM (V4IXI)

160 148 "how can they receive communications in space when Candace has problems getting cell phone coverage in the city? She actually said that."

I gotta admit, I could not give a detailed explanation of how radio (or whatever) signals are transmitted across open space. They (those guys that say things) say sound waves don't travel in space, but I guess radio is more like light, with its own particles or something?

There are probably YouTube videos that could give me the details in five minutes or so. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (vbXSk)

The electric field of an electromagnetic wave (light, radio waves, microwaves, etc) generates an orthogonal magnetic field which in turn generates an orthogonal electric field...thus transiting through the void of space.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

161 illiniwek

Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, in a different place from light.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (u82oZ)

162 BREAKING: In his interview with foreign agent Tucker Carlson, Comic Dave Smith has finally said something funny.

“I think you are one of the leading fighters against antisemitism in the country.”

------------

That's gotta be a Babylon Bee AI Deep Fake parody.

/Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (seACy)

163 no, Pluto is 5 light hours away but then they have to respond back, so that's another 5 hours

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (gKWVE)

164 95 I think this is a hate crime in Britain

https://tinyurl.com/27z2ufj5
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:07 PM (rbvCR)
HoHo. By the way, I've not see Amelie? lately. WTH?

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (LHPAg)

165 163 no, Pluto is 5 light hours away but then they have to respond back, so that's another 5 hours

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (gKWVE)

Uranus is no better...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (ynpvh)

166 I saw a Perigree Falcon recently and several Pelican(s).
Posted by: "P" Birds Are Best


* sneaks in *

Posted by: a ptarmigan at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (VHUov)

167 My wife had problems determining the difference between cell phone connection, wifi and bluetooth.
Eventually I told her that it was like AM, FM and TV.
This didn't explain anything, but did help when she was burning data on her tablet at home when she could use the wifi instead.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:25 PM (rbvCR)

168 I sure hope Ace doesn't put Gaylord's picture at the top of the next post. That might be too cruel, even for VDH.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (Xu7kS)

169 Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?

Posted by: We Are Too A Planet! at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (oY1HT)

170 Colorado does not have the authority to break disclosure / discovery or whatever. Any lawyer blocked from this system can make an emergency call to the Federal court system which will whack all the pee pees.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (gKWVE)

171
You'll also find a good bit of "intersection" between the flat earthers and the jew-hating conspiracy shit when you scroll through their crap.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (w6EFb)

172 So CO mandates breaking Fed law in order to access the court e-filing system almost every lawyer uses...Seems a bit skeevy and unconstitutional...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (ynpvh)


How about immigration attorneys? Do they have to not cooperate and file properly? Refuse to appear at scheduled times.

What about non-client issues with other attorneys? Do they have to violate federal law and lie if asked if the janitor has 'papers'?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (/lPRQ)

173 gKWVE

Issac Asimov wrote a short story about that. The Earth Scientists were stumped by the time delay to Pluto.

The protagonist's Jewish mother said "Just keep talking."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (u82oZ)

174 That's gotta be a Babylon Bee AI Deep Fake parody.
/Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (seACy)


Nope, Dave is an idiot who thinks there is only one simple answer to the world, and he holds it in his hand.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (rbvCR)

175 Hey king Chuckles: Everthing I need to know about islam was learned on Sept. 11. 2001.
Posted by: Cosda at April 02, 2026 07:09 PM (fK3VZ)
------

10/12/2000

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (vE0+H)

176 163 no, Pluto is 5 light hours away but then they have to respond back, so that's another 5 hours

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (gKWVE)
----
This does kind of put the vastness of space into some perspective.

It takes 4 YEARS to get a signal from Alpha Centauri (give or take a month), but only 5 hours to receive a signal from Pluto.

Space is ginormous...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (ESVrU)

177 >> Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?

I don't know, but Uranians are all assholes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (w6EFb)

178 Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?
Posted by: We Are Too A Planet!


Not sure, but a group of them is a plutoon.

Posted by: a ptarmigan at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (VHUov)

179 171 You'll also find a good bit of "intersection" between the flat earthers and the jew-hating conspiracy shit when you scroll through their crap.
Posted by: publius


Oh, you've been on Vox Day's site too.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (gKWVE)

180 Pluto is 5 light hours away but then they have to respond back, so that's another 5 hours
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 07:24 PM (gKWVE)

I thought I said that. I said between communiques which to me meant for each communiques.

One communique takes five hours . The next communique back takes five hours.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (V4IXI)

181 If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (YlWIZ)

182 These bird socks.....

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (VHUov)

183 And we know which "P" bird is the VERY Best!!

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (oY1HT)

184 169 Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?
Posted by: We Are Too A Planet! at April 02, 2026 07:26 PM (oY1HT)
Plutons.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

185
“I think you are one of the leading fighters against antisemitism in the country.”
------------

That's gotta be a Babylon Bee AI Deep Fake parody.

/Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (seACy)

He's an Anti-Semitic Fighter

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (vE0+H)

186 >>>Speaking of stuff that doesn't work in real life. Apparently the astronauts are using Microsoft Outlook to send/receive emails, manage their calendar, and todo lists. Its not working.

https://is.gd/nJlqKc

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions

>I can't get that shit program, Outlook to synchronize with Win11 since I went from fingerprint recognition to facial recognition between my phone and new notebook. No worries, - this is not a matter of National Security, but job security for IT dorks, and the coding geeks build more and more layers of bullshit and it gets more and more less productive.

It took 3 days to get my old printer working because I couldn't get a simple driver, and I had to download a DVD-sized driver suite and tweak it thru 5 reboots and 3 crashes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (UqSya)

187 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (ycI94)

Utah is much closer to monstroustly huge tracts of Fed land that the US forest service needs to monitor that is Washington DC. I say ship a good number of them to Alaska...it has lots of forest...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:01 PM (ynpvh)

I remember when the Ag Department in Connecticut built some boat ramps on a golf course rather than yield the money to a state with actual agriculture.

Break them up, move them out of DC, put the labs where the forests are - nowhere east of the Appalachians.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 07:29 PM (8avO+)

188 If Charles III converts to Mohammedanism, can he still head the Church of England?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 07:30 PM (to48P)

189 If you like your delusion, however, there’s an acronym for that. Talk to your doctor about FAFOnyl.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (YlWIZ)

190
MontanaFreePress.org has an article about the Forest Service.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (3ek7K)

191 Charles doesn't have to convert he just needs to keep cashing the checks.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (+nEug)

192 Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?
Posted by: We Are Too A Planet!

Not sure, but a group of them is a plutoon.
Posted by: a ptarmigan at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (VHUov)
---
Plutonian, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (ESVrU)

193 If Charles III converts to Mohammedanism, can he still head the Church of England?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

He could behead it...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (Xu7kS)

194 France has great wine and cheeses and as a rich American, I enjoy vacationing in other people's poverty and filth.

Posted by: Fat Rich American Tourist at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (HUHft)

195 MontanaFreePress.org has an article about the Forest Service.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (3ek7K)

Forestry Service😀

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (V4IXI)

196 >>> I gotta admit, I could not give a detailed explanation of how radio (or whatever) signals are transmitted across open space. They (those guys that say things) say sound waves don't travel in space, but I guess radio is more like light, with its own particles or something?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:19 PM (vbXSk)


It travels through the luminiferous ether actually.

Posted by: Robert Boyle at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

197
Live NASA stream of the upcoming TLI burn:
https://is.gd/Fa4KLg

Isaacman is there in MC himself for this one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (w6EFb)

198 "The electric field of an electromagnetic wave (light, radio waves, microwaves, etc) generates an orthogonal magnetic field which in turn generates an orthogonal electric field...thus transiting through the void of space." Posted by: jim

"Radio waves are part of the electromagnetic spectrum, in a different place from light." Posted by: NaCly Dog

OK, thx. But light has photons, does an electromagnetic field also carry some (tiny?) particle? I'm sure I had this in Physics 107, but that was 50 years ago. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (vbXSk)

199 Laura Ingraham has a spot about illegal aliens. Then cuts to a commercial by ACLU supporting birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 07:33 PM (Cqx++)

200 King Charles
Vegetarian starters and alcohol-free cocktails

The visit took place during Ramadan and was adapted to accommodate fasting Muslim guests by skipping the usual lunch, serving alcohol-free cocktails, and preparing a pescatarian menu.

Posted by: 13times at April 02, 2026 07:33 PM (RiT5e)

201 192 Are the people of Pluto Plutans, Plutites, or what exactly?
Posted by: We Are Too A Planet!

Not sure, but a group of them is a plutoon.
Posted by: a ptarmigan at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (VHUov)
---
Plutonian, of course.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (ESVrU)

It's a Plutocracy over there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:34 PM (ynpvh)

202 191 Charles doesn't have to convert he just needs to keep cashing the checks.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (+nEug)
Charles could learn a thing or too from that guy Aragorn.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 07:34 PM (LHPAg)

203 OK, thx. But light has photons, does an electromagnetic field also carry some (tiny?) particle? I'm sure I had this in Physics 107, but that was 50 years ago. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (vbXSk)
----
Photons *are* the particles carried by all waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. Or the particles carry the waves.

It gets a bit fuzzy as photons are both particles AND waves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:34 PM (ESVrU)

204 195 MontanaFreePress.org has an article about the Forest Service.

Posted by: fourseasons at April 02, 2026 07:31 PM (3ek7K)

Forestry Service😀
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Nooooooo! I've been mis-bureaued!

Posted by: Forest Service Redditor at April 02, 2026 07:34 PM (ycI94)

205 The natives of England are overwhelmingly atheist anyhow.
The CoE has little influence for most people there.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

They had a huge blow up some years ago 2012 maybe when the political and immoral Bishops led to a split with Anglicans from abroad. Most British Anglicans either went Roman Catholic or joined the foreign synods. I used to follow it on a few religious blogs back when blogs were a thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 07:35 PM (8avO+)

206 jim (in Kalifornia)

Do they have a Visa to arrive in the Solar System?

Illegal aliens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

207 203 OK, thx. But light has photons, does an electromagnetic field also carry some (tiny?) particle? I'm sure I had this in Physics 107, but that was 50 years ago. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (vbXSk)
----
Photons *are* the particles carried by all waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. Or the particles carry the waves.

It gets a bit fuzzy as photons are both particles AND waves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 07:34 PM (ESVrU)

Even matter makes waves, though they have an extremely tiny amplitude, which can be useful. See Atom Interferometer.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:36 PM (ynpvh)

208 >>>>10/12/2000
Posted by: ...
*********
We had many lessons. Unfortunately our betters haven't learned much.

Posted by: Cosda at April 02, 2026 07:36 PM (fK3VZ)

209 I saw Luminiferous Ether open for Chinese Rock on their I Wanna Be Sedated Tour at the Roxy in 83.

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at April 02, 2026 07:37 PM (oY1HT)

210 If Charles III converts to Mohammedanism, can he still head the Church of England?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 07:30 PM (to48P)

Well he can't be Catholic, that's illegal. Not sure if that means he can't be Muslim legally.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 07:37 PM (8avO+)

211 Cafe is up.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 02, 2026 07:37 PM (NcvvS)

212 >>> It travels through the luminiferous ether actually.
Posted by: Robert Boyle at April 02, 2026 07:32 PM (3uBP9)


Wrong! It's just particles.

Posted by: Newton at April 02, 2026 07:38 PM (3uBP9)

213 Moon moon moon
We’re going to the
Moon moon
Moon

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 07:38 PM (A5RD0)

214 Wrong! It's just particles.
Posted by: Newton at April 02, 2026 07:38 PM (3uBP9)

Wrong it's vortices in an elastic ether!

Posted by: Maxwell at April 02, 2026 07:39 PM (3uBP9)

215 206 jim (in Kalifornia)

Do they have a Visa to arrive in the Solar System?

Illegal aliens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 07:35 PM (u82oZ)

Maybe the answer to a higher authority, like those hot dogs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:40 PM (ynpvh)

216 The electric field of an electromagnetic wave (light, radio waves, microwaves, etc) generates an orthogonal magnetic field which in turn generates an orthogonal electric field...thus transiting through the void of space.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 07:23 PM (ynpvh)

------------

I remember learning about the famous electomagnetic "right hand rule" in physics.

Then learning that the Earth's poles flip polarity (reversing the Earth's magnetic field) every 250,000 years or so (based on the last 20 million years of history) -- and wondered when that happens again, will all of our electronics fail (will electromagnetism then follow a left-hand rule)?

[Per Brave "AI":] No, not all electronics will fail, as the Earth's magnetic field is too weak to directly disrupt the operation of most modern solid-state devices. However, the reversal process involves a significant weakening of the magnetic shield, which could leave satellites and power grids vulnerable to solar storms and cosmic radiation, potentially causing widespread blackouts and satellite damage.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:41 PM (seACy)

217 urged British citizens to learn more about Islam

Lots of us leared plenty about Islam after 9/11 and have continued to do so. Who could forget the touching funeral of Farfour the knockoff Mickey Mouse after he was allegedly martyred trying to bum rush an IDF checkpoint?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:41 PM (oyazo)

218 [ALSO:] "The laws of electromagnetism will not follow a left-hand rule if the Earth's magnetic poles flip. The right-hand rule is a convention adopted by the scientific community for consistency, not a physical law dictated by the direction of the Earth's magnetic field."

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 07:41 PM (seACy)

219 >>> Wrong it's vortices in an elastic ether!
Posted by: Maxwell at April 02, 2026 07:39 PM (3uBP9)


Nah bro. It's kinda both a wave and a particle.

Posted by: Planck at April 02, 2026 07:43 PM (3uBP9)

220 Ace is so right about white nationalist Tucker Carlson only being able to interview fellow Nazis at this point. In addition to the Nazi Smith, his last guests have been James Webb’s Nazi son, self-styled Aryan Joe Kent (both of whom claim to be military veterans of some kind) and Avraham Burg, a former interim President of Israel. Vile antisemitic Nazis, all of them!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at April 02, 2026 07:45 PM (CowIf)

221 Seen on Insty: novelty "love chocolate" is being recalled because it contains "life threatening" amounts of Viagra.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 07:49 PM (aUxYo)

222 For people who enjoyed yesterday's launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_UjVpIdxWs

Fuck you flat earth ass hats.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 08:00 PM (D7v4F)

223 Itan war going do badly that US Army Chief of Staff shit canned

Posted by: Paul at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (VAoZ8)

224 ICE hating Teacher is named Abrahamson. That’s a traditional Christian name I believe. Wait a second no it isn’t. It’s a name from a group of people who sure do love to hate whites. And yet here we are fighting a war for them.

Gross.

Posted by: The Js strike again at April 02, 2026 08:11 PM (HmCtv)

225 The Socialists will never forgive the Jews for their murder of them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 08:42 PM (4NO2D)

226 You never question His brilliance. Ever. You ask to see His SAT and LSAT again, you WILL be charged with insolence.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 09:38 PM (hJH5n)

227 Not totally surprised about King Charles...yet I am.

Makes some sense as to why eeslam has had an open door to the UK. Altho Queen Elizabeth was supposedly Christian.

The Princess of Wales, Catherine, often wears a cross.

Here's to hoping Charles steps down. Not that I honestly care except I've never liked looking at him.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 09:49 PM (WONhk)

Bondi's Out.
Is Tulsi Next?!

As you know, Pam Bondi was fired today.

This article repeats the rumor that Trump believed she was leaking to Eric Swallwell:

Trump was also frustrated with Bondi because he believes she may have alerted California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to an effort by the administration to release files from an investigation into his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, one of the sources told Semafor.

Regarding the claim that Bondi was fired because it was suspected she tipped off her friend Eric Swallwell about Patel's interest in releasing the Fang-Fang files:

Reagan Reese
@reaganreese_

27m

A source familiar with Bondi's firing tells me this is "BULLSHIT."

That doesn't mean much but it's only fair that I post the denial.


But word is -- Trump's coming for Tulsi Gabbard next.

According to the Guardian, Trump polled his other Cabinet Sectaries about whether she was worth keeping or not:

Donald Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should replace his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, venting frustration that she shielded a former deputy who undercut his rationale for war with Iran, according to two people briefed on the discussions.

It is not clear that Trump will actually fire Gabbard over the episode. Currently, there is no standout candidate to take the job, and advisers have cautioned that creating a high-profile vacancy before a successor is ready could cause unhelpful political distractions.

But Trump's discussions mark an ominous development for Gabbard, given the president tends to poll his advisers when he starts to seriously consider whether a personnel change is necessary. The two people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Trump's doubts about Gabbard followed her testimony at the worldwide threats hearing on Capitol Hill last month where she declined to condemn Joe Kent, who had resigned days earlier after arguing that Iran did not pose an imminent threat to the United States, the people said.

The nature of Kent's departure and his criticism of the war had already angered Trump, but he expressed particular frustration about Gabbard seemingly defending Kent and appearing reluctant to defend the administration's position to attack Iran, the people said.

Trump seems to have formerly been employing the strategy of keeping his critics and saboteurs inside the tent, so that they were pissing out of it instead of into it. But now he seems to be dropping that strategy and giving them all the boot.

Bonus:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:40 PM




Comments

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1 We'll see.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

2 First?

Posted by: Boswell at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (j10i6)

3 Bye Bye Bondi

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (vE0+H)

4 I thought Tlsi was doing a decentish job. Have not heard much to be honest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (zZu0s)

5 Ahh sooo close

Posted by: Boswell at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (j10i6)

6 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

7 Sorry I just came up with that. My better one earlier was Micturating Pete.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:44 PM (vE0+H)

8 Das Boot for those not faithful ... or some such. But enemies inside the tent seems like a bad strategy.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 05:44 PM (vbXSk)

9 Top Men

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 05:44 PM (cpys8)

10 Bondo > Bondi

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 05:45 PM (+DSUk)

11 bondi stayed too long. I hate to say it because she did show some promise but she should have been shown the door when she pulled the epstein "we are going to release everything" garbage last year.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 05:45 PM (0N4FZ)

12 Is Tulsi Next?!

==

I hope so!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:45 PM (GD0B3)

13 Yeah, their approval with their own party is low, but what does that have to do with getting ballots in the ballot box? That's all that matters.

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 05:46 PM (peFv8)

14 I think Tulsi is fine and Kash needs to go.

Too bad we can't clone Marco and have him do all their jobs!

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:46 PM (gWBY1)

15 "Even Democrats don't like their own leaders when it comes to Congress"
---
Yeah, but that's often because too many children are keeping their genitals or they're not nationalizing enough companies for the "revolution".

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (Fi81e)

16 He has to fire her in a very big and bold way. I don't know what she brought to the table in the first place. I understand MAHA and RFK jr. Tulsi was always , "why??"

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (GD0B3)

17 Bondo > Bondi
Posted by: Stu Podaso
.......

Bon Bons > Bondo > Bondi

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (UjdFS)

18 Christy, prayers for your sweet family. I've had so many loved ones in the same boat and it's always heart wrenching.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (gWBY1)

19 When the commode on the Artemis is malfunctioning, you still need to find a way to jettison a frozen stool.

Fake boobies and diapers can only camouflage the situation for so long.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 05:49 PM (UqSya)

20 Marco is this term's Haley. Very good in his lane and has higher political aspirations so will make all the right noises to keep us happy.

But he has fooled everyone before.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:49 PM (vE0+H)

21 This is a funny video

https://x.com/i/status/2039663392869277789

Seems VDH can dish it out when necessary

(It is VDH talking about when fang fang tried to honeypot him)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:49 PM (MHAh2)

22 Bondi is out and replaced by Blanche who has openly opposed PDT. I guess we have to wait and see how that works out.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:49 PM (+nEug)

23 I read that as "Bond's Out" and thought we finally had that gay 007 we've all been clamouring for.

I wonder why all the firings?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 05:49 PM (Sco7b)

24 >>> Even Democrats don't like their own leaders when it comes to Congress"

Democrats leaders all seem to be classic dems with enough of a progressive bent not to get canceled, and over the age of 80, or young woke commies. I'd hate them too.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:50 PM (gWBY1)

25 Trump needs people aligned with him. He does not need a fifth column inside the ranks. And that DNI office needs to be disbanded, there is no value add to that office. It's a Bush jr anachronism that outlived its purpose. Its functions need to go under Nat Sec Advisor.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:50 PM (GD0B3)

26 i was a huge fan of tulsi's incorporation into the administration. i thought she'd provide a necessary bulwark against more traditional right-wing foreign policy types and keep trump's focus maintained on domestic issues.

but the boss is the boss, and irrespective of her personal anti-war sentiments, it's not appropriate for the DNI to shelter or protect underlings that agitate against the boss' decisions.

tulsi truly was one of my favourite cabinet picks, alongside rubio and RFK. but the joe kent episode really calls into question her ability to sequester her personal anti-war inclinations from her duties implementing the president's vision.

even if that vision is misguided, it's her job.

Posted by: pH at April 02, 2026 05:50 PM (8e0X0)

27 The Guardian? Really? Does anyone really think The Guardian would have inside baseball information on cabinet meetings. And, does anyone really think Trump (of all people) would poll his cabinet members in making a decision.

This is noise. It is a half-assed attempt to create discord within the administration by compromising Gabbard AND every other cabinet member in the room

Amateur hour from the way way way Lefist media.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:50 PM (dIske)

28 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

Christy I am so so sorry. I will pray for everyone.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (vE0+H)

29 I lime the thought of Zeldin taking over. He seems to mean business.

Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (hajF2)

30 It could be Grenell again I guess.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (3uBP9)

31 I like Tulsi and hope she stays.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (WONhk)

32 This article repeats the rumor that Trump believed she was leaking to Eric Swallwell

Also a rumor that she was the one protecting Epstein etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (El6/E)

33 13 Yeah, their approval with their own party is low, but what does that have to do with getting ballots in the ballot box? That's all that matters.
Posted by: InZona
=======
Means that this probably will not be a redux of 2006, 2010, or 2018 midterms. More likely 1998 or 2014. Slight gain to a slight loss in the house and little change in the Senate.

One should always look at second term midterms as apart from first term midterms as well. The scary shit of what a president might do is absent then as a second term president, for better or worse, is a known quantity. 2006 was bad because Bush got deserted by his own side due to religion of peace, aborted amnesty plan, and the spiraling violence in Iraq which undercut his 2002-2004 victories.

And guess what, Iran was behind much of that spiraling violence in Iraq from 2005-2007.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (E4rtv)

34 Well, I guess if you're going to ckean house, you may as well do it all at once.

In Canada, they'll shake up entire cabinets just to shake things up. Still get the same crap though.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (Sco7b)

35 DeSantis needs a job, come the fall. Wait until then.

Also, Elise Stefanik is a good candidate for something big and she's gone a whole year without making a single complaint about being pushed aside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (f274s)

36 Sorry I just came up with that. My better one earlier was Micturating Pete.

Better than Masturbatin' Pete, I suppose.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (ufSfZ)

37 28 Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

Christy I am so so sorry. I will pray for everyone.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (vE0+H)

Me too Christy. I can't imagine...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (Sco7b)

38 29 I lime the thought of Zeldin taking over. He seems to mean business.
Posted by: 496

Zeldin was well liked in Congress and ran a very creditable campaign for NY State governor. Should be a relatively easy confirmation but with the caveat of asshole off the reservation Tillis in the Judiciary Cmte.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (E4rtv)

39 >>Tulsi was always , "why??"

i believe she was specifically chosen because she had any number of bones to pick with the deep-state intelligence establishment and no shortage of the necessary public courage to pick those bones.

her office has done some great work discovering some of the more nefarious intelligence plots against the greater trump political organisation.

but if she is protecting saboteurs who share her (understandably) deeply ingrained anti-war misgivings, she is not fit for the purpose.

Posted by: pH at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (8e0X0)

40 Best Trump cabinet picks, All moving his MAGA/MAHA needle in visible and concrete ways:

Homan
Rubio
RFK Jr.

Who am I missing?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (gWBY1)

41 If she did tip off Swallowswell she deserves to go.
But do we really know?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (Ia/+0)

42 The latest story is that Donald Trump is expected to name Saul Goodman as new Attorney General

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (El6/E)

43 Unless you are both extremely useful and fiercely loyal, working for Trump is the same as Bum Phillips once described being a head football coach, "The only thing that's certain is you'll be fired." (as best I can remember what Bum said)

Posted by: Gref at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (5rh/l)

44 Too bad Tulsi isn't based and is probably actually a deep cover mole. She could have easily been the most dangerous woman in America and as close to a decent female leader as we could ever find on the R side. I don't think there's anyone else. Sanders I guess is close?

Tulsi kind of has it all but I'm pretty sure she's compromised and/or just a big leftard dummy.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (vE0+H)

45 Tell Me Something Bad About Tulsi

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (vE0+H)

46 Donald Trump is expected to name Saul Goodman as new Attorney General

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (El6/E)
-------
Bob Loblaw

Posted by: 496 at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (HGzsz)

47 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (ufSfZ)

Hey someone earlier said your work was being tweeted by someone today

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (vE0+H)

48 - one of the sources told Semafor.

- A source familiar with Bondi's firing

- according to two people briefed on the discussions.


That's a lot of "sources" saying a lot of sh*t. Not as bad as Trump v1.0 but still not good. And leaking about leaking is weirdly meta.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (vTZFs)

49 If she did tip off Swallowswell she deserves to go.
But do we really know?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM


Somebody tipped him off and it wasn't some GS-12 desk clerk.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)

50 Speaking of micturating, well actually completely different, but I remember the first time I heard of a masticating toilet for basements and thought, is that really what it sounds like? Yep. Sure is. I wonder if space toilets masticate.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (3uBP9)

51 Shit can the cabinet leakers too.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (wBaIH)

52 There are a lot of people in Washington who hate Tulsi Gabbard, especially on the Senate Intelligence Committee. These folks are Vindman types and they are precisely the sort of people who would be feeding the Grauniad. No one is perfect, but Tulsi Gabbard has been doing some great work and my guess is Trump knows that by considering who her enemies are.

Posted by: Mr. D at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (W/lJL)

53 Actually there is a PERFECT candidate for DNI...

General Flynn... who just settled with the DOJ about wrongful prosecution.

Don't know if he has forgiven Trump for throwing him under the bus when VP Pence LIED to the President about him.... but he still knows where the bodies are buried...

and yes.... he has an Axe that needs some grindage.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

54 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (ufSfZ)

Hey someone earlier said your work was being tweeted by someone today


Sarah Hoyt has plugged MP4's stuff on Insty twice in the last week or so. I hope it does something good.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 02, 2026 05:58 PM (vTZFs)

55 It's like Survivor,
Who will be voted off the island next?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 05:58 PM (/lPRQ)

56 I do like Tulsi for all I know, She does have reasons to get back at the Deep State

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 05:59 PM (Ia/+0)

57 Remember that guy working for O'Keefe who broke the Planned Parenthood baby part sales story? Who was immediately arrested by California and charged with crimes?

Its been NEARLY TEN FUCKING YEARS and the final charge against him was dismissed:

https://tinyurl.com/486j3nkj

The entire bogus case has been completely expunged. No jail time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing and no probation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:59 PM (El6/E)

58
Just heard the call from Mission Control. Waste water dump is complete, and the space toilet is go for operations.

Let 'er fly boys, have a ball.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:59 PM (w6EFb)

59 55 It's like Survivor,
Who will be voted off the island next?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 05:58 PM (/lPRQ)

Dare I say... it's more like... oh... The Apprentice?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 06:00 PM (mP0Kj)

60 There’s a LOT of younger women here in Seattle who really like Tulsi.

It would be a shame to see her let go.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 06:00 PM (A5RD0)

61 Sarah Hoyt has plugged MP4's stuff on Insty twice in the last week or so. I hope it does something good.

His books are genuinely good, and a fresh take on investigation and mystery. I recommend strongly. The HQ has a higher than reasonable density of great writers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:00 PM (El6/E)

62 I wonder if space toilets masticate.
Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (3uBP9)
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The ones on the Shuttle definitely did in fact masticate.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 06:01 PM (oqH4h)

63 >>> and yes.... he has an Axe that needs some grindage.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

Flynn has been tied to some of the foreign interference networks similar to tucker. Just people talking probably. But it has been discussed before.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:01 PM (3uBP9)

64 Hey someone earlier said your work was being tweeted by someone today
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (vE0+H)


Yes, Sarah Hoyt just made a post this morning on Insty about my second book, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of. Most unexpected and very generous of her.

Buy my books! (if you haven't already)

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 06:02 PM (ufSfZ)

65
The Joe Kent debacle is what is going to take Tulsi Gabard out.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 06:02 PM (IifOV)

66 There is nobility in being fired for your principles.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (GPa4z)

67 55 It's like Survivor,
Who will be voted off the island next?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 05:58 PM

Rubio has the immunity idol.
Pete Hegseth might kill him for it though.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (IifOV)

68 In Trump's social media post announcing Bondi was out he was complimentary and said "we love her". One thing Trump is not is a shrinking violet. If she were leaking about Swalwell, which seems ludicrous on its face, I doubt Trump would have been so kind. I'm going to need a bit for evidence than one Daily Mail reporter's unsourced claim.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (viF8m)

69 bondi stayed too long. I hate to say it because she did show some promise but she should have been shown the door when she pulled the epstein "we are going to release everything" garbage last year.
Posted by: Mister Scott

She should have never been in to begin with. Martin-Zimmerman fiasco was a huge BJ for Obama.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (/lPRQ)

70 A division president once told me... "Every president has pistol full bullets with an appointees name on each.

You can be damned sure I'll be pulling the trigger on each before the gun is turned on me"

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 06:04 PM (wBaIH)

71 It is not clear that Trump will actually fire Gabbard over the episode. Currently, there is no standout candidate to take the job,

Not really.

Rubio can add it to his portfolio, no problem.
The man is a machine.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 02, 2026 06:04 PM (6ydKt)

72 Just heard the call from Mission Control. Waste water dump is complete, and the space toilet is go for operations.

Let 'er fly boys, have a ball.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
......

Let 'er rip.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:04 PM (UjdFS)

73 I missed the chance to put this on the Artemis post, but it's too good not to share:

Michael Collins suggested to Armstrong what he should say upon stepping onto the lunar surface: “If you had any balls, you’d say ‘Oh, my God, what is that thing??’ then scream and cut your mic.”

(Online, they say this joke isn't on the mission tapes, but that doesn't mean Collins, a funny guy, didn't say it on Earth before the mission...)

Posted by: Beverly at April 02, 2026 06:04 PM (reMys)

74 MPPP is too modest, here's where you find his books. I am still waiting for book 3 in the Theda Bara series

https://tinyurl.com/3hxx69kn

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:05 PM (El6/E)

75 Yeah, but is the space bidet working?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:06 PM (UjdFS)

76 57, now where does he go to get his life and savings back...?

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 06:06 PM (aJQbY)

77 This would've been better yesterday but . . .

https://is.gd/psF5Tz

Bonus! Short, bald man in a purple jacket.

https://is.gd/Z6ucUB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:06 PM (ndZc7)

78 Fox is now reporting Gabbard's job is "safe" and any reports that Trump is thinking about removing her is "fake news".

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

79 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 06:02 PM (ufSfZ)

Happy for you bro

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:07 PM (vE0+H)

80 Happy for you bro

Absolutely, I hope you get an instalanche of sales!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:07 PM (El6/E)

81 35 DeSantis needs a job, come the fall. Wait until then.

Also, Elise Stefanik is a good candidate for something big and she's gone a whole year without making a single complaint about being pushed aside.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:52 PM (f274s)

I wonder if she is better off running for Senate. (Stop laughing.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 06:07 PM (hJH5n)

82 In space, no one can hear you go to the bathroom

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 06:08 PM (Ia/+0)

83 Dare I say... it's more like... oh... The Apprentice?
Posted by: Romeo13

Did contestants connive with each other deciding who to boot off The Apprentice?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:08 PM (/lPRQ)

84 As you know, Pam Bondi was fired today.

This is unpossible. Because I was informed right here in the comments that criticism of Bondi was ridiculous and that only uninformed nattering nabobs of negativity could think otherwise.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 06:09 PM (4/BuS)

85 I wonder if space toilets masticate.
Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (3uBP9)
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The ones on the Shuttle definitely did in fact masticate.
Posted by: ballistic
===

Being repurposed as "Space Cookies" it is best not to recognize the corn.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:09 PM (/lPRQ)

86 A Neocon.

Is that like what Matrix 2 and 3 were?

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:09 PM (vE0+H)

87
Artemis crew is now testing the exercise wheel. This is causing small oscillations of the spacecraft, which they were expecting, and curious about how much it would be.

You can see the service module sort of oscillating from the solar wing camera feed. The motion is causing the wings to sort of flex themselves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 06:10 PM (w6EFb)

88 All political apparatchiks are sus.

All of them.

Always.

My AAA theorem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 06:10 PM (AkEZC)

89 Is that like what Matrix 2 and 3 were?

And 4 :/

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:10 PM (El6/E)

90 I'm looking forward to spending more time with my private sector.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 02, 2026 06:10 PM (2Ez/1)

91 Commenter on Open Bar just now:

Artemis II won't return for 9 days. That's plenty of time for all of us to buy ape suits for the best prank ever.

Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2026 06:11 PM (vSvIl)

92 Fox is now reporting Gabbard's job is "safe" and any reports that Trump is thinking about removing her is "fake news".
Posted by: JackStraw


Welp. She's a goner.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:12 PM (/lPRQ)

93
"If the service module is oscillating, don't come knocking."

Posted by: NASA Bumper Sticker at April 02, 2026 06:12 PM (2Ez/1)

94 Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (viF8m)

He isn't gonna want reports of domestic CHAOS to surface at a moment of supposed international strife, so everything and everyone is wonderful but, by the way, pack your fucking bags.

I think the Swalwell stuff was released by the admin as stray voltage. Probably true but not the main reason she was fired. Just one of many. Turns the story onto a Democrat Punching Bag and is something else to talk about.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (vE0+H)

95 Anyone into 3d printing? I have an older cheaper one that I screw around with making stuff for the kids and whatnot.

Thinking about a major upgrade to a Bambu H2C and was wondering if any of the Horde had thoughts.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (oqH4h)

96 Fox is now reporting Gabbard's job is "safe" and any reports that Trump is thinking about removing her is "fake news".

Not that I trust Fox News, but I’d have to say of all of Trump’s picks that both the administrative state and the institutional left in general want out most, it would be Tulsi Gabbard. Having a once high profile Democrat and woman in a current high profile position hurts their attempt to say Trump is extreme.

It highlights who the extremists really are. This isn’t to say she shouldn’t be fired if she’s screwing up, but it would be a welcome scalp to the left.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (EXyHK)

97 I thought Bondi was...OK, not the locus of the world's evil the way some thought here. My thinking is...now that some here got their wish and she is gone...now what? Who takes her place?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (hJH5n)

98 The next book is coming, Christopher. I hope to have it out this summer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 06:14 PM (ufSfZ)

99 show me the edge

Posted by: Desinex at April 02, 2026 06:14 PM (jrgJz)

100 Hobby thread is during the weekend.

Posted by: 3D printer out front should have told you at April 02, 2026 06:14 PM (2Ez/1)

101 Artemis crew is now testing the exercise wheel. This is causing small oscillations of the spacecraft, which they were expecting, and curious about how much it would be.

You can see the service module sort of oscillating from the solar wing camera feed. The motion is causing the wings to sort of flex themselves.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

The "Exercise Wheel".
Think I'll get wifey and I a round or two on the "Exercise Wheel" tonight.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:15 PM (/lPRQ)

102 OMG! There's more of them!

https://is.gd/9wJQux

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:15 PM (ndZc7)

103 72 Just heard the call from Mission Control. Waste water dump is complete, and the space toilet is go for operations.

Let 'er fly boys, have a ball.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
......

Let 'er rip.
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 06:04 PM (UjdFS)
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Chili night is back on!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 02, 2026 06:16 PM (0bjKf)

104 Thank goodness - I never forgave her for jumping on the Trayvon Martin bandwagon way back in the day, due to pressure. We need people with backbone and convictions. Like Trump.

She could have nipped all of that in the bud, but she didn't. And really, that was what started ALL of the stuff that has led up to where we are now in political discourse.

If she had held firm, we might not have had BLM or riots in Ferguson or all of the other crap that arose from "Obama's son" ***spit***.

Just my humble opinion.

Oh, and Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 02, 2026 06:16 PM (SRRAx)

105 Kent is one of those people who are a mystery to me. Well accomplished and a patriot but seemingly a retard.

Anyone who opines that Iran was not a threat can't be anything but a retard. They have been a threat for over 40 years. Only issue I ever have had with Reagan. He should have turned them into glass.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:16 PM (V4IXI)

106 So King Charles announced earlier today that britain will only be celebrating their victorious muslim invader's holidays from now on.


That was certainly a short war. Has anyone ever read The Flying Inn?

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:17 PM (3uBP9)

107 I had a 6.5 Martin-Zimmerman from Sarco.

Posted by: jugear fukstik at April 02, 2026 06:17 PM (Kt19C)

108 The ones on the Shuttle definitely did in fact masticate.
Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 06:01 PM (oqH4h)

SADISTIC ACTS A LOVE SO TRUE
ABSORBINGLY MASTICATING A PART OF YOU

DEATH LOVES FINAL EMBRACE
YOUR COOL TENDERNESS
MEMORIES KEEP LOVE ALIVE
MEMORIES WILL NEVER DIE

Posted by: Slayer at April 02, 2026 06:17 PM (hJH5n)

109 Just heard the call from Mission Control. Waste water dump is complete, and the space toilet is go for operations.

Let 'er fly boys, have a ball.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6E

Sounds like an episode from The Big Bang Theory.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:17 PM (V4IXI)

110 >>I think the Swalwell stuff was released by the admin as stray voltage. Probably true but not the main reason she was fired. Just one of many. Turns the story onto a Democrat Punching Bag and is something else to talk about.

Let's see where she lands. A lot of people were convinced Noem was on his shit list and then he gave her a new job.

Trump is not shy about moving someone he likes to a new position if he thinks the fit isn't right for the moment. If he really was furious with her she wouldn't be doing a 30 day transition.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)

111 Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 06:13 PM (hJH5n)

I would imagine someone crappy again. They have to be approved by Congress and Congress has proven they will not under any circumstance let Trump have a decent AG.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:18 PM (vE0+H)

112 I don't even know who is on the crew?
No Girl Boss?

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 06:18 PM (Ia/+0)

113 The next book is coming, Christopher. I hope to have it out this summer.

Make sure you let us all know! Perfessor can put it on the book thread

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (El6/E)

114 Sounds like an episode from The Big Bang Theory.

It is an episode from Big Bang Theory. My first thought when I heard about it yesterday was that it had to be an April Fool joke.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (EXyHK)

115 She should have never been in to begin with. Martin-Zimmerman fiasco was a huge BJ for Obama.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (/lPRQ)


That, plus her stance on the 2nd Amendment. I was insufficiently suspicious of her.

But I liked Romney and McCain at first too, so my taste in politicians is suspect.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (n9ltV)

116 Apparently there is strong bipartisan dislike of congress.

Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (q177U)

117 Anyone who opines that Iran was not a threat can't be anything but a retard. They have been a threat for over 40 years. Only issue I ever have had with Reagan. He should have turned them into glass.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:16 PM (V4IXI)

Perhaps, but Praying Mantis was infinitely more than what Peanut Jimmuh did.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (hJH5n)

118 It's no Saturday Night Massacre, yet.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (Dv3i1)

119 So King Charles announced earlier today that britain will only be celebrating their victorious muslim invader's holidays from now on.
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"I, for one welcome our new Ayatollahs!"

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (Fi81e)

120 >>>The "Exercise Wheel".
Think I'll get wifey and I a round or two on the "Exercise Wheel" tonight.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Launch a ginormous flywheel, use solar panels to power it and create artificial gravity. Perpetual motion from the Sun. Test it at the fucking ISS.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (UqSya)

121 From the outside looking in I didn't have a problem with either Noem or Bondi.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (V4IXI)

122 Let's see where she lands. A lot of people were convinced Noem was on his shit list and then he gave her a new job.

Trump is not shy about moving someone he likes to a new position if he thinks the fit isn't right for the moment. If he really was furious with her she wouldn't be doing a 30 day transition.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:18 PM (viF8m)

You may be right. For the record I'm not a big Noem fan but I wasn't one of the ones convinced she was on the shit list.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (vE0+H)

123 Are walls coming off or are the wheels closing in?

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (nLVHX)

124 Apparently there is strong bipartisan dislike of congress.
Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (q177U)
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Because a lot of voters really, really hate the other side.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (Fi81e)

125 Considering Tulsi's enemies, I would keep her.

Posted by: davidt at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (Q+gd/)

126 Make sure you let us all know! Perfessor can put it on the book thread
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (El6/E)
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Absolutely!

But MP4 is now an official Sunday Morning Book Thread COB himself, so I hope he takes the opportunity to pimp his own book...(I can loan you a purple pimp hat...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (ESVrU)

127 Sounds like an episode from The Big Bang Theory.

It is an episode from Big Bang Theory. My first thought when I heard about it yesterday was that it had to be an April Fool joke.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (EXyHK)

Ha! That did not occur to me. That's funny, right there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (0aYVJ)

128
So King Charles announced earlier today that britain will only be celebrating their victorious muslim invader's holidays from now on.


He did?

If so, then his reign is so over.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (xG4kz)

129 We need a council to decide who the President can fire!!

Posted by: Council Bob at April 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Fi81e)

130 Tulsi was running FOR PRESIDENT AS A DEMOCRAT not so long ago. Her alliance with Trump helped him win In 2024. Seriously.

RFK Jr also helped.

Democrats aligning with Trump, endorsing him and serving in his cabinet means a LOT. especially ones that wanted to run for POTUS as a Democrat.

Fuck. Do you not get how big that was?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Bzc25)

131 Kent is one of those people who are a mystery to me. Well accomplished and a patriot but seemingly a retard

What I don't get is why he had such a heel turn. He was reasonable and steady and patriotic then he went nuts in like 5 months. He's saying he absolute reverse of what he said before and how he's talking about testifying in defense of the dude who murdered Charlie Kirk. Something, someone has flipped several people in a major way and I really want to know who and how.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:21 PM (El6/E)

132 Bondi I never wanted and the Epstein thing certainly sealed it.

Then it turned out the Epstein thing was part of a much bigger operation that Trump batted away and it really looked bad for Bondi.

Trump is a bleacher rocking 0-3 on AG but it's not entirely his fault. No one saw Sessions' fold coming. Noem seemed fine for what she was doing.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (vE0+H)

133 The walls are coming off the wheels!!

We need new wall wheels.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (Fi81e)

134
The walls are becoming wheels and the closing in is coming.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (xG4kz)

135 CNN forced to report that Democratic approval among their own party is at an historic LOW

"Even Democrats don't like their own leaders when it comes to Congress"


Don't count us out yet! We can still lose this!!!

Posted by: GOPe at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (ycI94)

136 The Joe Kent debacle is what is going to take Tulsi Gabard out.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 06:02 PM (IifOV)

66 There is nobility in being fired for your principles.
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 06:03 PM (GPa4z)
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That's not principles - that's being stupid. Whatever happened to Kent, I don't know. Probably his wife. When you make assurances to your boss about someone, who then publicly knifes your boss in the back, with a boss who isn't forgiving at all - and I've worked for those types before - you're toast. It's not principles, it's dumb.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (UVyKP)

137 But I liked Romney and McCain at first too, so my taste in politicians is suspect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (n9ltV)

Never liked McCain ( he really was dumb) but I was an advocate for Romney. I didn't see his 180 coming.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM (V4IXI)

138 "According to the Guardian"

no one available at mad magazine?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 02, 2026 06:23 PM (CWTWj)

139 ....
She could have nipped all of that in the bud, but she didn't. And really, that was what started ALL of the stuff that has led up to where we are now in political discourse.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn.

Spot on. Bondi showed weak mind and/or weak will. Yes she had many obstacles to success as Trump's AG, but her limitations made it harder.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (Dv3i1)

140 Trump is not shy about moving someone he likes to a new position if he thinks the fit isn't right for the moment. If he really was furious with her she wouldn't be doing a 30 day transition.
Posted by: JackStraw

His Truth post sounds almost like Trump is/has created a private sector position specifically for Bondi.

>We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,

Posted by: old chick at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (F3Dlr)

141 I though Tulsi was doing a pretty good job. She's the one that has been rooting out all the Russia Hoax stuff. But maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (th/4a)

142 But I liked Romney and McCain at first too, so my taste in politicians is suspect.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2026 06:19 PM (n9ltV)

You made up for it with The Meatball.

👀

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (vE0+H)

143 Fuck. Do you not get how big that was?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Bzc25)


The Paolo, he hears this often.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (Q+gd/)

144 >>> If so, then his reign is so over.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:20 PM (xG4kz)


Brits are calling for him to abdicate after the announcement but I have big doubts. Maybe he'll change his tune before Easter.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (3uBP9)

145 Apparently King Charles and Queen Camilla attended the Royal Maundy Service, held in Wales for the first time since 1982. Possibly to honor his old title and that William holds it now. And they will attend the Easter Matins Service at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on April 5.

No idea why he can't release one written statement or video about Easter, when he can do these public events, despite his cancer treatments. He had a rep for hating how tone deaf Queen Lizzy could be with the public, and then he pulls the same stunts as king. But his mummy would have NEVER shirked her religious duties to the crown.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 06:24 PM (Eng1Z)

146 Romney actually won.

McCain was garbage. I voted for Sara Palin, not McCain.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 06:25 PM (Bzc25)

147 Never liked McCain ( he really was dumb) but I was an advocate for Romney. I didn't see his 180 coming.
_____

"Severely conservative" was a tip-off on Romney. Only an enemy of conservatism would think to phrase it that way.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 06:25 PM (Dv3i1)

148 To be fair - look at the leaders of the democrats. Horrifyingly bad.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 06:25 PM (D7v4F)

149 Never liked McCain ( he really was dumb) but I was an advocate for Romney. I didn't see his 180 coming.

Mittens was governor here in MA. I never liked the slimy bastard.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 06:25 PM (ufSfZ)

150 I kinda doubt King Chick said Britain would only celebrate muzzy holidays.

Does he even have the power to decide what holidays are celebrated.? Seems that would be a parliament thing.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 06:26 PM (nLVHX)

151 I liked Romney at one point as the best of a crap bunch but I was pretty sure he was a spineless milquetoast sop. He turned out to be the lowest of the lowest scum of faggotry so I was wrong.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:26 PM (vE0+H)

152 The Caliphate of Britain has arrived. Good thing they have no military anymore.

Posted by: Archer at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (wvc0i)

153 Romney actually won.

Almost certainly yes, but as it works out probably for the best he didn't get elected.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (El6/E)

154 >>His Truth post sounds almost like Trump is/has created a private sector position specifically for Bondi.

>We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future,

That's what I mean. How the hell would he know what her next job was going to be unless he's helping put her there? And if he thought she was leaking to Eric frigging Swalwell of all people Trump would've tosser her on her ass in 5 seconds.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (viF8m)

155 Severely conservative" was a tip-off on Romney. Only an enemy of conservatism would think to phrase it that way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 06:25 PM (Dv3i1)

I liked his economic plan and his proposed policies on illegal immigration. He then did a 180 on climate change which was my clue to bail.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (V4IXI)

156 Apparently the Army Chief of Staff is out, too.

Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (vSvIl)

157 Hey. I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Masticatin' Pete at April 02, 2026 06:28 PM (2Ez/1)

158 McCain was pretty obvious pondscum from jump, and his screwing over of Palin was unforgivable.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:28 PM (vE0+H)

159 King Charles has changed which faith he is the defender of? I see. Sad.

Posted by: Archer at April 02, 2026 06:28 PM (wvc0i)

160 158 McCain was pretty obvious pondscum from jump

Leave John McCain ALONE!!

Posted by: Charles Keating at April 02, 2026 06:29 PM (gKWVE)

161 Royal Maundy Service"

Tuesday afternoon?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:29 PM (XuXeR)

162 CNN forced to report that Democratic approval among their own party is at an historic LOW

"Even Democrats don't like their own leaders when it comes to Congress"



It’s because they think the leadership is too right wing and not “standing up to Trump”. Short of Shumer and Hakeem taking up arms and storming the White House, nothing will satisfy the lunatic left.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 06:29 PM (nLVHX)

163 151 I liked Romney at one point as the best of a crap bunch but I was pretty sure he was a spineless milquetoast sop. He turned out to be the lowest of the lowest scum of faggotry so I was wrong.
____

My "severely" liberal MIL thought that Romney's discussion on the 47% who don't contribute in taxes was what did him in. I thought it was the masochism of the electorate. In fairness, we were both wrong, it was election fraud (probably).

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 06:29 PM (Dv3i1)

164 Does he even have the power to decide what holidays are celebrated.? Seems that would be a parliament thing.

Probably, the king doesn't really have any power any longer. I mean, supposedly they do, but they never use it and I suspect if they tried, they would be ignored.

But he definitely made a special speech for Ramadan and not or Easter.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:29 PM (El6/E)

165 Apparently the Army Chief of Staff is out, too.
Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (vSvIl)

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Is he pulling a Michael Corleone and finishing all family business today?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (2UnvF)

166 Trump is a bleacher rocking 0-3 on AG but it's not entirely his fault. No one saw Sessions' fold coming. Noem seemed fine for what she was doing.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:22 PM


I still claim that someone, most likely the fib, had something very damaging on sessions and he recused himself but refused to step down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (0N4FZ)

167 King Charles has changed which faith he is the defender of? I see.

He said before his mom hopped the twig that when he was king he was going to change the title from Defender of the faith to Defender of Faith.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (El6/E)

168 It's a good. Now there's another room available in military housing.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (NFX2v)

169 [Can't vouch for this, but:]

MAGA Voice
@MAGAVoice

BREAKING 🚨 Trump’s White House CONFIRMS that President Trump has full confidence in Tulsi Gabbard

SHE’S HERE TO STAY 🔥

https://is.gd/0jRysl

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (PZZ/j)

170 I didn't like the leftists who opposed the Bushes
I didn't like the leftists who opposed McCain
I didn't like the leftists who opposed Rombley

It was hard to partition that emotional response of mine to vote against the left from whether I really supported each candidate. I surely did vote for all of them though.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

171
Is not the King the head of the Church of England?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:31 PM (xG4kz)

172 "Severely conservative" was a tip-off on Romney. Only an enemy of conservatism would think to phrase it that way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel


Like being fiercely heterosexual. Gotta love to POUND that... that "mish".
Excuse me, I need to brb from the nausea I mean, horniness.

Posted by: Corey! at April 02, 2026 06:31 PM (gKWVE)

173 All the recent talk about LOTR...
Were there any black characters?
No Tolkien negro?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 06:31 PM (Kt19C)

174 BREAKING 🚨 Trump’s White House CONFIRMS that President Trump has full confidence in banana Dream

HE’S HERE TO STAY 🔥

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:31 PM (3uBP9)

175 165 Apparently the Army Chief of Staff is out, too.
Posted by: Methos at April 02, 2026 06:27 PM (vSvIl)

Biden era Army Chief of Staff

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (FtULh)

176 I think this is what that post about Chuck was about:
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GB Politics
@GBPolitcs
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6h
🚨BREAKING: Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year
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Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)

177 Are walls coming off or are the wheels closing in?
Posted by: Heroq

Apparently, the latest anti-Trump propaganda is he's all Alzheimered out! Did you hear him slurring his words last night?!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (ndZc7)

178 Is not the King the head of the Church of England?

Yeah he's basically the Anglican pope but since the Anglican church has had its candle taken away, melted down, burned and its ashes scattered, it doesn't really signify.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (El6/E)

179 Reading between the lines of Kent's resignation letter, it appeared to me his anti-war sentiment was born out of the death of his wife.

Posted by: Halfhand at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (IX5dx)

180 Obama with a gop congress was fine. Nothing much got done his 2nd term. Had Romney won he probably would have pushed a grand bargain amnesty bullshit bill. Probably would have had Ryan lead the effort as VP.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (nLVHX)

181
He said before his mom hopped the twig that when he was king he was going to change the title from Defender of the faith to Defender of Faith.


And thus he lays claim to his rightful title, King Numpty.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (xG4kz)

182 https://tinyurl.com/486j3nkj

The entire bogus case has been completely expunged. No jail time, no fines, no admission of wrongdoing and no probation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:59 PM (El6/E)
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Kamala is a jack-booted fascist thug, this case is proof.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (RIvkX)

183 I mean with a name like *checks notes* MAGA Voice, it has to be trustworthy, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

184 >>> Democrats aligning with Trump, endorsing him and serving in his cabinet means a LOT. especially ones that wanted to run for POTUS as a Democrat. Fuck. Do you not get how big that was? Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 06:21 PM (Bzc25)

It's hard to know what things moved 100% moved the needle and got more dems or independents to vote for him in 2024. But knowing he, like Lincoln, would have a cabinet stocked with democrats fed up with the corruption and coming together helped.

The left and the media don't get to yell about him firing women and potentially people of color, when they never praised him for hiring them in the first place. They passed on the moral high ground long ago.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (Eng1Z)

185 Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (PZZ/j)

Then again the Manager or Owner's Vote of Confidence is practically a meme at this point.

Trump is gonna want it to feel like smooth sailing right now so let's see how everything shakes out. He is managing a ton of narrative AND trying to take care of family business all at once. I don't know how he does it.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (vE0+H)

186 Who am I missing?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:53 PM (gWBY1)

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Pete Hegseth, War
Scott Bessent, Treasury
Lee Zeldin, EPA
Chris Wright, DOE (Energy)
Doug Burgum, Interior

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:34 PM (seACy)

187 >>> 🚨BREAKING: Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year
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Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)


While the same people a month ago put out a shit ton of messages praising their invading army's ramadan.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:34 PM (3uBP9)

188 The rocker is on the porch.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 06:34 PM (0sNs1)

189 King Charles has changed which faith he is the defender of?

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Pulling a Henry VIII?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)

190 Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM (3uBP9)

Too bad Trump 2.0 can't run again. I haven't voted for someone since Reagan . I've just been voting against the other Commie Dem candidate. That includes all three times Trump 1.0 ran.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (V4IXI)

191 Good thing they have no military anymore."

Yeah. Used to call battle rifle a "civil servant" ...didn't work and couldn't be fired.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (XuXeR)

192 🚨BREAKING: Buckingham Palace has confirmed King Charles will not issue an Easter message this year
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Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (Fi81e)

Not quite “Brian can no longer celebrate non Muslim holidays”

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (nLVHX)

193
*ahem*

Tolkiens Of Color.

Posted by: Let's get it right at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (2Ez/1)

194 Pretty sure the Archbishop of Canterbury gives the Easter message. Not that Chsrles shouldn't say something, but his mama gave a Christmas speech, not an Easter one.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (Vvh2V)

195
Commander Wiseman just gave an exercise wheel workout report. Said he got a good workout, but there was a little issue. Static electricity tended to build up on him while using it, and he had to be careful about that.

Orion's atmosphere is 70/30 N2/O2 at around 1 atm pressure (can go as low as 10 psi, depending on what they need), so not pure O2 or anything. Still, that static build up is something they'll need to fix.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 06:36 PM (w6EFb)

196 HE’S HERE TO STAY 🔥


Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:31 PM (3uBP9)

Thank God for THAT!!!

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:36 PM (vE0+H)

197 and what sources does "MAGA VOICE" have ? other X accounts? just asking questions

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:36 PM (GD0B3)

198 I thought you were kidding. I'll be d.....

King Charles III has indicated a shift from the traditional title of "Defender of the Faith" (referring specifically to Anglican Christianity) to "Defender of Faith" or "Defender of Faiths," aiming to represent all religious communities in a pluralistic Britain. While keeping the traditional title formally, he favors an inclusive approach, promising to protect all religions, including Islam and Hinduism, and honoring multicultural Britain. (AI Overview)

>Christianity Org UK: King Charles III - Faith and beliefs
King Charles III shares some aspects of the faith of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, but certainly not all. We take at look at his beliefs.

"King Charles seeks to be a monarch who reigns in a multi-faith realm, where Christianity is no longer the faith of the majority of his subjects. His personal life has caused some to question his faith but all Christians recognise they are sinners reconciled to God through the death of Christ; grace which extends to kings and commoners alike."

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:36 PM (NFX2v)

199 Pretty sure the Archbishop of Canterbury gives the Easter message.

I imagine she will do a fine speech about lesbians and transexual advocacy and how God is nonbinary

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (El6/E)

200 No Obama second term means possibly no Trump. People were fed up with the dems by then and were willing to try something new. If it had been one sad term for Romney and a Clinton sailed in to snatch away his second, (repeating the papa Bush/clinton history), that would have been devastating.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (Eng1Z)

201 King Charles has changed which faith he is the defender of?

-
Pulling a Henry VIII?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:34 PM (ndZc7)
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Well, Henry VIII was a big fan of beheadings...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (ESVrU)

202 What's upsetting people is that he popped right out with a Ramadan message, so they fwrl he should also have a word at Easter. Not saying I disagree, but they're reporting on this line it has always been a big address given

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (Vvh2V)

203 Pulling a Henry VIII?"

Herman's Hermits?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (XuXeR)

204 calls into question her ability to sequester her personal anti-war inclinations from her duties implementing the president's vision.

even if that vision is misguided, it's her job.
Posted by: pH
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Netanyahu was Minister of Finance for Ariel Sharon who not only just defeated him in election but they hated each other. Netanyahu did an excellent job for Sharon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (YvvFZ)

205 Yeah, she should have dropped a load of bricks on Joe Kent's head. Sorry - but you are no longer running for anything. You serve the president.

List of cabinet members and the VP by effectiveness:

Rubio
Bessent
Wiles
Vance
Vought

Those are the superstars.

Middle tier is Duffy, Zeldin, Wright, Burgum, McMahon. Very good.

Next tier would be everyone not on the bottom.

Bottom of the list would be Noem, RFK Jr, Tulsi, and Bondi. They've all had their challenges and screw ups. RFK Jr. is an ineffective speaker. Noem had weird personal crap. Bondi seems overwhelmed and confused. Tulsi doesn't have her heart in it.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (D7v4F)

206 She's been married seven times before.

Posted by: Wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (2Ez/1)

207 I mean with a name like *checks notes* MAGA Voice, it has to be trustworthy, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 06:33 PM (zZu0s)

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Mock Away! ;-)

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has 100% total confidence in DNI TULSI GABBARD, White House officially confirms

The reports she's about to be fired were FAKE NEWS.

"President Trump has total confidence in DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news."

"The President has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the American people." — White House spokesman Steven Cheung

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

https://is.gd/7j635e

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (PZZ/j)

208 >>> Apparently, the latest anti-Trump propaganda is he's all Alzheimered out! Did you hear him slurring his words last night?!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 06:32 PM (ndZc7)


Sonny Bunch, OFC, was hitting that really hard on the twitters.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (3uBP9)

209 Okay, you know I always run down Nightly News stories.

Tonight tired.

I don't know if all of you know this yet, but NBC is leading off with Pam Bondi being fired.

It's less funny without a dude waering ginormous tits.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (Sco7b)

210 Pretty sure the Archbishop of Canterbury gives the Easter message. Not that Chsrles shouldn't say something, but his mama gave a Christmas speech, not an Easter one.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at April 02, 2026 06:35 PM (Vvh2V)
---
¯\_(:/)_/¯
This was posted by GB Politics based in the UK.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (Fi81e)

211 Clinton sailed in to snatch"

PHRASING!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (XuXeR)

212 Well, Henry VIII was a big fan of beheadings...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 06:37 PM (ESVrU)

And headings

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (V4IXI)

213 OK, folks, think I'll call it a day. Talk to you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (ufSfZ)

214 King Charles III has indicated a shift from the traditional title of "Defender of the Faith" (referring specifically to Anglican Christianity) to "Defender of Faith" or "Defender of Faiths," aiming to represent all religious communities in a pluralistic Britain.

Yep. And its important to remember: he's the official head of the Anglican church. This is like the CEO of Coca Cola saying he's the Defender of all colas, even that crappy knockoff Shasta makes

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (El6/E)

215 178 Is not the King the head of the Church of England?

Yeah he's basically the Anglican pope but since the Anglican church has had its candle taken away, melted down, burned and its ashes scattered, it doesn't really signify.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Minor correction, I'm making an announcement on Easter, but it is called a fatwa. There will be some minor adjustments to the Church Of England to make it more inclusive for the modern UK, starting with referring to our deity by his specific name, Allah, instead of the more generic "God". Lots more minor tweaks to come!

Posted by: Pope Charles of Anglica at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (ycI94)

216 Help me find my keys and we'll drive out of here.

Posted by: Just the punchline at April 02, 2026 06:40 PM (2Ez/1)

217 The President has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the American people." — White House spokesman Steven Cheung


==

😂😂😂😂

he is right

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:40 PM (GD0B3)

218 King Jug Ears is a goatraper.

Wouldn't be surprised.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 06:40 PM (HW/1v)

219
Rapid Response 47
@RapidResponse47

@StevenCheung47: "@POTUS has total confidence in @DNIGabbard, and any insinuation otherwise is totally fake news. The President has assembled the most talented and impactful Cabinet ever, and they have collectively delivered historic victories on behalf of the American people."

https://is.gd/VUdQnv

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:41 PM (PZZ/j)

220 >>> His personal life has caused some to question his faith but all Christians recognize they are sinners...

See Christians, because of your faith you can't call us out on our crap. Shut up and take it.

>>> he's the official head of the Anglican church. This is like the CEO of Coca Cola saying he's the Defender of all colas, even that crappy knockoff Shasta makes

And putting out a statement endorsing Pepsi but not Coke.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 06:41 PM (Eng1Z)

221
Yep. And its important to remember: he's the official head of the Anglican church. This is like the CEO of Coca Cola saying he's the Defender of all colas, even that crappy knockoff Shasta makes
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (El6/E)

Only in the case of Coke they wouldn't be sticking their thumb in our Lord and Savior's eye.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:41 PM (vE0+H)

222 BREAKING 🚨 Trump’s White House CONFIRMS that President Trump has full confidence in Tulsi Gabbard

SHE’S HERE TO STAY 🔥

https://is.gd/0jRysl

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:30 PM


He said the same thing about pam bondi just a few months ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 06:41 PM (0N4FZ)

223 So she is resigning on her own accord ?

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (GD0B3)

224 Help me find my keys and we'll drive out of here."

Sure thing, bill...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (XuXeR)

225 It's been settled in my region.

Coats and bookbags for all holidays, real or imagined, religious or otherwise, and for anyone who'd like to participate.

And indigenous music.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (NFX2v)

226 In fairness, we were both wrong, it was election fraud (probably).
Posted by: Chuck Martel
---

Exactly. The American people, day to day people, knew that Obama was a stinking POS. Election fraud is the only way he achieved a second term.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (YvvFZ)

227 At least Trump had Bondi in his last cabinet meeting.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (GD0B3)

228 Noem was the head of Immigration Enforcement correct? I think that has been the biggest success of the administration thus far.

Is that in spite of her?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (V4IXI)

229 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Cheerwine at April 02, 2026 06:42 PM (2Ez/1)

230 You silly poncy limey twat. You aren't the defender of ALL faiths, you presumptuous jackass. You are, officially, the defender of one of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (eqMv7)

231 221. Only in the case of Coke they wouldn't be sticking their thumb in our Lord and Savior's eye.
Posted by: ...

True. And at Easter and Passover.

Posted by: L - No nic.... at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (NFX2v)

232 Minor correction, I'm making an announcement on Easter, but it is called a fatwa. There will be some minor adjustments to the Church Of England to make it more inclusive for the modern UK, starting with referring to our deity by his specific name, Allah, instead of the more generic "God". Lots more minor tweaks to come!

Posted by: Pope Charles of Anglica at April 02, 2026 06:39 PM (ycI94)

------------

Make Being Drawn, Quartered, and Beheaded -- But Mostly Beheaded -- Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (seACy)

233 I was never that thrilled about Bondi but I thought Gaetz was a poor first choice.
I'm seeing rumors being reported that Bondi is...friends...with Congressperson Fartman. If that's true...good grief, how awful does your judgment have to be to be friends with someone like that.
If she did leak to Fartsmell, i get why Trump canned her narrow a**. If i was him, if i heard she was friendly with that sh*tstain, i would have canned her long before that.

Posted by: Nelly at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (7gpcF)

234 Heh heh heh, I just found out there's a cut of meat called:
Flap Meat.

Wait, now I'm hungry.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (3uBP9)

235 So she is resigning on her own accord ?"

Maybe a prelude to a civic position?

/wait for it...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (XuXeR)

236 Anyone from the Auto-Pen administration should have been fired immediately

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 06:44 PM (Ia/+0)

237 Maybe a prelude to a civic position?

/wait for it...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:43 PM (XuXeR)

Cross your trek and hope to die?

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 06:44 PM (vE0+H)

238
As the Episcopal Church in America pays lip service in some respects to the C of E, it will be interesting to see what they do.

Nah. We know they'll for hard for the Muzz, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:44 PM (xG4kz)

239 >>> Heh heh heh, I just found out there's a cut of meat called: Flap Meat.
Wait, now I'm hungry.

You can eat my flaps any time...

Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (Eng1Z)

240 King Charles III has indicated a shift from the traditional title of "Defender of the Faith" (referring specifically to Anglican Christianity) to "Defender of Faith" or "Defender of Faiths," aiming to represent all religious communities in a pluralistic Britain.


The UK still has Judas Priest to be the Defenders of the Faith.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (ohOaC)

241 218 King Jug Ears is a goatraper.

Wouldn't be surprised.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
---

Nanny goats are safe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (YvvFZ)

242 "If i was him, if i heard she was friendly with that sh*tstain, i would have canned her long before that.
Posted by: Nelly"

THIS so much.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (UoFpr)

243 Heh heh heh, I just found out there's a cut of meat called:
Flap Meat.


That's just the twee millennial name for wings

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (El6/E)

244 234 Heh heh heh, I just found out there's a cut of meat called:
Flap Meat.

Wait, now I'm hungry.
Posted by: banana Dream

(Looks at Lena Dunham)

I don't think I want to know which flap it comes from.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (ycI94)

245 >>> He said the same thing about pam bondi just a few months ago.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 06:41 PM (0N4FZ)


BREAKING 🚨 Jim Cramer CONFIRMS that Jim Cramer has full confidence in Tulsi Gabbard

SHE’S HERE TO STAY 🔥

Posted by: Jim Cramer at April 02, 2026 06:46 PM (3uBP9)

246 Cross your trek and hope to die?"

Well, not in the outback, that's for sure

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 06:46 PM (XuXeR)

247 The UK still has Judas Priest to be the Defenders of the Faith.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM (ohOaC)

I think Faith No More has taken over the defense.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (V4IXI)

248 nood


quickies

Posted by: Jim Cramer at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (3uBP9)

249 Kent is one of those people who are a mystery to me. Well accomplished and a patriot but seemingly a retard
+++
What I don't get is why he had such a heel turn. He was reasonable and steady and patriotic then he went nuts in like 5 months. He's saying he absolute reverse of what he said before and how he's talking about testifying in defense of the dude who murdered Charlie Kirk. Something, someone has flipped several people in a major way and I really want to know who and how.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
===

Iran pays him better ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (/lPRQ)

250 Netanyahu was Minister of Finance for Ariel Sharon who not only just defeated him in election but they hated each other. Netanyahu did an excellent job for Sharon.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:38 PM (YvvFZ)

Dude was named after a f**king mermaid. No wonder Netanyahu hated his a**.

Posted by: Nelly at April 02, 2026 06:47 PM (7gpcF)

251
King Tampon believes so much in everything that he believes in nothing.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 06:48 PM (xG4kz)

252 Heh heh heh, I just found out there's a cut of meat called:
Flap Meat.------


Where did you find that out? Pornhub ?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:48 PM (V4IXI)

253 Time for Dem meltdowns.

The WH ballroom was approved 8-1 in the National Capital Planning Commission.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (Fi81e)

254 >>>Trump is not shy about moving someone he likes to a new position if he thinks the fit isn't right for the moment. If he really was furious with her she wouldn't be doing a 30 day transition.
Posted by: JackStraw
---

She was good with meat and potatoes work but
she was no demon slayer. Her replacement must be
a demon slayer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 06:49 PM (YvvFZ)

255 King Chuck now defending Islam.
Good luck with the Caliphate England

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 06:51 PM (Ia/+0)

256 You can eat my flaps any time...
Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 02, 2026 06:45 PM


* elbows Lena aside *

Us.

Posted by: The Ladies of The View at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (0sNs1)

257 We certainly need a Demon slayer

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)

258 You know who else defends islam? That would be William.

Lizzy saw where the butter was meeting the bread and went with it. Chuck isn't bright enough to have those thoughts on his own

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 06:55 PM (+nEug)

259 Anyone who opines that Iran was not a threat can't be anything but a retard.

Or lying, for whatever reason.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 07:25 PM (to48P)

260 If Charles III converts to Mohammedanism, can he still head the Church of England?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (to48P)

261 If Charles III converts to Mohammedanism, can he still head the Church of England?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at April 02, 2026 07:27 PM (to48P)
Is there a difference?

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 02, 2026 08:15 PM (P4Pk9)

262 Why? Do Democrats want Tulsi fired because she is a woman, a person of color, or because she uncovered the fraud and felonies that Barack Obama committed while President of the United States? Or is it a combination of the three?

Posted by: wferrin at April 02, 2026 09:01 PM (lCdHU)

263 This is garbage. The Tulsi rumor and cabinet polls were started by the same masturbators who leaked rumors about 45 cabinet officials. It might rhyme with Cannon.

Posted by: wferrin at April 02, 2026 09:07 PM (lCdHU)

264 Anyone who opines that Iran was not a threat can't be anything but a retard. They have been a threat for over 40 years. Only issue I ever have had with Reagan. He should have turned them into glass.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 06:16 PM

Interestingly, Charlie Kirk in June of last year was adamantly against war with Iran. Called Lindsey Graham insane for advocating for regime change in Iran.

YouTube (Charlie Kirk): https://bit.ly/3NERJ6I

"'Take out the Ayatollah!' Resist that temptation. That's not prudence. That's not self-control. That's something else talking. That's a zeal. Very same zeal got us involved in a pile of garbage in Iraq. It all felt good with 'Shock and Awe' in March 2003. 'We're unstoppable. We're gonna take Iraq in a weekend.' Turns out, it didn't work that way. A lot of people died. A lot of Americans died unnecessarily."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 02, 2026 10:33 PM (P5BPp)

Bobby "The Brain" DeNiro Is So Pro-Democracy He Wants a Council of Elders To Ban People He Doesn't Like From Running for President

nurse ratched asked for a "fun thread." I don't know if this counts, but maybe it does.

Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon

This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains of so many on the Left. In the name of opposing "totalitarianism" and "defending democracy," DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote.

What's sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election.

So much of their hatred of Trump is just an attempt to evade recognizing that democracy--their neighbors getting what they want when they vote in greater numbers--causes them searing psychic pain.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:38 PM




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1 SUPER GENIUS

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (N1DT3)

2 Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (dK+Kv)

3 The left has taken Orwell as a blueprint, not a warning.

Doublethink (TM) is their bread and butter.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (N1DT3)

4 It seems like we DO have a screening process, though it's debatable how robust it is considering some of the idiots who have landed on the final Presidential ticket (on both sides).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (ESVrU)

5
TDS is degenerative.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (IifOV)

6 Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (dK+Kv)

Eh. I expect actors to be idiots. They rarely disappoint.

However, we really need to do something about the people who DO look to celebrities for anything other than entertainment.

We need to go back to treating actors as barely better than prostitutes...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3)

7 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert Deniro

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (4NO2D)

8 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

9 What a maroon.

Posted by: bugs bunny at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (OFw3k)

10 "What's sad is that DeNiro is obviously experiencing immense, totalizing pain, genuine psychic distress at the outcome of an election."

Sad for who? All I got is joy joy joy.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (UoFpr)

11 To be fair, when the left wrests control and imposes their vision, I'll be under some psychological stress.

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (peFv8)

12 Great joke. What do you call it??

THE AUTHORITY~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (diia5)

13 DeNiro was never bright or learned, but he has been so praised, protected, and coddled that in his dotage he genuinely believes he is that great.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (El6/E)

14 grandpa is off his meds again

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (jGJov)

15 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win./i]

"Und zometimes, ve kill zem!"
--Germany

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (El6/E)

16 Some good news-

Lt. Dan Rooney, the founder and CEO of Folds of Honor, is running as a Republican in Oklahoma for Congress.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (NpAcC)

17 Oh, hey, I just pulled off the hat-trick Sponge. Three-peat baby!

/spikes the football, rounds the bases at a trot.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (N1DT3)

18 Say what you will about Bobby DeNiro, he never shot and killed a woman on set.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (ndZc7)

19 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

20 Oh, hey, I just pulled off the hat-trick Sponge. Three-peat baby!

/spikes the football, rounds the bases at a trot.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian


* holds out glove for a fistbump when FV skates by the bench *

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

21
This is the opposite of the Democracy these lunatics are always whining about.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (IifOV)

22
@bungarsargon


bung. ars. argon.

Now that is one self-confident woman!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (xG4kz)

23 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The Supreme Leader, obviously.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (4NO2D)

24 Bobby’s take is pretty mild. The usual hot take by the left is save our most precious democracy by putting our political opponents in prison. He’s only banning them from holding office.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (nLVHX)

25 "So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The same people that pick the Oscars.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (UoFpr)

26 >>>@bungarsargon
This is such a perfect example of how Trump broke the brains

It doesn't sit right to say that Trump broke them. They broke. They broke themselves--in response to Trump.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (fNISR)

27 A fun thread would be is where the Mariners beat the Dodgers in the World Series and us Mariner faithful get to gloat and snark until we pass out.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (glnUu)

28 Willowed:

Will there be a first female to set foot on the Moon?
Posted by: Maj. Healey


Alice Kramden is already there.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (J8NZO)

29 Eh. I expect actors to be idiots. They rarely disappoint.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (N1DT3)

At least, in the past, they kept their mouths shut for the sake of the profitability of their works. They should do that some more or starve.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

30 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.
Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)


Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced, ensuring by social or political pressure that no one can ever admit listening to them or supporting any part of what is said, and be called fascists or antisemites or something, so it is OK to destroy them.
Cass Sunstein was big on that, and lots of people thought it was so powerful a method, they should adopt it themselves.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (rbvCR)

31 The problem for the left is that all their radical dreams were JUST ABOUT to be totally realized and Trump interrupted them. Like, the cat jumped on the bed just before orgasm.

Then he proceeded to strip away one thing after another that they had imposed on us in their insanity, like tranny bathrooms and USAID graft. From their perspective this is like mom coming into your room, ripping all the posters off the wall and taking away your console game. Its someone desecrating their shrine to Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (El6/E)

32 TDS is real and it is both horrifying and hilarious.

I love trolling cow workers and it’s incredibly easy and they lose their shit and say really REALLY crazy stuff.

I had one comparing the adverts for MAID in Canada with the adverts for signing up for the Army the USA.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (A5RD0)

33 High School Equivalency Graduate Robert Deniro

-
Well, at least he wasn’t a plumber.
- Jimmy Kimmel

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (ndZc7)

34 Trump, a wildly successful businessman, isn't qualified to be POTUS but a failed community organizer and part time college instructor is.

Otay.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (viF8m)

35 How did Sparta chose the Ephors?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (rbvCR)

36
Perfect!

"Booby Hatch" DeNiro and Bruce "Old McSpringsteen" can be the charter members of this Council of Experts!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (xG4kz)

37 Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)


The Council of Zion, with wise elder Cornel West.

Posted by: I think The Matrix covered this council thing at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (XE5AP)

38 The funniest part is that the one country that I can think that has exactly this system is Iran. They have a council of Ayatollahs, I think they call it the Guardian Council, which rules on who is allowed to be a candidate or not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (cKPyM)

39 Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced

I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

40 They also want only “approved journalists” to be able to do journalism.

What it comes down to for these wretched filthy cockcuskers is they want credentials for everything. Why not a credential to run for president? And who will be the credentialing body? Why a far left organization of course. Like the ABA or AMA.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (nLVHX)

41 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,


Fuck you you cock sucker. You stay in NYC and choke on Mayor Jihadis taxes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (J8NZO)

42 4 It seems like we DO have a screening process, though it's debatable how robust it is considering some of the idiots who have landed on the final Presidential ticket (on both sides).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Every single way to pick leadership has been tried in history and failed to be perfect. Popular sovereignty, like Winston Churchill said about democracy, is the worst of all ways to choose a leader except for the other methods.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (E4rtv)

43 DeNiro needs to remove his monster shoes and stand barefoot in the grass. Maybe that would ground him.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (w6EFb)

44 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?"

The Supreme Leader, obviously.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Morgan Freeman?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (ndZc7)

45 Remember that movie where DeNiro's cat uses his mom's ashes as a litter box?
I don't want that fate for DeNiro's mom. To be clear.

Posted by: Meow, grunt, meow at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (gKWVE)

46 And i will be your Supreme Leader.

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (hUFDe)

47 "Dude has lost his marbles. He's ruined all his once enjoyable movies. FOAD.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"


Luckily for me, I was never a fan.

But I do like Heat.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (aTgV0)

48 De Niro played himself in Awakenings, but without the L-Dopa.

Posted by: Candice Owens at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (bNf8H)

49 Fkin DeNiro is a turned Marxists

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (Ia/+0)

50 Gee a screening process to run for president......Maybe, just maybe we could have a two part screening process just to make sure a person has been screened to run for president.


The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process. Let's call it a general election where everyone in the country gets to vote for the guy who they think should be president.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (0N4FZ)

51
Was Red Kammie "screened" by anybody, Booby?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (xG4kz)

52 Off nostrildame sock.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (bNf8H)

53 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

Resist that urge.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

54 27 A fun thread would be is where the Mariners beat the Dodgers in the World Series and us Mariner faithful get to gloat and snark until we pass out.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram


That would have been GLORIOUS!

Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

55 Taking advice from people whose entire life has consisted of playing make-believe is incomprehensible to me.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (iKI3U)

56
Somebody lower the lifts in Booby's shoes -- he's huffing the ozone layer all the time, now.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (xG4kz)

57 "The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process"

Oh, we don't need that

Posted by: The Democrat Party at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (UoFpr)

58 The Council of Elders approach was done by the Dims. They chose Commie Harris. Does he really want more of that?

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (pR6C/)

59 Is Nostridamus going to be on his council or is she too young?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (pDt9x)

60 This is a great idea. I think this council should be headquarted on the farthest island in the Aleutian Chain.

Too bad about that whole Constitution thingy.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (+DSUk)

61 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv8)

62
Same year wins in Superb Owl and the World Series?

New England / Boston, maybe?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

63 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)


Average people, unlike us, are credulous and easily led into sin. We must act now to prevent future problems, and make sure their actions do not endanger us all.
Their rights and freedoms are upheld by us, but their ability to chose must be curtailed in the preservation of their liberty.
We must become the ultimate arbitrators of acceptable discourse and investigation, thus we secure the future, everlasting, radiant and bring about the era of the New Man.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

64 This is pretty much what the commies did in every place that they took over, you could only vote for who the commies put on the ballot.

That is why smart people always say you can't vote your way out of communism.

I hate fucking commies.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (k1E2D)

65 The EU basically does this. Outlaws parties, outlaws individuals, negates election results when the approved parties don't win.
Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

The EU doesn't outlaw parties, you are assigned one when elected. However, since the parliament isn't the final rule on making laws this doesn't matter a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (8avO+)

66 Gotta go, I have a bunch of apple rootstock to graft.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (rbvCR)

67 [recollects that in the past, entertainers were looked down on]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (XeU6L)

68 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)

Resist that urge.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (dK+Kv)

Yes. That should be the screening process for allowing people into the country. If you are born here, we won't control your thoughts, but if you want to come here, we aren't letting in degenerate ideologies.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (N1DT3)

69 We must become the ultimate arbitrators of acceptable discourse and investigation, thus we secure the future, everlasting, radiant and bring about the era of the New Man.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (rbvCR)

He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine

He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (dK+Kv)

70 DeNiro's confused about what America has become? Welcome to the party pal...I'm pretty confused how the America I knew growing up became a dystopian leftist hellhole, where half the country can't define what a woman is, thinks LBGTQWTF is just peachy, loves communism, is just fine with dudes beating the hell out of women in sports, etc., etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (XMwZJ)

71 "When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong."

Posted by: Meryl Streep, Method Actor, in The Giver at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (XE5AP)

72 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86
Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv

And Penn State won the national championship. It was a great year for all my teams.

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (peFv8)

73 In order to make the actual moon landing DEI Approved the first moon flight will contain a crew of 3,345 to satisfy all the requirements to meet a perfect DEI Moon Landing Mission.

Posted by: Jackson K. at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (cAEZx)

74 It’s really fun and always beings a smile to my face to see fucknugget retards like DeNiro have complete and total mental breakdowns over the fact that Trump is their President. The mere thought of “President Trump” burns the gay worms fucking in their head like someone poured boiling oil on their brains. It literally causes them physical pain. I love it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (PudHT)

75 DiNero is a short little man with the short-man syndrome. A lot of things are tiny with him and he's frustrated.
......................................
O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

76 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86
Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (peFv

Jets and Miracle Mets came close I think.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (8avO+)

77 "He’s a rebel and a runner
He’s a signal turning green
He’s a restless young romantic
Wants to run the big machine

He’s got a problem with his poisons
But you know he’ll find a cure
He’s cleaning up his systems
To keep his nature pure"

That's so Rush sounding it has to be Rush.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (aTgV0)

78 50 Gee a screening process to run for president......Maybe, just maybe we could have a two part screening process just to make sure a person has been screened to run for president.


The first one is where your political party votes for the person they want to be president and then he/she goes on to another part of the process. Let's call it a general election where everyone in the country gets to vote for the guy who they think should be president.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (0N4FZ)

It's kind of funny that the people he wants to be in charge tried to do that in 2024.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (k1E2D)

79 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (fNISR)

80 *had

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:54 PM (fNISR)

81
They also want only “approved journalists” to be able to do journalism.

Remember when Fredo Cuomo informed we, the great unwashed, that we were NOT to read the ClimateGate emails -- only urinalists were qualified to do so?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (xG4kz)

82 >>If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.


Midnite Run was a great flick.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (TLp3A)

83 I don't think they are necessarily broken. Their way, the way of the left, has been the ruling conceptual framework of society for most of their existence. The government, the media, the GOPe, everybody just accepted that the leftists were in control of everything everywhere. Now, many of us didn't like that; we surely hoped it would change, but we had f-all means to change it.

Now there is one person who challenges that. And that one person is against all the government, the GOPe, the media, everybody but us few. So from the perspective of a leftist, this is just a short odd transient, an aberration from the established leftist norm. One man against the world who will be out of office soon and then it's time for seizing their rightful throne and exacting terrible vengeance against their vanquished enemies.

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (3uBP9)

84 >>I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

NY Mets and NY Jets both won in 1969.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

85 Do any of y’all troll acquaintances? Not being mean. But just eff with them and get them all fulffernittered and spitting and eyes bulging, just for ahits and giggles?

How do you do it so they don’t really realize it until they are frothing at the mouth and you walked away ten minutes ago?

This is my goal for April.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (A5RD0)

86 Italian?

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (3uBP9)

87 The absurdity is that the reason we have primaries is because self-declared progressives wanted the people to decide who candidates would be rather than letting a council of elites, party bosses at the time and congressional delegations originally, decide who candidates would be.

Now that popular choice is inconvenient, proggies want to fire the people and go back to secret councils in smoke-filled rooms.

Posted by: Sam at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (7jMef)

88 28 Willowed:

Will there be a first female to set foot on the Moon?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Alice Kramden is already there.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (J8NZO)

; )

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (fNISR)

89 OT:

I stumbled onto NASA's live coverage of the Artemis II mission on YouTube.

They're showing the external camera view of the engines.

In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

90 FEED ME!

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (3uBP9)

91 Alice Kramden is already there.
Posted by: rickb223

I watched the old Hitchcock movie Rebecca yesterday which had a scene set in a French restaurant. Laurence Olivier called a waiter over, "Garçon!" Reminded me of when Ralph and Alice were in Paris and Ralph calls the waiter over, "Gargoyle!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ndZc7)

92 No actors opinion is more important than mine on anything but acting, and there are even some exceptions to their acting opinions is my stance.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (pDt9x)

93 I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)



The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas in a balanced and ruthlessly honest manner - showing both bad and good (if there is any good in those ideologies) mixed with a strong dose of critical thinking skills.


Unfortunately, the commies figured this out and took over and poisoned our education system to do exactly the opposite.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (iKI3U)

94 Trump didn't break their brains -- the programming did that.

They are like the guys in A Clockwork Orange that puke when they think of violence.

DeNiro is just highly susceptible to the programming because he has a very weak mind (most actors do) and a very high desire to be liked and conform (most actors do.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (MHAh2)

95 I do not think it sad that DeNiro is in agony.

Just for the record.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (aTgV0)

96 Same year wins in Superb Owl and the World Series?

New England / Boston, maybe?
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

Seems NY has done it multiple times. (Pre-and Post superbowl)

Detroit has done it. (Well, Pre-superbowl)

Pittsburgh

San Francisco

Boston.

A few others have also have an NHL title or NBA title with MLB or NFL.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (N1DT3)

97 Mmmmm, banana Dream

Posted by: The Barrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (XE5AP)

98
Oh, boy! I get to go to The Barrel!

That's a damn sight better than getting sentenced to serve time in the Space Toilet, that's for sure!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (xG4kz)

99 Oh dear. Krebs, report to the Apollo 10 launch aka "the interplanetary barrel"

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (gKWVE)

100 Wow, today is like a "You are fired!" day !

"BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (GD0B3)

101 100

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:57 PM (fNISR)

102 Mmmmm, banana Dream
Posted by: The Barrel


banana Dream fixed it. Krebs started it. You only get one. Don't be greedy.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (VHUov)

103 At least, in the past, they kept their mouths shut for the sake of the profitability of their works. They should do that some more or starve.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:46 PM (dK+Kv)

But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)

104 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

Midnite Run was a great flick. - Posted by: garrett
Good Fellas

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (glnUu)

105 >>The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas in a balanced and ruthlessly honest manner -


Watching Commies and Islamists, in the thousands, getting summarily and publicly executed is a Lesson few would forget.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (TLp3A)

106 100 Wow, today is like a "You are fired!" day !

"BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57

Asked or ordered? I want ordered.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

107 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (VHUov)

That's the problem with the utopianists. Most systems sound ok -- if you are the one in charge. You should aways assume that your enemy, or an idiot, gets charge of your perfect system to test if it is workable at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (8avO+)

108
I've got my bindle stick packed and I'm off!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (xG4kz)

109 musta been all those punches to the head in "Raging Bull"....

Posted by: pahound at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (HJCDN)

110 what's the read on this guy?

@disclosetv 12m
JUST IN - Pete Hegseth asks Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement — CBS

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (diia5)

111 >>> In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)


Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

112 We could call them super delegates or something.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (okun6)

113 Are the Jets and the Giants going to suck again this year? As opposed to the Texans who do okay until the first playoff before they grease up and bend over

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

114 It's always Todd

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (Cqx++)

115 We need to go back to treating actors as barely better than prostitutes..."

At least prostitutes leave when everything's done...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (cGjQu)

116 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote.

Hey, you all could meet on Epstein's Island!

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (xQK38)

117 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
---
Hollywood Accounting makes quantum mechanics look like basic arithmetic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (ESVrU)

118 Not a "council of elders". A family of Made Guys.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (AlhUl)

119 So I'm told....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (cGjQu)

120 BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, according to CBS News. Circumstances unclear."
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:57

Asked or ordered? I want ordered.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (pDt9x)

Ordered, but internet is unreliable!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (GD0B3)

121 I love about Al Pacino. He has skill, talent, intensity, a willingness to take risks, and above all range - King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (film and on the stage) and two versions of Richard III.

And I don't know his politics.

Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

He's got an $8 million mansion in Montauk and a 98 acres estate in Gardiner NY.west of Poughkeepsie, so he's plenty insulated from the progressive shit he whines about.

I hope ICE puts a detention facility next door to him in both places.

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)

122 Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)
---------------

The antidote to those ideas is a healthy education system that teaches about those ideas....
Posted by: Chairborne!.
----------
These are diffferent classes of ideas.

Fascism runs through every man's heart and requires education and morality, and a society to keep down.

Socialism (communism...) is the white noise of ideology. We are all socialists when infants and we learn about the world and learn that others are not there to provide for us. This requires teaching and education.

islam is a slave cult and must be banished.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (MHAh2)

123
* checks toilet in Barrel *

It flushes! This place is luxurious!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

124 I was actually thinking about checking out what was playing locally and then this clown had to shoot his mouth off. And today I see Streep is flapping her gums convincing us women are too stupid to figure out how to vote.
Fu*k Hollywood.
Not one more dollar from me, assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (2WIwB)

125 Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?

Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)

Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (dK+Kv)

126 We had to burn the village to save the village.

We must initiate totalitarianism to prevent someone we don't like from getting elected and becoming a totalitarian.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (D7v4F)

127 Maybe the old guy waz fooling around with his secretary !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (GD0B3)

128 I invoke my short-arse privilege to observe that:

This is exactly the kind of authoritarian outlook I'd expect from a guy who's spent decades wearing shoes with 4-inch soles so that he can act like a tough guy in movies.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (z5QST)

129 Huh. Maybe runner's right on this one. Could it be that Trump and Vance are planning to call shens on Thune's bogus "recess" and appoint a bunch of MAGA?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

130 What De Niro wants is a totalitarianism of the left to combat the mere potential for totalitarianism on the right.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (D7v4F)

131 nurse ratched asked for a "fun thread." I don't know if this counts, but maybe it does.
---
I think it does, since it features a clown.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)

132 Oh, boy! I get to go to The Barrel!
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot


I see you didn't get the Platinum Membership instruction card. Item 5 says to put [ / i ] in the Name field after your name ( without the spaces, obviously. )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (diia5)

133 Are the stars red or blue? Is there apparent parallax? Are they traveling to other galaxies?
Posted by: barrel at April 02, 2026 04:59 PM (3uBP9)
---
it could just be a camera artifact. The image does jitter and skip quite a bit as the signal comes and goes. There are similar black lines that streak over the whiteness of the engine.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (ESVrU)

134 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,
_______________________________

Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

135 121 I love about Al Pacino. He has skill, talent, intensity, a willingness to take risks, and above all range - King Lear, The Merchant of Venice (film and on the stage) and two versions of Richard III.

And I don't know his politics.

Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)

*applause!*
And The Godfather.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (fNISR)

136
DeNiro started out sucking as an actor in "Mean Streets" and almost without exception, he has sucked ever since.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (xG4kz)

137 The fight is with the Argument of Utility.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (TLp3A)

138 If we none of Robert De Niro's movies survived, would we care.

He has had a bunch of great movies, but honestly I would not be heartbroken if they were gone forever. I mean I really like Heat an Midnight Run and Godfather Part II and The Untouchables, Bronx Tale, Casino, and Goodfellas. I even like stuff like Brazil and Jackie Brown. But I don't need to ever see them again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (El6/E)

139 I think it does, since it features a clown.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:01 PM (Fi81e)
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Except no one likes clowns.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (ESVrU)

140 * checks toilet in Barrel *

It flushes! This place is luxurious!
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (xG4kz)

***

Well, after flushing do NOT look up at that pipe sticking out from the ceiling.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (2WIwB)

141 @129 Vance is busy with the Paki hotline.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (GD0B3)

142 Well, if Bobby is experiencing severe pain, he can always go to Canada. I hear they have a banging new treatment for people that have pain.

In fact, if Bobby got his pain dealt with, that might actually go a little way to making me feel better too.

See Bob, everybody wins! Go to Canada!

Posted by: Nelly at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (7gpcF)

143 Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget."

Christian Doppler whimpers...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (cGjQu)

144 DeNiro's confused about what America has become? Welcome to the party pal...I'm pretty confused how the America I knew growing up became a dystopian leftist hellhole, where half the country can't define what a woman is, thinks LBGTQWTF is just peachy, loves communism, is just fine with dudes beating the hell out of women in sports, etc., etc.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM


Don't forget the part where the liberals celebrate grown naked men walking around locker rooms with their junk hanging out while young girls are there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 05:03 PM (0N4FZ)

145 Red shift at Artemis speed? Do not think so.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (pDt9x)

146 >>I think the Mets and the Giants both won in '86

NY Mets and NY Jets both won in 1969.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (viF8m)

the Bears won the SB following the 85 season, which was in Jan 86. There is an ambiguity in this stat as to what year / season is in the 'same year'

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (8avO+)

147 Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Deniro's kink getting shit on by Black Models?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (TLp3A)

148 the whiteness of the engine."

Engine privilege?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (cGjQu)

149 In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

uh, no. You have to get to a significant percentage of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) to get the visible red shift thing going.

Red streaks flashing away? Maybe somebody on board is a chain smoker, and they're tossing their cigarette butts out the open window. Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (lLEcp)

150 Has any city ever won both the World Series and the Super Bowl in the same year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (A5RD0)

Pyongyang?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (g8Ew8)

151 Super Bowl and WS winners in same season
1970 Orioles and Colts
1986 Giants and Mets
2004 Red Sox and Patriots
2018 Red Sox and Patriots

While none of these happened during the same calendar year, they were in the same season because the Super Bowl was/is played in January/February.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (k1E2D)

152 Why am I seeing stuff like this all over the place?

"According to multiple current Trump administration officials with access to Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was just named Acting Attorney General, has been the main roadblock holding up prosecutions of former Biden officials, state-level politicians, and Antifa terrorists. Todd Blanche personally shut down the DOJ’s “weaponization” task force and is responsible for sidelining Ed Martin.

Todd Blanche sees himself as a “principled” conservative and views investigations of Trump enemies like Jack Smith as an “abuse of power.” He has privately told staff that he will not “stoop to that level.”

Under Todd Blanche, the failure of the DOJ to investigate left-wing terrorists and former officials who prosecuted President Trump will only get worse."

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (GD0B3)

153 Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering."

Don't mess with Texas!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (cGjQu)

154 Is there a "No Midget Pretend Mafiosi" movement in America?

Bobby De Niro is a scrub, a back bencher, and he's not as bright Bobby Boombats.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (UqSya)

155 In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going (6400+ mph at the moment)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (ESVrU)

It's the aliens leaving the dark side of the moon

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (pR6C/)

156 The goofs across the street from me are wearing covid masks while they hang out in their garage. This is striking me as nutso behavior. Could be wrong. Pretty sure I am not.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:06 PM (glnUu)

157 66- Did someone say graft?

Posted by: Omar the raghead at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (OFw3k)

158 Red shift at night. Rocket's delight.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (Cqx++)

159 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
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Hollywood Accounting makes quantum mechanics look like basic arithmetic.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (ESVrU)

it's just fraud, it isn't complicated.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (8avO+)

160
By denying Trump's legitimacy, these leftists are denying the legitimacy of the majority of voters who elected him. If they want him in jail for winning, they want us in jail for voting for him.

DeNiro is reportedly pretty dumb. He's probably just repeating what people around him are saying.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (biznJ)

161 Blanche helped Trump in NY with Trump's bimbo situation, which means nothing. He sounds like another Andre McCarthy.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (GD0B3)

162 uh, no. You have to get to a significant percentage of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) to get the visible red shift thing going.

Red streaks flashing away? Maybe somebody on board is a chain smoker, and they're tossing their cigarette butts out the open window. Hope they don't start a fire or get ticketed for littering.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 05:04 PM (lLEcp)
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No, I guess it's just camera artifacts. Although they are using a decent resolution camera, it's still showing some stuttering in the image.

Right now you can see the crew slowly rotating a solar array. Frames are being skipped.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (ESVrU)

163 This is the opposite of the Democracy these lunatics are always whining about.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:45 PM (IifOV)
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They are context free. They don't know what fascism is. They don't know what makes kings. They just flap their lips.

I stopped calling people on news shows "panel" and started calling them "news yackers". Because they just yack, many of them don't know shit about shit quite often and their performance is just emoting how they're mad as hell and aren't going to take (what?) anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (Fi81e)

164 I found a man confused, angry and bewildered at what America had become. He just could not understand who or what Donald Trump really was.
===

Not really. He is just fundamentally incurious.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (RIvkX)

165 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)

166 runner, thank you. I remember reading about Blanche 's opinions now.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (+nEug)

167 I like Casino. I can watch it over and over. But anything more recent with him in it I can't watch. His idiocy has ruined them.

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (lCppi)

168 I think that my college football team, my pro football team, and my favorite MLB all won championships in the same season once.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (4NO2D)

169 39 Exactly, some points of view are so toxic to the way things ought to be, that the people who espouse them must be silenced

I am actually coming to this perspective regarding Islam, Communism, and Fascism. Some ideas are so toxic to society and culture, to liberty and civilization that they cannot be allowed in our public discourse.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:48 PM (El6/E)


I dream of the day that Marxism and Islam are treated like White Nationalism, and if you look around a meeting wondering who the narc is, it's all of them. Literally every single one of them except for you is an undercover agent or registered asset with some state, local, or Federal agency or another. They're all building files on each other's cover identities like it's a great big game, except that you yourself will be going to PMITA prison for real if you so much as sneeze wrong. And they're all trying to get you to cross state lines with a controlled substance, explosive device, and NFA firearm, in the service of a recorded conspiracy.

Posted by: SciVo at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (Sy6m/)

170 Joe Biden?

Posted by: pahound at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (HJCDN)

171 Super Bowl and WS winners in same season
1970 Orioles and Colts
1986 Giants and Mets
2004 Red Sox and Patriots
2018 Red Sox and Patriots

While none of these happened during the same calendar year, they were in the same season because the Super Bowl was/is played in January/February.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper

I am more than mildly annoyed that the Red Sox and Patriots are on that list twice. Once is plenty. Zero is perfect.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (glnUu)

172 Many actors learn to act when young by taking on a persona and getting a reaction. They learn to read the audience and see what gets a big reaction, and they keep doing that.

It is why they are considered on the level with whores. They are whoring for attention. Some get very rich doing that.

Once they get rich, they get surrounded by a lower class of whore, the sycophant. The groupie. So now you have a rich attention seeking whore, and a money seeking attention giving whore and like two rats fucking in a coffee can on a hill, it just keeps rolling down faster and faster until it crashes.

So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (MHAh2)

173 DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office,
_______________________________

Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)
Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)

So, Democrat candidates will be chosen by Joe Biden until he dies? This could be entertaining.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (S/Y4j)

174 But Hollywood became just a giant money laundering machine, with no profit motive whatsoever.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 02, 2026 04:58 PM (lLEcp)
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Nah, if they were there to make money, the money makers like Hail Mary wouldn't shock them into kinda talking about how they kinda might change the movies they are making.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (Fi81e)

175 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think."

Too tall to play Muggsy Bogues?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (cGjQu)

176 @Ben Had, what d'you remember ??

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (GD0B3)

177 I think that my college football team, my pro football team, and my favorite MLB all won championships in the same season once.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (4NO2D)

Happens every year if you just change the teams when somebody wins.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (8avO+)

178 Wait just a second DeNiro... don't you have to have a committee to then decide on who can be on the elite committee?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (n5tGW)

179 We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 02, 2026 05:10 PM (n1OCj)

180 I want to trip him on a banana peel.
And mock him.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (KtOUo)

181 he is there temporarily, but he should not be there at all !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (GD0B3)

182 >>> Is it red shift that is a result of moving very fast past a light source that shows an apparent increase in wavelength? I forget.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (dK+Kv)


I actually can't remember if it is affected by the velocity of the inertial reference of the observer or just a function of the universe's expansion. Space stuff is to funky for my engineering brain to understand very well. You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

183 Isn't this how Democrats choose their presidential candidates? I mean....literally. (Kamala Harris)

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 05:02 PM (dIske)
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Superdelegates are the American way!!

This is the party that relied on ACLU through a good portion of the 20th century to legislate social change in the courts. I mean, fuck these people's understanding of "democracy"! It's all slogans to these people.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

184 runner, what you said about holding up and refusing to prosecute cases.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (+nEug)

185 I want to trip him on a banana peel.
And mock him.


I dunno, he might break a hip at his age.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (El6/E)

186 Experts say Experts know best.

Posted by: The Experts at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (glnUu)

187 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 05:09 PM (MHAh2)

I think they have medium size tubs of coffee grounds still.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (8avO+)

188 87 The absurdity is that the reason we have primaries is because self-declared progressives wanted the people to decide who candidates would be rather than letting a council of elites, party bosses at the time and congressional delegations originally, decide who candidates would be.

Now that popular choice is inconvenient, proggies want to fire the people and go back to secret councils in smoke-filled rooms.
Posted by: Sam at April 02, 2026 04:55 PM (7jMef)

Up until 2008, the Dems had their "Super Delegates" which were party insiders that make up about a third of the delegates to the DNC. They were formed for the express purpose of stopping somebody like Jessee Jackson from becoming the nominee.

In 2008, Hillary had secured almost every super delegate to vote for her, and there was concern that those delegates would have put her over the top in 2008, so a push was made to get her to let them vote for Obama and not destroy his historic first and tick off the black vote.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (k1E2D)

189 Philly, of all places, had all 45 "major" sports teams in the championship game/rounds in one season, 1980-81.

Only the baseball Phillies managed to bring home the trophy.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (9CBNQ)

190 But I'd definitely miss this dumb prick's movies if they were gone. Heat and Ronin in particular, which I can rewatch virtually without limit. Also Angel Heart, which I like quite a bit. I more or less expect to hate all actors anyway though. So Micro Bobby's distemper doesn't really register much.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (z5QST)

191 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player,
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Even Spud Webb was 5'7"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (XeU6L)

192 Doh, not 45. Four, lol.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (9CBNQ)

193 From now on, I will refer to Robert DeNiro as 'the suctorial Robert DeNiro."

Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (OFw3k)

194 DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (GD0B3)

195 I'm on the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president. Assuming the committee above me accepts my application.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

196 Retardo DeNiro

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (V4IXI)

197 mean, fuck these people's understanding of "democracy"! It's all slogans to these people.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (Fi81e)

You've just nailed it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (g8Ew8)

198 19 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski
.....................................
It's been done.

-Soviet Union

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (1BNwQ)

199 In case someone didn't already mention it:

@DataRepublican
Officially credentialed Pentagon press corps as of today, alongside my interpreter @DataInterpretr . First Deaf journalist to hold the badge. Thank you @JoelValdezDOW for moving mountains to make this unique arrangement possible. Naturally, the legacy media is invited to congratulate the Department of War on their commitment to press corps inclusiveness.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (diia5)

200 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)

201 I actually can't remember if it is affected by the velocity of the inertial reference of the observer or just a function of the universe's expansion. Space stuff is to funky for my engineering brain to understand very well. You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:11 PM (3uBP9)

The shift is that of the spectral lines caused by absorption of light by various molecules between the source and observer. They move redward or blueward depending on the velocity of the emitter relative to the observer. Assuming the light emits at all frequencies equally, the color of the object would appear the same at any redshift.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (8avO+)

202 You'd think delta v is delta v, but who knows?"

Wasn't that a video game too?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (cGjQu)

203 DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM


The problem is that it's full of lawyers.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

204 Nobody was shot in Las Cruces yesterday. On the other hand a 15 year old is currently on trial for being part of a gang of 4 that shot up a park last year, killing 3 and wounding 14.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (glnUu)

205 I'm on the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president. Assuming the committee above me accepts my application.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM (n5tGW)

CA politics in a nutshell.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (g8Ew8)

206
We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Circle of Fiends

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (Cqx++)

207 committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet the committee to vet who can be president"

There's a lot of vett'n going on around here ..

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:16 PM (cGjQu)

208 Meanwhile DeNiro only plays himself and has no range, only playing variations of 'tough guys" which is funny considering his dad was a big deal gay artist and his family had dough.

He's got an $8 million mansion in Montauk and a 98 acres estate in Gardiner NY.west of Poughkeepsie, so he's plenty insulated from the progressive shit he whines about.

I hope ICE puts a detention facility next door to him in both places.
Posted by: vivi at April 02, 2026 05:00 PM (OFw3k)


That's weird how so many "dark" and or "Tough" actors are really privileged nepo-kids.

Kinda like the Beatles and Stones. The Beatles really were the poor, tough, street kids and the Stones were the flouncy, art school soy boys.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (iJfKG)

209 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer and all which I remember nothing about from my college days.

I understand it's a ways away and all. I was born in '70 and don't remember any of the early space stuff so I don't have a reference in my mind for how long it would take.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (3uBP9)

210 In case anyone is interested, there is a live feed from cameras on Artemis II

https://youtu.be/_MbnRqxtvUY

Posted by: Joyenz at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (2F0/Y)

211 We can all it "The Council of Experts", after its Iranian equivalent.

Circle of Fiends"

Elrond?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (cGjQu)

212 The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)

I was going to say that the problems is that lawyer are duplicitous bastards😂

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (GD0B3)

213 IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

IMDB spots all the male actors a couple inches, its kind of hilarious. Look up Tom Cruise heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (El6/E)

214 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think. Posted by: tubal
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2" They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada. Posted by: Axeman


"Robert De Niro Wears Platform Shoes to Tower Over Al Pacino" (2017)
https://is.gd/fpQ8ga

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:18 PM (glnUu)

215 When DeNiro first came on the scene he had a unique quality to evoke a real person on the screen, as well as a presence. I was blown away by the uniqueness of his performance the first time I saw him, and at that point in my life the main thing I wanted to was to be an actor.

But that doesn't make him worthwhile listening to about politics.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (Fi81e)

216 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal
_________

Put a Fletch afro on him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (XvL8K)

217 I think I read that DeNiro is 5'4"" tall. He never played an NBA player, I also think.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:07 PM (pDt9x)
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IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"

They wouldn't choose somebody below 5'6" to play the raging bull Lamada.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (Fi81e)


DeNiro is 5'9" only if he's wearing his mega-soled Frankenstein shoes. There enough photos out there to show how that works.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 05:19 PM (iJfKG)

218 Whatever his height he is a prick.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (pDt9x)

219 I miss the cans.

Boob thread.

Posted by: jugear fukstik at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (Kt19C)

220 always take many days to get to the moon"

Depends. Round trip or not?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (cGjQu)

221 >>> Retardo DeNiro
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (V4IXI)

======

If it hasn't been said, I believe it's been reported that he has to read off of cue cards for his lines in his movies. I’m sure it's probably not true because I read it on the interwebz. /

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (CyFyf)

222 The Golden Scalp Weasel causes localized collapses in alternate reality fields. This can be very disconcerting to some individuals.

e.g. Holy Shit, I'm just an actor. I don't know anything about the real world.

Posted by: DaveA at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (FhXTo)

223 >> In the background you can see red streaks zipping through the camera view. I'm wondering if those are stars, illustrating just how fast the spacecraft is going

No, parallax from the spacecraft's translational motion would be effectively zero, so vanishingly small it would be (parallax from near stars over 6 months is pretty small over 1AU). They are rotating and changing attitude all the time, which would give you a relative motion of the background star field relative to the camera, but it would be slow.

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

224 Bob can choke on a bag of Dicks. Hollywood actors rate below pond scum on my scale.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (UoFpr)

225 Bobby has to look no further than his wonderful Democratic Party. The “Super Delegates” got rid of Bernie Sanders twice, and was there anything worse than installing Kamala, the supposed most qualified woman in human history, who chose not to campaign for fear of questions and . . . Joe Rogan podcast? Fucking retard.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (OTOad)

226 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer and all which I remember nothing about from my college days.

I understand it's a ways away and all. I was born in '70 and don't remember any of the early space stuff so I don't have a reference in my mind for how long it would take.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:17 PM (3uBP9)

its more or less the same time, but the distance of the moon from earth is not uniform. I think I heard this one is a bit faster transfer than most old Apollos were. The main issues matching pace with the moon's own motion.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (8avO+)

227 The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)
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"My God, it's full of lawyers!"

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)

228 Funny how De Niro's idea of democracy corresponds so neatly with the ayatollahs. Isn't this how Iran's presidents are chosen, by a panel of mullahs?

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Tbs6N)

229 >>> DOJ is probably the most important as far as security of the administration, and the most difficult department to clear of out of garbage.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:13 PM


The problem is that it's full of lawyers.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 05:15 PM (4NO2D)


Well, that's not nearly as interesting...

Posted by: Dave Bowman at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (3uBP9)

230 Midget Mafia? Joe Pesce is pretty damn short.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (wBaIH)

231 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (pDt9x)

232 ---
IMBD has him at 5'9 1/2"
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With, or without these shoes?
https://shorturl.at/63xT0

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (XeU6L)

233 I'm just an actor. I don't know anything about the real world.

This is the proper response to someone asking about your politics. "I memorize words other people write and repeat them, why are you asking me about anything??"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (El6/E)

234 always take many days to get to the moon"

Depends. Round trip or not?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (cGjQu)
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Apparently it's supposed to be a 10-day mission, though the first day or so is just flying around the Earth, moving to high-Earth orbit, testing systems, etc., before actually beginning the main leg of their journey away from Earth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (ESVrU)

235 No, parallax from the spacecraft's translational motion would be effectively zero, so vanishingly small it would be (parallax from near stars over 6 months is pretty small over 1AU). They are rotating and changing attitude all the time, which would give you a relative motion of the background star field relative to the camera, but it would be slow.

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

The largest parallax from Earth orbit is less that one second of arc (360/60/60). A parsec is 3+ light years, Proxima Centaury is 4+ light years.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (8avO+)

236 157 66- Did someone say graft?

graft zeppelin is best graft

Posted by: anachronda at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (oY6Yp)

237 75
O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 04:53 PM (WONhk)

Prayers up, Christy! I know this is a tough time for all of you.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (va0Yo)

238 This fucking retard doesn't know?

There's a rigid, uncompromising structure of ruling class institutions specifically designed to filter out any American from having a federal office, elected or appointed.

It's literally the entire purpose of the Acela Class government. It's all it does. NO AMERICANS. It's more exclusive toward us even than Republican Rome was toward Italians.

Trump just fucked it all it up. He slipped through. He was the guy it was all made to stop, and it failed.

De Niro is so dumb he doesn't know he's swimming in it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (BI5O2)

239 Is a 10 day mission like a 3 hour cruise?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (pDt9x)

240 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)

241 >>> "My God, it's full of lawyers!"
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:21 PM (Fi81e)


Well, that's not nearly as interesting...
Posted by: Dave Bowman at April 02, 2026 05:22 PM (3uBP9)


JINX!
(punch)

Posted by: Banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (3uBP9)

242 >> Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon? I assume they are using an efficient hohmann transfer

This is similar, yet very different to the Apollo mission TLI trajectories. It has to do with the SLS/Orion's delta-v budget. Go to the Artemis tracker here, get the hang of the 3D view controls, and you'll see the trajectory.

Rotate it around to see the orbital plane of the Moon vs the spacecraft and how the free return slingshot changes planes of the spacecraft:

https://is.gd/CKLeJm

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (w6EFb)

243 So who decides who's on the "body of elites," or "council of elders?" That is, who elects them? Is there another council that decides who can run for the council?

Is it councils all the way down?
Posted by: mikeski
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It's been done.

-Soviet Union
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (1BNwQ)

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So...a group of elites, lets call them a vanguard, who are party members and from them a smaller, more collectivist group emerges that form a bureau of the political body. This political bureau then selects the leader.
Say....this sounds familiar...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (2WIwB)

244 Speaking of movies, watched 2 episodes of Landman last night. Not politically correct. Hope that continues.

I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)

It seems a pattern that if a show escapes from the suits and is popular, it rarely escapes them for long.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (8avO+)

245 O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby.

So awful, its always heartbreakig. God be with her and her family, and you, Christy. May He give you all peace and comfort and bring you closer to His love.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (El6/E)

246 Democrats have already converted to the De Niro model of selecting a presidential candidate? Kamala did not go through the usual selection by members but was chosen by a secret panel.

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (Tbs6N)

247 Landman is pretty based all the way through. I heard the next season will be back more to the oil business part and less of the females and family, but I didn't mind looking at those babes.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 05:26 PM (n5tGW)

248 Is the artemis mission slower than last century's moon missions or did it always take many days to get to the moon?

There had been complaints in the neighborhood, so they're trying to take it easy.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:26 PM (BvTxf)

249 Can't say I see a point of flying just around the moon.

We do it every day

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (Ia/+0)

250 Kamala did not go through the usual selection by members but was chosen by a secret panel.

I mean, the last time Democrat voters picked their candidate was 2004.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (El6/E)

251
Another constraint on the Artemis trajectory that didn't apply to Apollo was Orion is solar powered, while Apollo used fuel cells. They can't let Orion be in the dark for much over an hour or so (I'm sure they've got contingencies, but normal mission profile needs sunlight).

That put a lot more constraints on the timing and trajectories compared to Apollo.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (w6EFb)

252 more fun..

"The Hezbollah fighter who wore his own burial shroud before battle has been identified as Fadel Abbas Awwal, killed yesterday in southern Lebanon."

He dressed for the occasion!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 05:27 PM (GD0B3)

253 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 02, 2026 05:12 PM (z5QST)

I judge the actors in movies whether I can see the movie being just as good with someone else in the role. De Niro has a couple where I can't see someone else in the role. King of Comedy is one.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (V4IXI)

254 Ask Bernie Sanders how this "body of elites" works.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BvTxf)

255 >>> The largest parallax from Earth orbit is less that one second of arc (360/60/60). A parsec is 3+ light years, Proxima Centaury is 4+ light years.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 05:23 PM (8avO+)


In the old Star Trek TOS beginning where the ship is darting around with star parallax, that would be really freaking fast and huge distances. But I guess dey got dem crystals and warp fields and wotnot.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (3uBP9)

256 Why would I watch a show about a tycoon, just to see a bunch of dumb broads and their womanly problems? I have more than enough of that IRL.

Note to self: pass on "Landman."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BI5O2)

257 TDS is degenerative.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (IifOV)

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Hard to work out what came first, the TDS which leads to their dementia or was it the old age dementia that causes the TDS. That young people also suffer from it is simply a trend in their social circles and they don't want to be different.

Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (Tbs6N)

258
Just heard something about Artemis communication. This is the first time since Apollo, over 50 years, that the Deep Space Network has carried human voice communication.

That sort of got me right here thinking about it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (w6EFb)

259 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way. That's kind of mind blowing.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:30 PM (V4IXI)

260 Why would I watch a show about a tycoon, just to see a bunch of dumb broads and their womanly problems? I have more than enough of that IRL.

Note to self: pass on "Landman."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Sort of surprised you didn't opt to pass on the tycoon option.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 05:31 PM (glnUu)

261 Trump didn't break them, he just make them reveal their true nature.

Posted by: John M at April 02, 2026 05:32 PM (CzLfO)

262 Can we vote DeNiro off the island?

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 02, 2026 05:32 PM (+QijZ)

263 They use a really high-bandwidth laser system and radio.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (3uBP9)

264 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way

A parsec is 3.2 light years I think. There are no stars in that radius from us.
Ten parsecs will net a nice selection of stars although I don't think any have habitable planets (we'd know).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (gKWVE)

265 Hard to work out what came first, the TDS which leads to their dementia or was it the old age dementia that causes the TDS. That young people also suffer from it is simply a trend in their social circles and they don't want to be different.
Posted by: Decaf at April 02, 2026 05:29 PM (Tbs6N)
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I think DeNiro is just left-brain dumb. The only reason he has any say in anything is that he had so much success in the movies that he became a political _donor_. And like a donor thinks he needs to tell people what they owe him for the money. He's shelling out, and Trump's getting elected president and the Republicans (in some form) control both houses, and conservative cases win in the SCOTUS.

That's got to be frustrating.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:33 PM (Fi81e)

266 "But, he was convicted of 34 felonies!"
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This is the crux of the argument about Trump. To the left, this is honest, to the right is it total bullshit.

Fake charges never leveled against anyone else, ie, a completely novel prosecution, in a court so fatally biased that the judge's family was making money off the case while it was ongoing!, and the corrupt prosecutor is herself an actual criminal. The conviction resulted in no actual penalty, and even as a conviction was just a symbol to the left.

Simple justice demands this be overturned. But, a National Exorcism is going to be necessary to get it out of the minds of lefties.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kBqIc)

267 Okay nurse.

On 'The Five' they showed Pritzker out celebrating 'Walking Day.'

That was funny.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (Sco7b)

268
223

Those are likely reflections of debris , ice particles, and other venting from the spacecraft.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:20 PM

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If they ejected some whiz into space, the resulting cloud of sparkling ice crystals is reportedly quite a sight.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kf4RM)

269 Ask Bernie Sanders how this "body of elites" works.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 05:28 PM (BvTxf)
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"They give me houses."?

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:35 PM (Fi81e)

270 >> They use a really high-bandwidth laser system and radio.

They are testing that for video feeds and stuff, but the mission critical comms are using the DSN. Critical comms are voice, telemetry/navigation, and system "health" info.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:35 PM (w6EFb)

271 Because I missed the Artemis thread...

>>> Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.
One reason is that the female body doesn't handle being dirty as well as the male body. (Private parts being interior rather than exterior makes cleanliness both more important and more difficult to do.) Also a reason women shouldn't be in the military.Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (N1DT3)

Fine. I will use Ace's Time Machine to go back in time and tell the pioneer women that crossed the plains and the Oregon trail to stay home. And the immigrant women who sailed on boats from Europe to America to stay home. And the Hebrew women that Moses freed to just stay put in Egypt. They don't travel well apparently.

Women can travel just fine. We have been doing it for Thousands of years. Even if we have smaller bladders.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:36 PM (gWBY1)

272 Deniro is not one of the good fellas.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (y+Apl)

273 I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.

The Marshals spinoff is simply awful. I quit it halfway through the second episode.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (ceJ0R)

274 >> If they ejected some whiz into space

See the ONT last night. They did a piss dump. And they had to upload procedures for the piss dump. While the space toilet was on the fritz, they had to use the CCU, collapsible contingency urinal. And then they had to dump it.

My mind was blown to learn they had to turn some heaters on in the system to warm up the piss before venting. Otherwise it would freeze and clog up the outlet nozzle. So, hot piss dump in space.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:37 PM (w6EFb)

275 Can't say I see a point of flying just around the moon.

We do it every day
Posted by: Skip


It's to look at the other side. Duh.

Posted by: the chicken at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (VHUov)

276 Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:34 PM (kBqIc)
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Not to mention that they had to play peek-a-boo with the statute of limitations and the jury instructions were like a twisted version of Fred Rogers, "Well what crimes do you think Mr. Trump might be hiding?"

They ignored the standard that every element of the case must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and just went to the Land of Make-believe for the jury.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)

277 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)

278
So awful, its always heartbreakig. God be with her and her family, and you, Christy. May He give you all peace and comfort and bring you closer to His love.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:25 PM (El6/E)

......................................
Thank you, Christopher. I'm already a bit better than when I asked upthread. I told son and DIL that faith is made deeper with grief and hardship.

My prayers are that God will, in His timing, give them a future baby from their love. They married in 2024 and were so excited.

I am ok if something is wrong with me...but with our sons I am Mama Bear and can't handle when they are hurting. I can't fix this and nurses fix things.

This was their first and very early, but already much loved by all of us. I'll meet that baby someday in heaven.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

279 Can rarely define who has been drinking too much, or too little, online.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (NFX2v)

280 I think I read "Hot Piss Dump In Space" in a review for one of Marilyn Manson's albums

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (gKWVE)

281
Water released into space boils off until it pulls enough heat out to freeze, then continues to sublimate. This close to the Sun, there's enough light flux to sublimate it all away and quickly.

Now, way out in the outer solar system, some ice would remain and is would cold enough the vapor pressure would get very small.

By heating the outlet tube and nozzle, they keep the liquid stream from freezing before it clears the spacecraft.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (w6EFb)

282 Star Trek OS was limited to a parsec in the Milky Way. That's kind of mind blowing.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 05:30 PM (V4IXI)
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Well, I can't think of another OS with that much coverage.

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (Fi81e)

283 I'm at my parents house and am seeing The Five for the first time. What a bunch of retards.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (UoFpr)

284 277 So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)

So does Bustelo. I haven't tried Chock full of nuts, how is it MP4?

Posted by: moki at April 02, 2026 05:40 PM (wLjpr)

285 >>> So they still have coffee cans in USA? In Japan it is all bags. I miss the cans.

Chock Full O' Nuts still comes in cans.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (ufSfZ)


You can get a big 3lb metal can of Kriklands at Costco. That's what I pickup when it's my time in the coffee club at work. Folgers is in plastic cans now but I'm sure those will hold your odd washers and bolts as well as the metal ones.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

286 I haven't tried Chock full of nuts, how is it MP4?

OK, I suppose. I only keep it in the house for guests. To me, coffee is coffee. I'm a tea drinker.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (ufSfZ)

287 I have heard that other than the portrayal of the really messed up women, its pretty based. But Yellowstone was too, until it wasn't, heh.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (El6/E)
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His other new show "The Madison" (starring the Madison River, and Michelle Pfeiffer, which are both pretty spectacular) is not terrible. It's about an entitled city family getting in touch with their humanity when essentially forced to live in Montana for a while.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (Krt8w)

288 75. O/T but I ask for prayers for my son and DIL who are going through a miscarriage with their first baby. I can do nothing but pray through my tears for this unexpected sadness.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Oh, that's sad. So sorry for their lose and yours, and prayers for all of you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 05:42 PM (NFX2v)

289 ChristyBlinky, prayers for your family. My mother had 5 miscarriages between my brother and myself.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (+nEug)

290 Nood. More HR drama speculation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

291 I rewatched The Martian recently. It's fun sci-fi, but I started getting ticked off that the character Matt Daaaaamon played turned every act of survival into a "one day people will study and celebrate me, I have to make my mark!" Leaving his signature on the walls of the site or whatever. I realize it's fiction. But it annoyed me.

Maybe it was just good PR, but the astronauts in the 60s seemed to care more about achievement than making a legacy for themselves. Am I wrong? The current astronauts (real ones not fake space tourists) also seem to be in the same frame of mind. Are they secret fame whores and I'm not seeing that?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 05:44 PM (gWBY1)

292 This was their first and very early, but already much loved by all of us. I'll meet that baby someday in heaven.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:39 PM (WONhk)

I'm so sorry Christy. Hugs to you and your family. Yes indeed, you will see that baby and hug and love on her for eternity!

Posted by: moki at April 02, 2026 05:45 PM (wLjpr)

293 They ignored the standard that every element of the case must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and just went to the Land of Make-believe for the jury.
Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 05:38 PM (Fi81e)
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They did everything possible to enable the plaintive wail "but....but....he's a convicted felon!!"

Fake case. Show trial. Corrupt Democrats. Gave Democrats the symbolic conviction they wanted, at the cost of destroying Americans faith in the justice system.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 05:46 PM (Krt8w)

294 Christy, Prayers are sent for your family at this difficult time
.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (yTvNw)

295 I drink coffee black no creamer and chock full is one of my favorite brands for that. People say it's bland but I wouldn't agree.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 02, 2026 05:47 PM (3uBP9)

296 289 ChristyBlinky, prayers for your family. My mother had 5 miscarriages between my brother and myself.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 05:43 PM (+nEug)

Thank you. I know it is not unusual or rare early on (9wks).

My husband's reaction was to text our son his sorrow, and that his mother miscarried and then "cranked out five babies." Such a delicate group are the males in my family, when I was a sodden mess (I cry about every 5-7yrs).

Thank you. I have hope for a future baby for them. I knew it was difficult from reading about it, but knowing they hurt made it so much harder.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:48 PM (WONhk)

297 Thanks for the prayers and kind thoughts, y'all.

I'm doing ok now and they will grieve and hope for the future with a stronger faith. Many friends and family in FL for them who will help, and have personal knowledge of this sadness. It's unchartered for me and all I could offer is prayers and hope.

Life can certainly take a turn fast, which is why we should find joy each day.

Today son was going to tell his brother about this baby after the OB visit.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 05:51 PM (WONhk)

298 Hey, who brought the fish?

Posted by: Blind Astrronaut at April 02, 2026 05:54 PM (9CBNQ)

299 ChristyBlinky

Prayers ascending for a full recovery. Then, Practice makes Pregnant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (u82oZ)

300 LizLem

60's test and combat fighter pilot machismo. Then John Glenn added publicity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:57 PM (u82oZ)

301 299 ChristyBlinky

Prayers ascending for a full recovery. Then, Practice makes Pregnant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 05:56 PM (u82oZ)

Thank you. Laughing at the advise...

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 06:05 PM (WONhk)

302 Always remember that these are the people who thought that Joe Biden was fit to be president then decided that Harris was a better choice.
Their opinions are scoff-worthy.

Posted by: Max Entropy at April 02, 2026 06:57 PM (oxDA9)

303 Deniro has been on heroin for years, guys. He goes on it, then he goes off of it. I'm guessing he's on it again. This was confirmed to me by a friend of his. His brain is FRIED.
This big secret will probably not come out until the loser dies.

Posted by: Tammy at April 02, 2026 06:58 PM (tHEhe)

304 "DeNiro thinks there should be a body of elites who bar people from running for office, including someone who went on to win the popular vote."

So, basically Communist China's "democratic" practices in Hong Kong.

Posted by: JTP at April 02, 2026 07:28 PM (ttA2x)

305 167 I like Casino. I can watch it over and over. But anything more recent with him in it I can't watch. His idiocy has ruined them.
Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 05:08 PM (lCppi)

De Niro was great in Taxi Driver, Godfather II, Ronin, and Cape Fear. Now, all his later work is like he’s mugging for the camera. Maybe it’s the quality of his work, maybe it’s that I know too much about him now.

Posted by: Advo at April 02, 2026 09:00 PM (jO4mz)

The Left Found a Way to -- Get This -- Politicize the Artemis II Launch and Denigrate Space Travel

I guess they agree with Cavernous Nostrils that Space Is Fake and Gay You Guys.

The BBC posted that the space launch was an example of "colonialism" -- before deleting it without admitting it.


More whining by personally and economically useless complaining robot NPCs at Hot Air.

This is neat:


Some silliness.

tabletartemis.jpg


Houston, we have a problem!

Eagle-eyed NASA fans were left stunned after spotting an Artemis II commander entering his tablet PIN in plain sight on the launch livestream.

Viewers wasted no time trying to guess astronaut Reid Wiseman's code after he unlocked his device 19 minutes before Wednesday night's launch.

Wiseman, 50, grabbed his stylus and entered the four-digit code in plain sight, making it impossible for viewers to miss.

"I appreciate you wanting to get people interested in rocket science, but maybe don't broadcast that the PIN to unlock the tablet on the rocket is either 9393 or 3939," one viewer wrote on X.

I smell an overpowering whiff of Aksually.

Here's a little rule that idiots don't know: The more determined you are to broadcast that you are Superior on a free social media platform generally acknowledged to be a sewer for the unemployable, the most certain the rest of us are that the only things you're superior to are jack and squat and Jack left town and Squat died five years ago "with" covid.

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1 Shocking

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:38 PM (N1DT3)

2 But centered

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (N1DT3)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (LdBR/)

4 I gues they agree with Cavernous Nostrils that Space Is Fake and Gay You Guys.

I find your oversight in mentioning the "you know who" disturbing
..

Posted by: Candace Owens at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ycI94)

5 That view from the commercial flight is crazy. I wish I could have been there for that.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (N1DT3)

6 Tina Peters conviction thrown out!!?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (4KUe5)

7 Just wait until Trump sends astronauts to land on the moon. He will announce we own the moon and libs everywhere will crap themselves. Along with the Chicoms. Can't wait!

Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (sgrzZ)

8 You have no idea how many people that I thought were highly intelligent say that we have never went to the moon or space.

Lost respect for more than a few.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (J8NZO)

9 Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...

Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (sgrzZ)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

11 Fair to middlin'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

12 This isn't gonna turn into another toilet thread like the MR, is it?

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (77rzZ)

13
Yes, Crazy Candace is Flat Earth Curious, and has been for some time. Space is fake and gay.

Meanwhile, I tune back into NASA's live mission coverage stream, and what do I hear? More space toilet tech talk. The Orion crapper is a bitch, looks like. It may well be fake and gay.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (w6EFb)

14 I lum'd nood, ya bastages.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

15 That airplane view is really fucking cool.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

16 I will say again - be honest what is the last big thing (not person) leftard media or politicians were actually correct about, even accidentally.

They have literally made a living being wrong and/or lying about EVERYTHING. It's weird. Then again you can say much the same of the GOP.

Which puts us where.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (kNAyK)

17 Besties with Eric Swalwell evidently BUT, she was doing a great job!!!

He always told me he new the best Chinese to eat out and whenever I asked where he said at home and looked all confused.

Also kept talking about his cool mysterious girlfriend but I never got to meet her.

He was kind of an odd guy

Posted by: Pam Bondi at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

18 Flight nominal. Right down the middle.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (G0vdT)

19 I'm feeling very centered today.

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (1Au9i)

20 Nailed it.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (XuXeR)

21 "broadcast that you are Superior on a free social media platform"

On this platform I proudly declare my mediocrity. Go, Midbrains!

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (N8ZBc)

22 Is there a way we can get the aliens, who like to abduct and probe, to mind scan the intended victim first and only proceed if xer/xim is a lefty?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (5yDGQ)

23 Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...
Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (sgrzZ)

We have some flat earthers at our church. They are rather... odd. I was more shocked that there are real people who believe the earth is flat, rather than who believed it.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (N1DT3)

24 I'm stuck in the middle but I do believe you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (NFX2v)

25 That view from the plane was impressive. Most impressive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (kgE5c)

26
This is one of Flat Earth Theory's leading X.com lights:
https://is.gd/ok7JqM

There are others, but he's my favorite.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (w6EFb)

27 A lot of nominal security bullshit like this makes things less secure...

Making people remember codes and passwords wastes more user time then hacker time at this point.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

28 "I hope we push that one day...it's about human history, humanity, NOT 'black history,' not 'women's history,' but that it becomes human history!"

Only a racist or sexist would say that!

Seriously, the death of Marxism can't come soon enough.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (xQK38)

29 Very cool X video. Why is everything centered now?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (E6xSb)

30 Ok, this is freaking me out...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (XuXeR)

31 Imagine working hard your whole life, studying taking care of your body, learning the science, and getting selected for the astronaut program. Then, imagine doing your best and finally getting into a rocket, walking the gantry and stepping into the capsule, you're going to the moon, one of a tiny number of humanity that has ever done so.

Then imagine that instead of praising you and talking about your skills, considering you an Astronaut, the news focuses on your skin color and genitals.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (El6/E)

32 Upchuck 3 continues to Upchuck.

Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ndZc7)

Afraid of being struck by lightning I gather.
Posted by: Oldcat

And hoping they'll eat him last.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (ndZc7)

33 BTW the entire point of every report is to divide. That's why they don't care what they're saying or if it's right or wrong. That's why everyone keeps scoffing yet they don't change.

They can't have people looking at something as unifying as a space launch and all feeling good about it at the same time. A hopeful unified populace is Enemy #1 to these faggy demons.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (kNAyK)

34 Did they name the rocket after the Wild Wild West guy?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (V4IXI)

35 4 I gues they agree with Cavernous Nostrils that Space Is Fake and Gay You Guys.

I find your oversight in mentioning the "you know who" disturbing
..
Posted by: Candace Owens at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ycI94)

Zip it, Nostrildamus!

Posted by: The Unknown Comic at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (4WD4d)

36 Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera

==

That is awesome!!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (GD0B3)

37 You know who else wanted a base on the dark side of the Moon.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (4NO2D)

38 15 That airplane view is really fucking cool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

It was interesting that (to my eye) it took about 20ish seconds for the rocket to get at the level of the commercial air liner.

Just a reminder of how far it is to escape our atmosphere, and even more to escape our orbit.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (N1DT3)

39 The BBC posted that the space launch was an example of "colonialism" -- before deleting it without admitting it.

___________________________

Hell yes!!!! In fact, when they do their first orbit of the Moon, that colonialist Canadian Astronaut is going to have to make a Land Acknowledgement to the original moon landers (the United States of America) or he gets tossed out the hatch.

In fact, any future moon landings by countries other than the US will require a stipend tribute (there will be a collection dish) as well as a heart felt Land Acknowledgement to the original occupants. Those from India will receive a memo reminding them to pick up their trash. Chinese missions will receive a memo warning them not to steal anything.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (dIske)

40 Oh and a similar case to this - during the WoT some Jihadi hacked a French news station's social media.

And the way he did it was comical. The News station did a "behind the scenes" broadcast where they went through the employee areas.

The guy that ran their social media accounts had a sticky on his PC with the passwords so if you freeze framed it you got the passwords.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

41 35 Ha!

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (N8ZBc)

42 I lum'd nood, ya bastages.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM


I hope you cleaned it up, at least.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (kgE5c)

43 8 You have no idea how many people that I thought were highly intelligent say that we have never went to the moon or space.

Lost respect for more than a few.

......

I'm sure they've recovered from losing your highly coveted respect.

Posted by: You've Never Been at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (FvL0s)

44
Om.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (OHfJt)

45 > Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...

No. They just claim all of those pictures from NASA are fake.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (mkw2N)

46 [ Insert the actor Neil McDonough Cadillac commercial here ]

Why did we leave stuff behind on the moon?
Because we knew we were coming back, that’s why!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (4KUe5)

47 Saw Cavernous Nostrils open for Pussy Riot at the Getty Center in 2011.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (abIsI)

48 If the earth was really flat, on some parts of the slab rocks would not fall down, but at an angle.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (8avO+)

49 Ace gets disappointed when we make asides about a missing or malformed close tag.

Don't disappoint Ace.

CBD will be along at some point to justify things.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (0sNs1)

50 "The Paolo, he launches, how you say, big rockets into deep spaces every night"

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

51 On this platform I proudly declare my mediocrity. Go, Midbrains!
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (N8ZBc)


Not me. I'm definitely smarter than all of you.

Ok, most of you.

Alight, a few. You know who you are.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (N1DT3)

52 Please God let this mission end safely and successfully. Amen!

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (N8ZBc)

53 Then imagine that instead of praising you and talking about your skills, considering you an Astronaut, the news focuses on your skin color and genitals.
----------------
Imma white but my genitals are quite remarkable.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (n17eQ)

54 Why is everything centered now?
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM (E6xSb)


Ace cut the engines. We're in free fall.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (gKWVE)

55 I wish my tee shots were like this.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (rJ48h)

56 Meet me in the middle.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (DgMqy)

57 after 50 years we finally get to go the moon again using the latest in Microsoft technology and Social Media

what could go wrong?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (REq0p)

58 Ok, post-bong hit question of the day....

What EXACTLY is space and how is it expanding?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

59 Diversity in space is our strength.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

60 Space is pointless because there aren't any space criminals for me to feed to space panthers. I'll leave that to the suits at NASA.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (BI5O2)

61 >>>The Left Found a Way to -- Get This -- Politicize the Artemis II Launch and Denigrate Space Travel

Stolen land?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)

62 after 50 years we finally get to go the moon again using the latest in Microsoft technology and Social Media

I see you want to orbit the moon, do you want help with that?

Posted by: Clippy at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (sKqQm)

63 Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (Da7Vv)

64 >>> White supremacy is on the march in outer space.


It is what it is.
Recognize and Accept.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (/lPRQ)

65 I saw Suicidal Superiority Complex open for Throwing Muses at the Black Cat in ‘98.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (4KUe5)

66 Why did we leave stuff behind on the moon?
Because we knew we were coming back, that’s why!
Posted by: Lizzy


We didn't figure on the giant mutant tardigrades, though. They're gonna make things difficult.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

67 Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...

If the Earth was flat, the cats would have knocked everything of the edge by now. Debunked.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (abIsI)

68 Amazon Women on the Moon > Space Panthers > Jewish Space Lasers

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

69 Ah, the Verge. Pixy's favorite whipping boy of a website. Pixy always has clever things to say about the Verge. You'll be shocked to discover it's mostly negative but amusing. Apparently The Verge is a vast wasteland of despair and communism.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (sAmhv)

70 Willowed:

Get a piece of plywood that is larger than the strike zone.

Drill several holes in it, bit enough for a Softball to pass through. Number them / Color them...whatever. Make the kid pitch to those holes until he can thread those needles at will.
Then rotate 90 degrees, rinse and repeat.

Repetition. It builds muscle memory.

Same approach as hitting off a tee.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (TLp3A)

We have a 3x3 pitching target we're using. Painting the corners is what we're working toward.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (dK+Kv)

71 37 You know who else wanted a base on the dark side of the Moon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (4NO2D)

Megatron?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (N1DT3)

72 67 Concur.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (N8ZBc)

73 CBD will be along at some point to justify things.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM


ISWYDT

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (4NO2D)

74 Space is pointless because there aren't any space criminals for me to feed to space panthers. I'll leave that to the suits at NASA.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (BI5O2)

The documentary "Cat Women on the Moon" might be instructive as a possible way out.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (8avO+)

75 Curing cancer only allows white supremacists to live longer to oppress minorities .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (V4IXI)

76 56 Meet me in the middle.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (DgMqy)

I'm Stuck In The Middle with you. And you. And you.

Posted by: The Unknown Comic at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (4WD4d)

77 The audio on Victor Glover's comments didn't work for me.

Posted by: Sam Adams at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (X+xvk)

78 >> If the earth was really flat, on some parts of the slab rocks would not fall down, but at an angle.

You assume they actually believe in physics. They don't. They don't believe in gravity. I'm serious. Gravity is fake and gay as well. You may ask, well what the hell pulls them down to the ground. You can just read their answers for that. IT's "density", you see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

79 Wait until the astronauts find Bigfoot foot prints on the moon!

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (isQma)

80 37 You know who else wanted a base on the dark side of the Moon.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (4NO2D)

Megatron?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM (N1DT3)

Pink Floyd

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (8avO+)

81
White male BBC reporter complains we have too many white males on the job.

It's amazing how these white male liberal social critics never quit their own jobs to make room for WOCs. Dude, T'shawnette McKee wants a job and she can twerk like a worm on a hot pan. Step aside!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (n7rxJ)

82 I saw Suicidal Superiority Complex open for Throwing Muses at the Black Cat in ‘98.

----

Where is the Black Cat? I have ideas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (BI5O2)

83 Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...
Posted by: Diabeetus
.......

It's a disk. Duh.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (UjdFS)

84 Here's a little rule that idiots don't know: The more determined you are to broadcast that you are Superior on a free social media platform generally acknowledged to be a sewer for the unemployable

*****************

Behold the midwit

they are the worst people on earth, just smart enough to convince you they are smart (and hence why they are almost always the ones promoted over the people that are actually competent) but stupid enough to F up the world straight into Idiocracy

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (REq0p)

85 63 Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General.

Alternate Headline: President fires empty pantsuit

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)

86
Centered!

Just like a space turd in a space bowl!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (xG4kz)

87 You have no idea how many people that I thought were highly intelligent say that we have never went to the moon or space.

Lost respect for more than a few.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (J8NZO)

I have learned to grudgingly respect people who have long said they don't trust our government or institutions.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (kNAyK)

88 Yet, they cheered when, 'On April 14, Blue Origin successfully completed its eleventh human spaceflight and the 31st flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren Sánchez. Including today’s crew, New Shepard has now flown 58 people into space.'

Geewhiz. Blue Origin’s flights (e.g., NS-31 in April 2025) are suborbital tourism aimed at offering a "groundbreaking" experience for passengers.

Conversely, Artemis II is a complex, 10-day deep-space mission intended to send humans around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (NFX2v)

89 "Colonialism".

LOL!

Then again, I recall one of these retards jabbering about the "fragile lunar ecology" some years back.

Posted by: Hard aground on Bligh Reef at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (IG3/x)

90 Metatron > Megatron > Lord Zedd

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

91 >> If the earth was really flat, on some parts of the slab rocks would not fall down, but at an angle.

You assume they actually believe in physics. They don't. They don't believe in gravity. I'm serious. Gravity is fake and gay as well. You may ask, well what the hell pulls them down to the ground. You can just read their answers for that. IT's "density", you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

pretty dumb of them to be aping science while denying it. Better to just have little angels doing the work.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (8avO+)

92 NASA needs more trannies in space.

Haters

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (Sco7b)

93
after 50 years we finally get to go the moon again using the latest in Microsoft technology and Social Media

I see you want to orbit the moon, do you want help with that?
Posted by: Clippy

===============

lol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (n7rxJ)

94 63 Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (Da7Vv)

This needs to be a running joke.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (N1DT3)

95 Curing cancer only allows white supremacists to live longer to oppress minorities .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:49 PM


They keep minorities alive so their oppression never ends.

It's insidious.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (4NO2D)

96 The Black Cat is in DC, owned by Dave Grohl.
Has an adjacent smaller venue called the Red Room (missed opportunity on my post above - d’oh!!)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (4KUe5)

97 The Blue Origin flight was odd.

The video they released of Bezos opening the pod clearly happened AFTER they actually opened the pod for the first time

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (sKqQm)

98 Iron Sky (2012)---The plot follows Nazis who escape to the dark side of the moon in 1945 to build a secret space fortress, eventually launching an invasion of Earth in 2018.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (dIske)

99
PIG....IN....SPACE!!!!!

-Muppet show

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (IifOV)

100 You have no idea how many people that I thought were highly intelligent say that we have never went to the moon or space.

Lost respect for more than a few.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (J8NZO)

I have learned to grudgingly respect people who have long said they don't trust our government or institutions.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM (kNAyK)

Intelligence and sense are often widely divergent.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (8avO+)

101 > IT's "density", you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

Density of the type found in their skulls.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (IG3/x)

102 We chose to have our posts centered not because its easy but because its hard....and we're idiots.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (G0vdT)

103 I don't want an Attorney General. I was an Attorney Specific.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (kNAyK)

104 Pam Bondi fired as Attorney General.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (Da7Vv)

This needs to be a running joke.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (N1DT3)

Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (V4IXI)

105 I saw Suicidal Superiority Complex open for Throwing Muses at the Black Cat in ‘98.

----

Where is the Black Cat? I have ideas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General


And why on Earth would you throw muses at it?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (OUMaO)

106
I hope you cleaned it up, at least.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (kgE5c)



Always leave it cleaner than I found it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

107
Then they have solved the Artemis Gordonian knot of the malfunctioning Space Loo, yes?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (xG4kz)

108 55 I wish my tee shots were like this.
Posted by: mr tmz



If I manage to hit a shot down the middle, that either means it was barely off the ground. A really long putt with a driver basically, or I hit a very good drive down the middle, and the second shot will find some hazard, somewhere, because golf hates me. I continue to play though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (sAmhv)

109 Microsoft's progression:

Then: Clippy GO AWAY I DON'T WANT YOU

Now: Copilot GO AWAY I DON'T WANT YOU

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

110
Blue Origin is trying to get in on the Moon lander action. I'm pulling for them as well as Elon. The more the merrier to get in on lander designs.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (w6EFb)

111 Conversely, Artemis II is a complex, 10-day deep-space mission intended to send humans around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM


With a considerably higher chance of death, both sudden and horribly lingering.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (4NO2D)

112 > 103 I don't want an Attorney General. I was an Attorney Specific.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (kNAyK)

Either that, or redefine the job to be the head of an elite corps of public executioners.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (IG3/x)

113 I always thought it would be funny if we could find a way to imprint a huge 'bomb Mohammad' image on the moon to mock the muslims.

If they don't like it, let them go there themselves and fix it.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)

114 Always leave it cleaner than I found it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM


*nods*

As is the Army way.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (Wnv9h)

115
Is the restroom on Artemis II a gender neutral one?

-MSM

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (IifOV)

116 PIG....IN....SPACE!!!!!

-Muppet show
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 03:52 PM (IifOV)

***

*looks around and overhead*

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (2WIwB)

117 With a considerably higher chance of death, both sudden and horribly lingering.

Da

Posted by: Many a cosmonaut at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

118 Conversely, Artemis II is a complex, 10-day deep-space mission intended to send humans around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:51 PM

With a considerably higher chance of death, both sudden and horribly lingering.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (4NO2D)

I dunno, when all those women showed up in the SAME OUTFIT....lives hung by a thread.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (8avO+)

119 You don’t need a muse if you’re already brilliant?
Just throw it away!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (4KUe5)

120 Trump made the left stop being gooners and wanking themselves furiously to space and "the science!" What can't he do?

The left doesn't realize that they had the most diverse female space cadets in space, EVAR, and everyone laughs at them. Because the DEI chosen women were doing an incompetent vanity trip. But it helped Katy Perry snag Castreau so she's happy.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (gWBY1)

121 Glover must be another one of those black white supremacists.

Posted by: steevy at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (YwEeS)

122 Interpretation: Like Debbie Jellinsky “(We) I want you dead and (we) I want your money!”

For diplomacy!!!!

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:55 PM (NFX2v)

123 It's the Monie in the middle.


https://youtu.be/MwOzqLYM6S8

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

124 Rick from The Young Ones works for Sky News (and lost his hair) apparently

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (j+aD2)

125 We already launched MG Charles Bolden in 1980. He

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (LHPAg)

126 I heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

She must of broke it breaking it in.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)

127 103 I don't want an Attorney General. I was an Attorney Specific.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (kNAyK)

Either that, or redefine the job to be the head of an elite corps of public executioners.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (IG3/x)

or an attorney sergeant since they get all the actual work done.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (8avO+)

128 talking

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)

129 I love the Artemis crew

LOVE!!!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (j+aD2)

130 Todd Blanch is acting AG.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (Da7Vv)

131 You have no idea how many people that I thought were highly intelligent say that we have never went to the moon or space.

Lost respect for more than a few.
Posted by: rickb223


You're asking them to trust Intelligence, the military, Hollywood, the government, and the media. How will you make your case?

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (xQK38)

132 > With a considerably higher chance of death, both sudden and horribly lingering.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (4NO2D)


You guys have seen the alternate speech that Nixon had prepped for the event the Apollo astronauts didn't make it back, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (IG3/x)

133 Oh, the insanity we're going to see on July 4th this year.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (XvL8K)

134 He just Left us here.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (DgMqy)

135 Todd Blanch is acting AG.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM


He was XO before, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (4NO2D)

136 I always thought it would be funny if we could find a way to imprint a huge 'bomb Mohammad' image on the moon to mock the muslims.

If they don't like it, let them go there themselves and fix it.
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (Sco7b)

Chairface Chippendale has the technology....

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (8avO+)

137 Just wanted to point out that I nodded first. Like a gentleman.

Sponge nooded last, as is the natural order for his kind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (zZu0s)

138 PIG....IN....SPACE!!!!!

-Muppet showPIG....IN....SPACE!!!!!

-Muppet show


JEWS...IN...SPACE!!!!
--Mel Brooks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (El6/E)

139
Glover must be another one of those black white supremacists.
Posted by: steevy

===============

I wouldn't have even given the reporter that much. I would refuse all questions about being "the first African American" or "the only African American" anything. Just refuse the question.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (n7rxJ)

140 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:54 PM (Wnv9h)

Hey, RMBS. If you have a chance to talk to Mr. Poppins, please tell him that Sarah Hoyt was promoting one of his Theda Bara mysteries on Instapundit. I mentioned it in a post this morning, but I don't think he was here to see it.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (77rzZ)

141
Marco suited up with a plunger in hand to fix the Space Toilet is hilarious.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (xG4kz)

142 It's a disk. Duh.
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM


*facepalm*

Posted by: Zombie Terry Pratchett at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (Wnv9h)

143 Density of the type found in their skulls.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (IG3/x)
----------
Makes osmium seem like balsa wood.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (OHfJt)

144 You're asking them to trust Intelligence, the military, Hollywood, the government, and the media. How will you make your case?
Posted by: t-bird


We weren't this corrupt in '69.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (J8NZO)

145 I heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

She must of broke it breaking it in.
Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)

You're shitting me. I said that as a joke last night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (zZu0s)

146 I wish my tee shots were like this.
Posted by: mr tmz


If I manage to hit a shot down the middle, that either means it was barely off the ground. A really long putt with a driver basically, or I hit a very good drive down the middle, and the second shot will find some hazard, somewhere, because golf hates me. I continue to play though.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (sAmhv)


I'm the guy who completely misses a wide open fairway and then is convinced that I can funnel my next shot between two huge trees.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (2WIwB)

147 I wouldn't have even given the reporter that much. I would refuse all questions about being "the first African American" or "the only African American" anything. Just refuse the question.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (n7rxJ)

just congratulate the reporter for being the first mentally retarded beat reporter on the Space program.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (8avO+)

148 Marco suited up with a plunger in hand to fix the Space Toilet is hilarious.
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 03:58 PM (xG4kz)

142 It's a disk. Duh.
---------

Heh, yeah I saw that. awesome.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (G0vdT)

149 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (n7rxJ)

He should have deadpanned and said he identifies as Asian.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (V4IXI)

150 Hey, RMBS. If you have a chance to talk to Mr. Poppins, please tell him that Sarah Hoyt was promoting one of his Theda Bara mysteries on Instapundit. I mentioned it in a post this morning, but I don't think he was here to see it.
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM


He saw that. He was most pleased.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (Wnv9h)

151
If I manage to hit a shot down the middle, that either means it was barely off the ground. A really long putt with a driver basically, or I hit a very good drive down the middle, and the second shot will find some hazard, somewhere, because golf hates me. I continue to play though.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (sAmhv)




There's a reason golf is a 4 letter word.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

152 Tina Peters conviction thrown out!!?
No, remanded for re-sentencing.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:00 PM (XMwZJ)

153 As a Lunatic, I demand reparations for my people's stolen homeland. I will also accept sole rights to any and all Casino gambling on the Moon.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 02, 2026 04:00 PM (w/O5Q)

154 Putting a base on the moon is colonialism? Just wait until we start handing out blankets to the natives.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)

155 He saw that. He was most pleased.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Good. Glad it cheered him up.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 04:01 PM (77rzZ)

156 There's a reason golf is a 4 letter word.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM


Yeah...I'll stick with shooting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 04:01 PM (Wnv9h)

157 >>> Francisco Franco is still dead.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (V4IXI)

Cesar Chavez is still canceled.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 04:01 PM (gWBY1)

158 152 Tina Peters conviction thrown out!!?
No, remanded for re-sentencing.
___

The original 9 years will be reduced to 18 years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (Dv3i1)

159 🌒🚀🧑‍🚀

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (NpAcC)

160
Then they have solved the Artemis Gordonian knot of the malfunctioning Space Loo, yes?


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ARTEMIS GORDON WAS THE JACK OF ALL TRADES PARTNER OF JAMES WEST IN "THE WILD, WILD WEST" AND THE GORDEAN KNOT WAS A TOUGH PROBLEM IN ANTIQUITY THAT ALEXANDER THE GREAT UNDID WITH A SINGLE SWIPE OF HIS SWORD.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (xG4kz)

161

You guys have seen the alternate speech that Nixon had prepped for the event the Apollo astronauts didn't make it back, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (IG3/x)




https://tinyurl.com/3t6peb76

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (IG3/x)

162 heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

She must of broke it breaking it in.
Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:56 PM (G0vdT)

You're shitting me. I said that as a joke last night.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


Every woman I had ever lived with jammed up the toilet and then pretended to have nothing to do with it.

I assume guys jam them up on occasion, but take responsibility to fix it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

163 Moon landings are a proven fact.

There is a whole documentary series chronicling one of the astronauts after his return from orbit, it's quite good. Fascinating, really.

He actually found a genie bottle with a live genie in it shortly after splashdown!

Posted by: Totes Real at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (FvL0s)

164 >>the news focuses on your skin color and genitals.

They're always after me Lucky Charms.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (viF8m)

165 Alternate Headline: President fires empty pantsuit

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)

I haven't really followed her much. With the massive clusterfuck this country has become was she really doing that bad trying to untangle it all, or is it the entrenched ticks in the DOJ screwing it all up, AND did she have the power to clean house and didn't? I'm just curious if she was doing all she could, or not doing enough where it mattered.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (snZF9)

166
Rachel Corrie is still pancaked.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (xG4kz)

167 .
A) What do we need on the Moon?
.
B) The solid rocket boosters spew out atomized oxidized aluminum.

Posted by: Marooned at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (kt8QE)

168 FWP, I was going to fire an employee today that is a relative on my inlaw side, for being an ass to my wife and not doing his job. And then he quit! Literally you can't fire me I already quit!

Saves me paying any severance. But now I have to see how bad the vibes are going to be amongst the family.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (4NO2D)

169 JEWS...IN...SPACE!!!!
--Mel Brooks
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:57 PM (El6/E)

I love that he used the same music for Men In Tights

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (N1DT3)

170 5 That view from the commercial flight is crazy. I wish I could have been there for that.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (N1DT3)

It's really fun to see it from that viewpoint!

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (fNISR)

171 Rachel Corrie is still pancaked.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (xG4kz)



And Michelle Fields is still monoarm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

172 Putting a base on the moon is colonialism? Just wait until we start handing out blankets to the natives.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 04:01 PM (Dv3i1)
******
We were the first indigenous people. It is ours! 🇺🇸

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (NpAcC)

173 The character on WWW was Artemus Gordon.

Artemis was the Greek goddess of the moon, as her brother Apollo was the god of the sun.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (77rzZ)

174 Moon landings are a proven fact.

There is a whole documentary series chronicling one of the astronauts after his return from orbit, it's quite good. Fascinating, really.

He actually found a genie bottle with a live genie in it shortly after splashdown!
Posted by: Totes Real at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (FvL0s)

I don't think that was a moon mission...only one crewman, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (8avO+)

175 Never hire relatives that aren't your children.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (4NO2D)

176 Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (4NO2D)

Or unemployment. He doesn't sound too bright.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (V4IXI)

177
Saves me paying any severance. But now I have to see how bad the vibes are going to be amongst the family.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (4NO2D)



Just bring receipts.

"Here. He left me no choice."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

178 133 Oh, the insanity we're going to see on July 4th this year.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Unfathomable. 'Cause every year between mid-June and including July 4th is already bizarre around Philly.
---
Called the "Block Party Bonanza," the new initiative will bring, what officials called "Life, Liberty, and Happiness celebration kits" to help neighbors present block parties in their communities for America's birthday celebrations.

The kits will be filled with "decorations, games, activities, and supplies to spark celebration and civic pride," officials said. (Plus a $250 gift card!)

"I love this. I don't think there's anything more symbolic of the sense of strength, unity, resilience, pride, and quite frankly, what I often reference as 'Philly swag,'" Parker said during the morning event. "When you come to a Philadelphia block party, no matter where you go, whatever the neighborhood is, their food is cooking, the music that is indigenous to that community is playing and the mayor, because I know how to cut a rug, is dancing wherever I am! And that is the best that Philadelphia has to offer."

When have you ever seen, "... the music that is indigenous to that community."

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (NFX2v)

179 ina Peters conviction thrown out!!?
No, remanded for re-sentencing.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent


Four consecutive life sentences.
No credit for time served.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (/lPRQ)

180 15 That airplane view is really fucking cool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

Like, we're moving horizontally and it's going UP!

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (fNISR)

181 Kinoblade Chronicles X @kinocopter
Elijah Schaffer made his big return to streaming tonight to less than 100 viewers after his wife left him and his affair with Sarah Stock was exposed.
He rented a poverty apartment and hired a bunch of gay twinks to build a new studio out of it and the ROI is coming in nicely!
Apr 2, 2026 · 5:34 AM UTC


... I'm not linking to this shit, but I'll note that Schaffer (who is totes str8 yall) has dyed his hair blond(e).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

182 JEWS...IN...SPACE!!!!
--Mel Brooks
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


May the Schwartz be with you.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (J8NZO)

183 Can we haz a happy fun thread.

Pretty please?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (A5RD0)

184 He doesn't sound too bright.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM


He's the poster child for the Dunning–Kruger effect.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (4NO2D)

185
just congratulate the reporter for being the first mentally retarded beat reporter on the Space program.
Posted by: Oldcat

==============

It might have been the beat reporter on Race. Exactly the type of role that WaPo eliminated in that big wave of layoffs.

"I'm Rahlinda McKee-Evers and I report on the intersection of gender, science, and raciality. Keep up with me to find out how the Artemis mission is pushing two marginalized minorities to the front while quietly building an army of mostly white males."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 04:06 PM (n7rxJ)

186 publius, is that Flat Out Truth account real or a spoof?

Hard to tell.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

187
Can we haz a happy fun thread.

Pretty please?
Posted by: nurse ratched

=============

No! I'm too buzzed on this outrage.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 04:07 PM (n7rxJ)

188 What do we need on the Moon?
.
B) The solid rocket boosters spew out atomized oxidized aluminum.
Posted by: Marooned at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (kt8QE)

Moon Diamonds, to cut out the South African monopoly.

This was a feature in a little known sequel to War of the Worlds where Thomas Edison builds a fleet of space ships to invade Mars and has a stop off on the moon where huge amounts of gems are found. They go to Mars and bust the levees on the canals and drown them all. Good fun.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:07 PM (8avO+)

189 Then they have solved the Artemis Gordonian knot of the malfunctioning Space Loo, yes?
......

NASA told them to keep the lid shut to keep the floaters in.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)

190 Putting a base on the moon is colonialism? Just wait until we start handing out blankets to the natives.

People on X are already pointing out that by the left's rules, the aboriginal peoples of the Moon are Americans. So if anyone does a stolen land declaration about the Moon it must involve our national anthem and eagles and grilling.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 04:08 PM (4XgaH)

191 Saves me paying any severance. But now I have to see how bad the vibes are going to be amongst the family.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:03 PM (4NO2D)

“Y’all, work is work, home is home. Pass the salt?”

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:08 PM (OoFl2)

192 The Moon is supposed to be hollow. Every time a larger meteorite hits it, it rings for days. Ssshhh. Don't let Tucker know.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (abIsI)

193 He didn't like us telling him what to do all the time.

We are his employers. I think it comes with the territory.

SMH

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (4NO2D)

194 I don't think that was a moon mission...only one crewman, right?
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:04 PM (8avO+)


In the original pilot Major Nelson was forced to eat the rest of the flight crew.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

195
"I'm Rahlinda McKee-Evers and I report on the intersection of gender, science, and raciality. Keep up with me to find out how the Artemis mission is pushing two marginalized minorities to the front while quietly building an army of mostly white males."


Do those guys know anything 'bout birfin' babies?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (xG4kz)

196 Every woman I had ever lived with jammed up the toilet and then pretended to have nothing to do with it.

I assume guys jam them up on occasion, but take responsibility to fix it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:02 PM (/lPRQ)

My brother is a contractor. He got called once because a woman with a multi million dollar house had a friend of her's stay over and brought her stupid daughter. The stupid daughter overflows the toilet and it kept running onto the floor in an upstairs bathroom. Doesn't tell anybody, and goes to bed with it still flooding over. I don't even have to finish the story, other than say a ton of nice shit got trashed in the floor below.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (snZF9)

197 publius, is that Flat Out Truth account real or a spoof?

Hard to tell.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

Flat Earthers are hard (impossible?) to parody because they ALREADY believe things that are impossible and don't make sense.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (N1DT3)

198 commander to Koch: What you do!

Koch: Nothing, I stirred the tanks and oh yeah, broke the toilet.

Commander: Houston, we have a #2 problem.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (G0vdT)

199 an we haz a happy fun thread.

Pretty please?
Posted by: nurse ratched

=============

No! I'm too buzzed on this outrage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

====

Yeah, Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)

200 > In the original pilot Major Nelson was forced to eat the rest of the flight crew.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (rbvCR)

In the alternate version, they were killed by talking apes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (IG3/x)

201 47 Saw Cavernous Nostrils open for Pussy Riot at the Getty Center in 2011.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (abIsI)

Why would you do that?

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (fNISR)

202 152 Tina Peters conviction thrown out!!?
No, remanded for re-sentencing.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:00 PM (XMwZJ)
____________________

I thought she got a Clemency Pardon from Trump. Is the Court ignoring that?

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (dIske)

203 "Join the Flat Earth Society. We have members from around the globe!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (IG3/x)

204 I heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

Would you pull over at the next exit? You know I have a bladder the size of a peanut!

Posted by: Every Woman on a Road Trip at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (s2+1z)

205 Yeah, Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM


WHO'S BEEN EATING ASPARIGUS??

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:11 PM (4NO2D)

206 189 Then they have solved the Artemis Gordonian knot of the malfunctioning Space Loo, yes?
......

Yes, and the painting hanging above it is beautiful.
CBD would be proud.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 04:11 PM (Sco7b)

207 NASA told them to keep the lid shut to keep the floaters in.
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:07 PM (UjdFS)
------------

In space, aren't they all floaters?

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 04:11 PM (G0vdT)

208 >> publius, is that Flat Out Truth account real or a spoof?

That loon is a True Believer as far as I can tell. I know you can't believe anybody could believe this stuff when you first see it, and it has to be some sort of parody, mockery or something, but this is real. They really believe this stuff.

There are many other similar accounts (they all sort of parrot each other's stuff all the time).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:11 PM (w6EFb)

209 In case anyone failed to mention this:

Apollo 11's launch drew protestors who said the money could be better spent helping the poor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (v6FCS)

210 Yeah, Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)

In space, no one can hear you drop a Cleveland steamer.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)

211 The Moon is supposed to be hollow. Every time a larger meteorite hits it, it rings for days. Ssshhh. Don't let Tucker know.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (abIsI)

There is a pretty decent SF series where the moon is an ancient battlestation whose crew mutinied and populated Earth. Some of the mutineers still have some old tech in Antarctica base.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (8avO+)

212 204 I heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

Would you pull over at the next exit? You know I have a bladder the size of a peanut!
Posted by: Every Woman on a Road Trip

You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

213 Who ate all the corn rations?!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:13 PM (DgMqy)

214 What do we need on the Moon?
.
B) The solid rocket boosters spew out atomized oxidized aluminum.
Posted by: Marooned


Moon base for jumping off to Mars. Supposedly.

But since we've never went to the moon, we should shut NASA down and just give the money to Minnesota somalians.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:13 PM (J8NZO)

215
What do we need on the Moon?

================

Whatever it is the Chinese want more.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 04:13 PM (n7rxJ)

216 186 publius, is that Flat Out Truth account real or a spoof?

Hard to tell.
Posted by: ace

-------------

Either way, it's glorious.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (MHAh2)

217 I love that kid at the bottom of the hot air link

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (n5tGW)

218 publius, is that Flat Out Truth account real or a spoof?

Hard to tell.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 04:06 PM (1wjle)

Flat Earthers are hard (impossible?) to parody because they ALREADY believe things that are impossible and don't make sense.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (N1DT3)

Not sure how they reconcile that plenty of folks have sailed/flown around the world going in one direction and arrived home.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

219 Would you pull over at the next exit? You know I have a bladder the size of a peanut!

Its not really fair, guys have a whole system of muscle control and longer passage to hold back; we're designed for long distance without interruptions. And signing our name in the snow

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (El6/E)

220
They go to Mars and bust the levees on the canals and drown them all. Good fun.
Posted by: Oldcat


Did Old Tom bring along an elephant to Mars and then electrocute it there with AC current, too? Because that's just how big a dick move that he pulled down here.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (xG4kz)

221 or an attorney sergeant since they get all the actual work done.
Posted by: Oldcat

Heh. Voice of experience, I see

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (q6tQZ)

222 You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

Is the astronaut a mom?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (8avO+)

223 Oldcat

David Weber - Mutineer's Moon

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (v6FCS)

224 Can we haz a happy fun thread.

Pretty please?
Posted by: nurse ratched
......

What could be more happy and fun than explosive diarrhea in space?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (UjdFS)

225 I heard this morning that the female was taking to Houston, trying to move up the time slot for "bio break". She really had to go.

Would you pull over at the next exit? You know I have a bladder the size of a peanut!
Posted by: Every Woman on a Road Trip at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (s2+1z)

Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.

One reason is that the female body doesn't handle being dirty as well as the male body. (Private parts being interior rather than exterior makes cleanliness both more important and more difficult to do.) Also a reason women shouldn't be in the military.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (N1DT3)

226 You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊

Posted by: Piper


I don't know nuttin' 'bout birthin' no babies!

Posted by: Butterfly Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (Riz8t)

227 or an attorney sergeant since they get all the actual work done.
Posted by: Oldcat

Heh. Voice of experience, I see
Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM (q6tQZ)

no stolen valor, but I have good sources.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (8avO+)

228 Guys are mostly watertight.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (4NO2D)

229 Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.

definitely prison rules in the space toilet. Everyone sits down for everything, wipe up afterward and make sure its all clean. Can't use the "only crap in the shower room toilets" rule though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (El6/E)

230 Hey , all you wannabee Moon occupiers : the Sierra Club, Moon Chapter , would like to have word with you. …..

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (cAnXG)

231 the only things you're superior to are jack and squat and Jack left town and Squat died five years ago "with" covid.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

But Ace, last week you said Squat went to go live on a farm down the road, and is living his best life.

*Cries*

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (+DSUk)

232
Why are we taking an iceback along on this trip?

If that person wanted to go, they could simply have squeezed into one of the cargo bays or wheel wells.

Know your place!

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (xG4kz)

233 Not sure how they reconcile that plenty of folks have sailed/flown around the world going in one direction and arrived home.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

"It's like flying around the outside of a pizza."

No, really.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (N1DT3)

234 >> Not sure how they reconcile that plenty of folks have sailed/flown around the world going in one direction and arrived home.

They believe the earth is a circular disc enclosed by "the firmament". Antarctica is big "Ice Wall" surrounding the disc. Their map of earth is this azimuthal equidistant projection that centers on the north pole and maps the south pole to a big circle.

They claim that is the real shape of the earth. A pie surrounded by an Ice Wall enclosed by a big old firmament dome.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (w6EFb)

235 101 > IT's "density", you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

Density of the type found in their skulls.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (IG3/x)

; )

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (fNISR)

236 When will Elon Musk build a house on the Moon?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (v6FCS)

237 Wait until the astronauts find Bigfoot foot prints on the moon!
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (isQma)

For future landings on the moon, that would be a great April Fool's joke.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (g8Ew8)

238 222 You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

Is the astronaut a mom?
Posted by: Oldcat


On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

239 Who ate all the corn rations?!

The poor cook. He caught the fits. And threw away all my grits
And then he took, and he ate up all of my corn.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

240
the female body doesn't handle being dirty as well as the male body. (Private parts being interior rather than exterior makes cleanliness both more important and more difficult to do.) Also a reason women shouldn't be in the military.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

===============

You got any data for that? Because interior female private parts are self-cleansing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (n7rxJ)

241 My pin code is 6969.

Dr.Jill have it to me. Mom! I went boom boom on the rug again.

23 skiddoo!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Astronaut in his own mind at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (5itIU)

242 The simplest proof against flat earth that normies can understand is flight times. Take a flat earth map and measure how far it is from Australia to England or Hawaii to Boston and check how long the airlines advertise the flight is.

With a round earth, the plane flies a reasonable 450mph or so. With a flat earth, suddenly they have to fly a LOT faster to make the distance in time. Flat earthers have no reasonable answer for it.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (mkw2N)

243 Just saw a Rubio as the AG meme...that makes the happy brain chemicals release.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (M7rua)

244 Tina Peters conviction thrown out!!?
No, remanded for re-sentencing.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 04:00 PM (XMwZJ)
____________________

I thought she got a Clemency Pardon from Trump. Is the Court ignoring that?
Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 04:10 PM (dIske)

***

Trump's pardon was symbolic. She was convicted in State court on State charges. Don't be shocked if they stick her back in back in prison. The dems on Colorado make any mafia family look like wimps.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2WIwB)

245 I've never seen a flat-earthers 3-D model of erf.

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 04:19 PM (q6tQZ)

246 On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

And provide a manager to speak to.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:19 PM (dK+Kv)

247
Also kept talking about his cool mysterious girlfriend but I never got to meet her.

Posted by: Pam Bondi at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)



She lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 04:19 PM (y9nCu)

248 IT's "density", you see.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w6EFb)

Density of the type found in their skulls.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 03:53 PM (IG3/x)

"I am your density!"
-- George McFly

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 04:19 PM (77rzZ)

249 Genius squawking about the tablet PIN, go get the tablet.

You can't, can you? Then shut up you Space Ball.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (v6FCS)

250 Not sure how they reconcile that plenty of folks have sailed/flown around the world going in one direction and arrived home.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (8avO+)

"It's like flying around the outside of a pizza."

No, really.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 04:17 PM (N1DT3)

Does the compass read "East" the whole way around a pizza?

There are plenty of simple ways to demonstrate a round earth known in ancient times.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (8avO+)

251 222 You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

Is the astronaut a mom?
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:15 PM

I don’t know, it was more the road trip comment.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (p4NUW)

252 Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.

But they'll have to be anyway, if we want permanent offworld colonies. Unless your plan is for the moon to be a gay spa for rich San Franciscans

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (gKWVE)

253 People always praise old 'Star Trek' for being inclusive and blacks could finally see themselves in a good light.

HOWEVER, perhaps having the Klingons and even the Romulans being a little, swarthy, subconsciously broke their brain.

Man, I have to lay off MS Now....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (Sco7b)

254 I haven't really followed her much. With the massive clusterfuck this country has become was she really doing that bad trying to untangle it all, or is it the entrenched ticks in the DOJ screwing it all up, AND did she have the power to clean house and didn't? I'm just curious if she was doing all she could, or not doing enough where it mattered.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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The timing comes down to apparently Bondi gave a heads up to Swallwell about the pending FBI release of their investigation of him and Fang Fang so he can contest it. And this is allegedly.

My guess is that post Iran, Trump wants a new team in place before heading into the midterms and AFAIK, Zeldin or perhaps Pirro may get the tap.

Sort of like Walz and Signalgate, Trump engineered a soft landing apparently for Bondi in the private sector.

And fwiw, the average tenure in a Cabinet office is less than 2 years (something like 18 months or so).

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (E4rtv)

255 I am convinced that 99% of "Flat Earthers" are just trolling

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (El6/E)

256 Because interior female private parts are self-cleansing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (n7rxJ)

A strong wind proves . . . that is a lie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:21 PM (dK+Kv)

257 On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

And provide a manager to speak to.


Parallel parking is right out!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:21 PM (Riz8t)

258 ...quietly building an army of mostly white males."
___

You know who else did this?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (Dv3i1)

259 Eyes full of sorrow
Never wet
Hands full of money
All in debt
Sun coming out in
The middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon

Posted by: Jonathan King at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (5itIU)

260 222 You birth babies and get back to me on the state of your insides. 😊
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 04:12 PM (OoFl2)

Is the astronaut a mom?
Posted by: Oldcat

On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

I'd give Piper a pass for her service but I also had three sisters that at the time had no excuse for making us pull over on vacations.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (8avO+)

261 The poor cook. He caught the fits. And threw away all my grits
And then he took, and he ate up all of my corn.
--------------
Sloop John B?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (n17eQ)

262 This is about making launch newsworthy. Common folk don't care about space travel.anymore.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (wBaIH)

263
Also of some amusement was the Flat Earth "Final Experiment". Somebody offered to fly some of these guys to Antarctica to see the 24 hour sun. They had agreed that would be impossible on their flat earth disc map.

Some chickened out, but some did go. They got down there (after all this crazy DIY compass and bearing stuff to prove to themselves they were really going South), and lo and behold saw the midnight sun in Antarctica.

Some of them admitted, well hell, it's true. The other flat earther's immediately accused them of being part of the conspiracy, of selling out to Satan.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (w6EFb)

264 Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.
.......

It was Captain Splatter.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (UjdFS)

265 Sloop John B?

Indeed.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (Riz8t)

266 Sloop John B?

Kingston Trio or Beach Boyz?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (DgMqy)

267 Sloop John B?
Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM


The Good Ship Venus.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (4NO2D)

268 Trump's pardon was symbolic.

Trump has done some very odd pardons, I have no idea what the purpose or intent of them are. Some of them look very quid quo pro-y to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (El6/E)

269 257 On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

And provide a manager to speak to.

Parallel parking is right out!
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:21 PM (Riz8t)
---------



and God forbid it involves a TV remote and streaming services.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (G0vdT)

270 People always praise old 'Star Trek' for being inclusive and blacks could finally see themselves in a good light.

HOWEVER, perhaps having the Klingons and even the Romulans being a little, swarthy, subconsciously broke their brain.

Man, I have to lay off MS Now....
Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (Sco7b)

In the old series the Klingons weren't that dark, and the Romulans looked like Vulcans.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM (8avO+)

271
Invading the moon is just going to provoke the aliens to attack Earth. The results will be horrific.

https://tinyurl.com/fkzvsbuf

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 04:24 PM (y9nCu)

272 Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.

What're you talking about? Who am I gonna bang otherwise, on those long interstellar stretches between green Yvonne Crains?
-- James T. Kirk

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

273 In the old series the Klingons weren't that dark, and the Romulans looked like Vulcans.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM


Wasn't the first Romulan we see the same actor as Spock's dad?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:24 PM (4NO2D)

274 and God forbid it involves a TV remote and streaming services.

Wait til they start the fight over who controls the thermostat in the starship cabin

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:24 PM (El6/E)

275 NASA will have to design in baby changing stations

I'm thinking this is some decades in the future, when babies born on Luna have to be shipped back to Earth. Babies are unlikely to be shipped to Luna for a host of ethical reasons.

Posted by: 1/6 earth gravity at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (gKWVE)

276 Sloop John B?

Kingston Trio or Beach Boyz?


Beach Boys for sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (Riz8t)

277 Trump's pardon was symbolic. She was convicted in State court on State charges. Don't be shocked if they stick her back in back in prison. The dems on Colorado make any mafia family look like wimps.
Posted by: Diogenes

Trump's pardon is another one challenging recent practice like the reading of the 14th allowing anchor babies. Apparently the early belief was that the President's pardons DID actually cover all criminal prosecutions whether state or federal.

And it makes a sort of sense. Kings had absolute pardon power as it was simply a circuit breaker to prevent injustice.

One cannot become a tyrant by pardoning people in a world of negative liberties. Only by putting them in prison unjustly.

The risk is that a Dem in office would simply pardon all of their criminal supporters simply to get votes.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (E4rtv)

278 266 Sloop John B?

Kingston Trio or Beach Boyz?
--------
Beach Boyz.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (n17eQ)

279 What I don't get about flat Earthers is what the hell so wrong with spheres?

Why is that shape so taboo?

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (aTgV0)

280 In the old series the Klingons weren't that dark, and the Romulans looked like Vulcans.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:23 PM

Wasn't the first Romulan we see the same actor as Spock's dad?
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:24 PM (4NO2D)

i believe so.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

281 I am convinced that 99% of "Flat Earthers" are just trolling
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (El6/E)


There was some talk that it started as a basis of examining everything technical, that people had to rely on experts by third hand reports, to try to find better answers, and of course it got filled in with people who just didn't trust any expert or authority, and decided to go full retard.

I have no idea how that opinion got into the zeitgeist

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (rbvCR)

282 Beach Boys for sure.

I might have to agree with you there. Although I do like TKT's work a lot.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:26 PM (DgMqy)

283 (insert "whitey on the moon" poem here)

Posted by: connected and litigious at April 02, 2026 04:26 PM (cS1cw)

284
Artemis tracker from NASA:
https://is.gd/2AtdaL

That loaded slow for me, may be a lot of people using it, but it worked fine last night. It will take some playing to get the hang of it, but you can see the geometry of the orbit relative to the Earth-Moon system.

TLI burn will be sometime around 8PM EDT. That will occur, as you can see on that map, at perigee, which is aligned just opposite the Moon with the earth in between.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:26 PM (w6EFb)

285 I have no idea how that opinion got into the zeitgeist

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (rbvCR)

4-Chan

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (dK+Kv)

286 Mark Lenard. Yeah.

Damn that was a great episode.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (Sco7b)

287 What I don't get about flat Earthers is what the hell so wrong with spheres?

Why is that shape so taboo?
Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (aTgV0)

All the normies think it is a sphere.

In High School one of the science rooms had a poster with Earths of different shapes including one that looked like clay with random finger dents and bulges. Always liked that one.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (8avO+)

288 The risk is that a Dem in office would simply pardon all of their criminal supporters simply to get votes.

Well, and the president is a federal office, and letting the president rule on state issues violates the concept of the states being distinct from the federal government etc. Not that there's much left of that but the principle is valid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (El6/E)

289 Open the bathroom door, HAL.


HAL....open the bathroom door.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (aTgV0)

290 Women shouldn't be on long space voyages.
.......

Who's gonna make the sammiches?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

291 257 On longer missions NASA will have to design in baby changing stations.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (abIsI)

And provide a manager to speak to.

Parallel parking is right out!
Posted by: Archimedes


Forget about closing space doors after passing through

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (abIsI)

292 Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (aTgV0)

The Hebrew Bible and the Gospels assume a flat earth, and the flat earth was taught by a number of Greek and Syrian Church Fathers.
Paul himself believed in a spherical earth with celestial spheres above us.
Augustine, to his credit, said that cosmological speculation was retarded and stood to make Christians look bad should any of their comments prove, in fact, to be retarded.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (gKWVE)

293 Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.



All right, somebody fess up.

Who was William Shat-n-'ere?

Posted by: The One Who Smelt It at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (FvL0s)

294 You know who else did this?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 04:22 PM (Dv3i1)


Cromwell, the bastard. Oh, and Gustavus Adolphus.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (rbvCR)

295 The simplest proof against flat earth that normies can understand is



darkness. If the earf is flat, it should be light everywhere at the same time.

Conversely, at night, it should be dark everywhere at the same time.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:29 PM (J8NZO)

296 Open the bathroom door, HAL.

HAL....open the bathroom door.
Posted by: eleven
......

Sorry Dave I can't do that. You didn't light a match.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 04:29 PM (UjdFS)

297
31 Imagine working hard your whole life, studying taking care of your body, learning the science, and getting selected for the astronaut program. Then, imagine doing your best and finally getting into a rocket, walking the gantry and stepping into the capsule, you're going to the moon, one of a tiny number of humanity that has ever done so.

Then imagine that instead of praising you and talking about your skills, considering you an Astronaut, the news focuses on your skin color and genitals.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:45 PM

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It's like the science director of the first ever mission to land a probe on a comet. At the moment of triumph, he was publicly tormented and humiliated by mutants over a custom "Charlie's Angels" themed shirt he was wearing. The outrage was fake, contrived, and utterly unwarranted, but his craven management required him to make a public apology. Instead of answering questions about the mission, he had a public struggle session about a god damn shirt.

Or the attempt to take the name of James Webb off the revolutionary space telescope recently put into position, over fake accusations of his supposed racism. They failed.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (EKHDg)

298 The Hebrew Bible and the Gospels assume a flat earth

There are multiple passages that refer to the earth as a sphere, and describe it as round. How much the people understood about this is uncertain, but the Bible does not definitively describe the earth as flat. IT contains poetic passages that talk about the "four corners" of the earth etc, but that's like saying "sunrise" even though we know the earth spins and the sun is static relative to earth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (El6/E)

299 It's Turtles, all the way down.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (4NO2D)

300 293 Why can't the person who jammed up the space toilet fess up. They all know did it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 02, 2026 04:09 PM (/lPRQ)

Who was William Shat-n-'ere?
Posted by: The One Who Smelt It at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (FvL0s)

haha!!

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (fNISR)

301 Conversely, at night, it should be dark everywhere at the same time.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 04:29 PM (J8NZO)

You've made the mistake of giving it any serious consideration.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (dK+Kv)

302 Flat Earthers have to be crapping themselves too. Can't have images from space showing a round Earth...
Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (sgrzZ)

We have some flat earthers at our church. They are rather... odd. I was more shocked that there are real people who believe the earth is flat, rather than who believed it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:44 PM (N1DT3)


Even the ancient Greeks knew that the Earth was curved along the North-South axis. They were less certain about the East-West axis. Apparently, they envisioned Earth as a big cylinder. But that actually makes sense, given the constraints of their known world.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (ksbjf)

303 >> If the earf is flat, it should be light everywhere at the same time.

If interested, read how they "explain" this. The Sun (and Moon) are small and local...... Note this geometry doesn't work out like they think, but math and physics, well, they don't believe in it. It's all fake and gay.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:31 PM (w6EFb)

304 Wait until the astronauts find Bigfoot foot prints on the moon!
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (isQma)

For future landings on the moon, that would be a great April Fool's joke.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (g8Ew


If I were headed for the moon, I'd be wearing a Buc-Ees tee shirt.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 04:31 PM (2WIwB)

305 I am convinced that 99% of "Flat Earthers" are just trolling
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:20 PM (El6/E)

There was some talk that it started as a basis of examining everything technical, that people had to rely on experts by third hand reports, to try to find better answers, and of course it got filled in with people who just didn't trust any expert or authority, and decided to go full retard.

I have no idea how that opinion got into the zeitgeist
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:25 PM (rbvCR)

Sounds like nonsense. The Mercator map, for example unrolls a sphere onto a cylinder. Its advantage is that if you sail a ship using the bearing gotten by drawing a line on the Mercator map, you actually get there on the real sea. If the Earth was not a globe, this would not work.

The fact that different stars show as you move N or S also is hard to explain if the earth is flat.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:31 PM (8avO+)

306 4-Chan
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (dK+Kv)


well, I've been lied to by authority since grade-school, and that predates the internet. Then I got a job where everyone lied to me, from customer to supervisors, including randos on the street, so I feel a bit for 4-Channers

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:31 PM (rbvCR)

307 The poor cook. He caught the fits. And threw away all my grits
And then he took, and he ate up all of my corn.
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What should we do with the drunken sailor?
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God damn them all, I was told
We'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's privateers -- Stan Roger

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:32 PM (XeU6L)

308 The fact that different stars show as you move N or S also is hard to explain if the earth is flat.

Sailors have forever known that the earth is curved at least. Things that get far away on a calm sea disappear bottom first. You could see the tops of masts before the rest of the ship as you neared it, lots of stuff like that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (El6/E)

309 Will there be a first female to set foot on the Moon?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (abIsI)

310 Well, and the president is a federal office, and letting the president rule on state issues violates the concept of the states being distinct from the federal government etc. Not that there's much left of that but the principle is valid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not necessarily so. States themselves are limited by their own state constitutions and not following those in mostly blue states is debatable whether those states are actually fulfilling the Bill of Rights. Notice that even the Colorado appellate court threw back sentencing based on Colorado's violation of federal free speech rights.

The normal resort is to the federal courts via a habeas act but that is very difficult until appeals go all the way up to final resolution in the state court system.

There is an old maxim in law--every right must have a remedy and a right with no remedy (redressibility) is not a right at all.

A presidential pardon is simply another remedy for a rights violation. FWIW, you might want to read Madison's Federalist 46 regarding state versus federal relations. Inevitably, he holds that the PEOPLE of the US, not the states, determine who is to be superior in disputes.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (E4rtv)

311 In the old series the Klingons weren't that dark, and the Romulans looked like Vulcans.
Posted by: Oldcat

Whereas the male Klingons in 'DEI Trek' have two dicks. The Paolo hardest hit.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (+DSUk)

312 Even the ancient Greeks knew that the Earth was curved along the North-South axis. They were less certain about the East-West axis. Apparently, they envisioned Earth as a big cylinder. But that actually makes sense, given the constraints of their known world.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at April 02, 2026 04:30 PM (ksbjf)

I think the Greeks could demonstrate sphericity due to the same visual effect of a ship sailing to the horizon disappearing from bottom up works the same in any direction. I don't recall if one wrote that up explicitly

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (8avO+)

313 And the horizon is always far away.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (DgMqy)

314
Flat earth was sort of a small group of cranks (The Flat Earth Society, which exists).

There was some sort of resurgence of it online with the Internet starting around 10 years ago or so. As was mentioned above there is speculation that it was born out of "They're lying about everything, even the most basic stuff".

A conspiracy mind so open their brain falls out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (w6EFb)

315 >>>>>Beach Boys for sure.
*******
Dwight Yoakam did a good cover.

Posted by: Cosda at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (IH6tF)

316 The Earth is flat...

...on all six sides.

https://bit.ly/bizarro-world

Posted by: mindful webworker - me am earthlinge at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (ByrUz)

317 The left hates anything that’s good and decent. They are at their core ugly, sad pathetic people.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (nLVHX)

318 Whereas the male Klingons in 'DEI Trek' have two dicks. The Paolo hardest hit.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (+DSUk)
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Pffft. We have SIX!

Posted by: Centauri from Babylon 5 at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (ESVrU)

319 And the horizon is always far away.
Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM


You can literally never get there.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

320 > What should we do with the drunken sailor?

Hit him on the head and take his mon-ey.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (mkw2N)

321 Name something that has only one side.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

322 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
The weekend is here

And I missed the Bondi thread

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (Ia/+0)

323 Sloop John B?

Kingston Trio or Beach Boyz?
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Beach Boyz.

Let's dive into the deep end...

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
https://youtu.be/DowyUgDMWGs

The Dicey Doh Singers
https://youtu.be/ISMxBBSugPE

Johnny Cash
https://youtu.be/XB09cky5Cek

Jerry Jeff Walker
https://youtu.be/hMQkO6l7QN0

Barry McGuire
https://youtu.be/-46Zesj4IXw

Fisherman's Friends
https://youtu.be/Gwd1R5i49xY

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (glnUu)

324 The flat earth stuff was always tongue in cheek. Nobody really believes it. But it’s fun to make people think you believe it.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (nLVHX)

325 Wait until the astronauts find Bigfoot foot prints on the moon!
Posted by: Sasquatch
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I believe that Wallace and Gromit found a gas range.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (XeU6L)

326 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

My wife’s opinion when arguing.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (nLVHX)

327 The Earth is flat...


Bullshit!
If it were flat I would not have had to walk to school uphill, both way, in three feet of snow.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (2WIwB)

328 The left hates anything that’s good and decent. They are at their core ugly, sad pathetic people.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (nLVHX)

yeah, thats about it. They're just miserable pricks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (snZF9)

329 322 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
The weekend is here

And I missed the Bondi thread
Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (Ia/+0)

There'll be more!

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (fNISR)

330 Let's dive into the deep end...

I suspected this would happen...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (DgMqy)

331
Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)



Moebius strip

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (y9nCu)

332 I wonder if one turns to the other and says, "Holy crap, can you believe where we are?"

Posted by: InZona at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (peFv8)

333 It is nonsense, but it is a question of larger things. What is history and what is propaganda? What is physics and what is a useful guess? What is reality, and what is hidden from us, it goes on from there.
Epistemology is a highbrow study, but lots of people who have little training in logic also want to know how we know what we know is valid.
Flat earthers are loons who get stuck on stupid, but that desire for truth is there, aching for resolution. It is also the basis for gnosticism, which is poison because it promises that reality is false and the hidden knowledge is available for good boys a girls.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (rbvCR)

334 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928
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A plane.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (XeU6L)

335 I should have said 'that occurs in nature'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (4NO2D)

336 I am interested in hearing about pre-Hellenistic passages in the Hebrew Bible which discuss Earth as a sphere rather than as a round table.
I've allowed Paul (who had a Greek education) as assuming the Greek cosmology of nested celestial spheres over Earth.
Enoch is known as a Hellenistic-era composition but of course only Ethiopians and Saint Jude allow that one.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (gKWVE)

337
If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off its edge by now.

Case closed.

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (xG4kz)

338 The Hebrew Bible and the Gospels assume a flat earth, and the flat earth was taught by a number of Greek and Syrian Church Fathers.
Paul himself believed in a spherical earth with celestial spheres above us.
Augustine, to his credit, said that cosmological speculation was retarded and stood to make Christians look bad should any of their comments prove, in fact, to be retarded.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:28 PM (gKWVE)



No, this is incorrect. A lot got lost in poor translation.

Isiah 40:22

“He sits enthroned above the sphere of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to live in."

Posted by: runner, austere religious scholar at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (GD0B3)

339 A conspiracy mind so open their brain falls out.
Posted by: publius
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Flat Earthers I put in the same category of environmentalists or Marxists. None are scientific in methodology and they rely on pseudo scientific twaddle to make their points. Loved by Mid Wits.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

340 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

Pastrami on rye with a pickle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (dK+Kv)

341 They're just miserable pricks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 04:36 PM (snZF9)


The pinch-faced scolds of our world.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (n9ltV)

342 Denigrate

That's racist

Posted by: jugear fukstik at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (Kt19C)

343 I beg your pardon , Isaiah.

Posted by: runner, austere religious scholar at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (GD0B3)

344 I was informed by Berke Breathed that the earth was shaped like a burrito.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (PSEDc)

345 Whereas the male Klingons in 'DEI Trek' have two dicks. The Paolo hardest hit.

Kurtzman Trek invention. Recently expanded to say they have 4 nads as well. We will know that the world is healing when Paramount officialy announces that all Kurtzman Trek including the JJ Abrams movies were just a fever dream and are not part of canon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:38 PM (El6/E)

346 I thought the Greeks figured out the erf was round thousands of years ago.

Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (nLVHX)

347 321 Name something that has only one side.


......


A woman's perception of things.

Posted by: Been There at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (FvL0s)

348 Saarite.

Posted by: Isaiah at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (4NO2D)

349 321 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

one-sided
adjective
...

• having or occurring on one side of something only: printing one-sided documents.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (fNISR)

350 "Name something that has only one side."

MSNow

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (UoFpr)

351
Help a moron out here -- who is "Cavernous Nostrils" a reference to in the first line?

Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (xG4kz)

352 A rainbow.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (4NO2D)

353 The haterz get ALL the clicks.

Most of us are stoked to do the space ship thing again!

Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (q177U)

354 Flat earth was sort of a small group of cranks (The Flat Earth Society, which exists).

There was some sort of resurgence of it online with the Internet starting around 10 years ago or so. As was mentioned above there is speculation that it was born out of "They're lying about everything, even the most basic stuff".

A conspiracy mind so open their brain falls out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:34 PM (w6EFb)

I read the original Hollow Earth Theory book (not sure if I own it) but I remember it saying early on: "Scientists say that the earth weighs 6x10^24 kg. This is much too large" .. well OK then.

The real issue for the world inside the hollow earth would be that gravity inside the shell would be virtually 0, it all cancels out

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (8avO+)

355 And I missed the Bondi thread

Here's something additional: the rumor going around is that Bondi tipped Swalwell off that the FBI was interested in releasing the info on him and Fang Fang. No cue if its accurate or not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (El6/E)

356 346 I thought the Greeks figured out the erf was round thousands of years ago.
Posted by: Heroq

They did but given history is often more filled by gaps, I suspect other civilizations came to the same conclusions. That is the value of true science, its findings are verifiable by repeated observations, cultures, and civilizations.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (E4rtv)

357 Help a moron out here -- who is "Cavernous Nostrils" a reference to in the first line?
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (xG4kz)

Candice Owens

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (8avO+)

358 nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (dK+Kv)

359 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

A flounder?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 02, 2026 04:40 PM (hUFDe)

360 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c)

Moebius strip
Posted by: IllTemperedCur


and a Klein Bottle, and whatever the higher-order versions of that concept are called.

You can make a Klein Bottle by attaching two Moebius Strips edge-to-edge. But only if you live in four-dimensional space.

Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (VHUov)

361 nood



deniro

Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

362
Erastothenes was the Ancient Greek Homo who famously estimated the radius of the earth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (w6EFb)

363 Flat earth concept is medieval. Because they burned all the books and only drunken monks were allowed to read. Ancient societies, especially mariners, had an idea that our earth is a sphere. The Greeks and Romans , of course. Probably Chinese, Indians as well.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (GD0B3)

364 >>>And I missed the Bondi thread

There will be another one along soon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (dK+Kv)

365 "Name something that has only one side."

MSNow
Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (UoFpr)

A Mobius Strip.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (8avO+)

366 340 Name something that has only one side.
Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:35 PM (4NO2D)

Pastrami on rye with a pickle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (dK+Kv)

With a pickle on "the side"?

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (fNISR)

367 Flat Earthers I put in the same category of environmentalists or Marxists. None are scientific in methodology and they rely on pseudo scientific twaddle to make their points. Loved by Mid Wits.
Posted by: whig

Another way to say is this is they be makin' stuff up as they go. Plus, you pretty much described the New Mexico state government.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (glnUu)

368 I thought the Greeks figured out the erf was round thousands of years ago.
Posted by: Heroq at April 02, 2026 04:39 PM (nLVHX)

They did...Ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes proved the world was round and calculated its circumference (c. 240 BCE) using shadows cast by the sun. By measuring the angle of a shadow in Alexandria while knowing the sun was directly overhead at noon in Syene (where no shadow was cast), he calculated the Earth's curvature

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (2WIwB)

369 How many flat earthers are secretly full time trolls?

Posted by: Max Power at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (q177U)

370 361 nood
deniro
Posted by: banana Dream - Space Plumber in training at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (3uBP9)

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 04:43 PM (fNISR)

371 Isiah 40:22 -
Here חוּג is translated "circle" not "sphere". Poor argument! Sorry runner.
Better argument for you: שָׁמַיִם. Even I know that is plural "heavens" and my Hebrew is for shit.
Multiple heavens == celestial spheres. Score one!
Now, Isaiah 40 is Second Isaiah, who preached Cyrus' gospel to the returning Jews, which means this Isaiah got that lore from the Babylonians. They might have sussed out the round earth before the Greeks...

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (gKWVE)

372 The real issue for the world inside the hollow earth would be that gravity inside the shell would be virtually 0, it all cancels out
Posted by: Oldcat


If the walking surface of the inside of hollow earth were on the underside of the outer surface, one would think that centrifugal forces would keep critters' feet on the ground.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (a+4eV)

373 and a Klein Bottle, and whatever the higher-order versions of that concept are called.

You can make a Klein Bottle by attaching two Moebius Strips edge-to-edge. But only if you live in four-dimensional space.
Posted by: mikeski at April 02, 2026 04:41 PM (VHUov)

Read an SF story about a world where peeps lived at the base of a huge wall. One guy built a way to climb it, found out that the space there had the properties of a Moebius strip and he walked in one direction and got back to his starting point.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (8avO+)

374 If the walking surface of the inside of hollow earth were on the underside of the outer surface, one would think that centrifugal forces would keep critters' feet on the ground.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (a+4eV)

True

Not so much at the poles, although that is were the entry holes are.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:47 PM (8avO+)

375 Now, Isaiah 40 is Second Isaiah, who preached Cyrus' gospel to the returning Jews, which means this Isaiah got that lore from the Babylonians. They might have sussed out the round earth before the Greeks...
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 04:44 PM (gKWVE)

Probably, since Astrology watches the stars carefully and the differing height of stars by N or S distance in the sky would be apparent pretty quickly.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (8avO+)

376

'Flatland', the book.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 04:49 PM (XeU6L)

377 > Flat Earthers I put in the same category of environmentalists or Marxists.
Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 04:37 PM (E4rtv)

In their defense, the Flat Earthers generally don't kill millions of people, unlike environmentalists and Marxists.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (IG3/x)

378 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at April 02, 2026 04:52 PM (vTZFs)

379 Pilot - flies the spaceship.

Commander - orders the pilot where to fly. Back up to pilot.

Mission specialist 1 - prepares the cocktails and passes out peanuts and instructs the flight crew on safety.

Mission specialist II - loads and unloads the luggage.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:05 PM (D7v4F)

380 Anti-Trump judge orders spaceship Artemis to return to the launchpad.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2026 05:14 PM (KtOUo)

381 The libs are knocking down on Trump's warrior women
Leavitt will be next

I was reminded of the difference between the Trump bimbos and Big Sis and Janet Reno and Bondi who chose not to prosecute Epstein in FL
Brains v Beauty

Posted by: Paul at April 02, 2026 08:01 PM (VAoZ8)

382 Sorry, if you think space xis really important you really are a fag.

Posted by: Bob at April 02, 2026 09:43 PM (0UpBL)

As Part of JD Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force, Feds Raid Fake Hospice Fraudsters In California


The Patriot Oasis

@ThePatriotOasis

🚨BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says his Fraud Task Force is NOT wasting time after the California raid this morning.

VANCE: "Our task force isn't wasting any time cracking down on fraud."

"This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems."

Remember earlier stories about, what, 89 "hospice care" "businesses" operating in a ten square block area of LA?

Hospice care is care for the terminally ill. It can be expensive, but the care is brief: Most people who enter hospice care die within two or three weeks.

That's not the case in the Hospice Care Businesses being raided. Astonishingly, after eight months of care for the terminally ill, these Modern Miracle Factories have achieved a ninety-seven plus percent survival rate. And I'm not making that number up, that's from the Fox video report below the fold.

Even though these Resurrection Mills are bringing the dead back to life, the anti-science thug JD Vance wants to arrest them instead of giving them all Congressional Medals of Super-Science!

NYP:

The home of a husband and wife who own a Southern California hospice accused of committing $7 million in fraud was raided by FBI agents in conjunction with Health and Human Services early Thursday morning.

The raid is one of several that took place as part of a massive federal effort to address widespread fraud in the state in coordination with Vice President JD Vance's Fraud Taskforce -- and the California Post was there.

In dramatic fashion, the couple, Amelou Gill and Gladwin Gill, who operate St. Francis Palliative Care in Anaheim, were arrested at their home by an FBI SWAT team as authorities sawed through the metal front gates of their property and called with loudspeakers for them to come out.

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, was on the scene as well and said the couple created a hospice in their daughter's name and bilked millions of dollars from taxpayers.

"Since 2022, there have been allegations, but for four years, what seems to be typical in California, nothing was done," he said.

Their hospice had a mortality rate of just 2.3% over the last five years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Dr. Oz told the California Post that CMS has suspended "hundreds" of hospice licenses in California.

"In 10 weeks we're getting close to what Governor Newsom did in four years," he said.

...

Dr. Fariba Javaherian is a registered dermatologist, but according to CMS billing data obtained by The Post, she is associated with 63 hospice facilities across California either as a medical director, attending physician or in some other capacity.

Apparently there are millions of terminally ill patients dying of Problem Acne.


The National Provider Identifier (NPI) registered with Dr. Javaherian, a unique 10-digit number given to individual health care providers, was used for 1,662 unique patients across the 63 hospice agencies and appeared on more than 6,000 claims that billed $35,816,331.


Following The Post's investigation, CMS revoked Javaherian's license to bill Medicare and suspended the license of at least 16 hospice agencies associated with the dermatologist.

"Dr. Javaherian's white coat was a costume," CMS Administrator Dr. Oz said. Javaherian is not accused of any wrongdoing.

Remember, the very very smart Smarties of the Left insisted that JD Vance's posting as anti-fraud task force commissioner was some kind of political setback, because it's a big waste of time because Fraud Is Fake. The Science (TM) says so.

While the reality is 100% the opposite. I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer, but conservative voters are keen to finally have fraud investigated and punished after seventy years of politicians promising that to us, and they will reward Vance for doing the job that until now American politicians just wouldn't do.

And there is billions more in fraud to be discovered in Gruesome Newsom's California shithole alone:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:27 PM




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1 MOAR

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (N1DT3)

2 In the race to FIRST, The Blade is FIRST

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

3 BONDI ISN'T DOING ANYTHING!!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (FmapG)

4 ... or SECOND

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (iFTx/)

5 Anyone want to bet me on that majority of these being run by immigrants?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (N1DT3)

6 (Legal... even if questionably... and illegal, of course.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (N1DT3)

7 STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (Kt19C)

8 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at April 02, 2026 02:29 PM (2Ez/1)

9 Bondi is out.

Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

10 On my prediction that our fraudsters are mostly immigrants:

This is what happens when you import a large number of people who are not part of your culture and have no desire to be a part of it.

A significant portion of them will see the native populace as enemies or at least "the other" to be fleeced. There's no desire to play by the rules.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (N1DT3)

11 Javaherian is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Like heck he isn't. He might not be legally charged with anything, yet, but I'm sure as shootin' accusing him of wrongdoing.

Posted by: GWB at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (10ipE)

12 Bondi is out.
Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

WHAT!? Where did you hear that!? I haven't seen anything about that on this very website an hour ago!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (N1DT3)

13 >>>That's not the case in the Hospice Care Businesses being raided. Astonishingly, after eight months of care for the terminally ill, these Modern Miracle Factories have achieved a ninety-seven percent survival rate.

They got better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 02:32 PM (dK+Kv)

14 Epoch times breaking a minute ago.

Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:32 PM (AfigF)

15 Bondi is out.
Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

WHAT!? Where did you hear that!? I haven't seen anything about that on this very website an hour ago!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (N1DT3)

NO WAY!

😂

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (GD0B3)

16 Bondi is out.
Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

He took it out?

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (5itIU)

17 This is exactly why we can't have an effective AG.

There are far too many politicians involved in this graft to ever allow it go away.

Those politicians further down the chain donate to those higher up the chain so that the gravy train can continue for all involved.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (ESVrU)

18 no, no , I need more prooFFFF!!!

😂😂😂😂

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (GD0B3)

19 Jerry,
He took
It
Out.

Posted by: Elaine at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (2Ez/1)

20 see, a small minority of non-post readers are giving us all bad name!!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 02:34 PM (GD0B3)

21 " I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer"
---

Why?

Posted by: UA113 at April 02, 2026 02:34 PM (cz34i)

22 19 Jerry,
He took
It
Out.

Took what out?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 02:34 PM (DgMqy)

23 Man, what a Big News day.

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 02:34 PM (fNISR)

24 So what's this post about? Seinfeld dick jokes?

Posted by: Frost at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (zZu0s)

25 Even though these Resurrection Mills are bringing the dead back to life



So they can vote.

Afternoon all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (J8NZO)

26
"It."

Posted by: Elaine at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)

27 >>> VANCE: "Our task force isn't wasting any time cracking down on fraud."This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems."

Congress finally got off their butts and passed a law to eject any immigrant that commits welfare fraud.

When do we see the bills to eject any immigrant that commits healthcare, visa, and welfare fraud?

If those passed now, we might have a fair election come November.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (Eng1Z)

28 Whoa, Charles Lindbergh's 20 month old kid just got kidnapped!

Posted by: Dork at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (gKWVE)

29 >>>21 " I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer"
---

Why?

Posted by: UA113 a

take a guess. I'm tired of people I've never seen before coming in here to defend Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (1wjle)

30 Bondi is out.
Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

***

She doesn't look Ghey

Posted by: Truck Monkey at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (affD0)

31 Why?
Posted by: UA113 at April 02, 2026 02:34 PM (cz34i)

ace felt he was too cozy with Tucker or Vance did not repudiate him when Tucker went off his feed.

Posted by: Frost at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

32 26
"It."
Posted by: Elaine at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (2Ez/1)

Nailed it!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (DgMqy)

33 On my prediction that our fraudsters are mostly immigrants:

This is what happens when you import a large number of people who are not part of your culture and have no desire to be a part of it.

A significant portion of them will see the native populace as enemies or at least "the other" to be fleeced. There's no desire to play by the rules.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (N1DT3)
____

The lower-level frontmen, yes. But this is almost certainly all run by organized crime at the top. The LA hospice care fraud is reportedly run by the Russian and Armenian (!) mobs.

Remember all the mass looting of jewelry and department stores that was happening a lot during covid? All organized by gangs and the mob.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

34 See! Thats why.

Posted by: Frost at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (zZu0s)

35 24 So what's this post about? Seinfeld dick jokes?
Posted by: Frost at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM
+++

Aren't they all?

Posted by: Just got here at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (2Ez/1)

36 Uh oh.

https://is.gd/3oqZIx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (ndZc7)

37 /off Aliens sock

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

38 Bondi is out.
Posted by: Derak at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (AfigF)

He took it out?
Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld


He just wrote her off, Jerry. He just wrote her off.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (J8NZO)

39 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (A5RD0)

40 Would love to see a cross reference between "hospice" owners and Democrat donor lists.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (q5Sxq)

41 39 This is all just a distraction from the Epstein files.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (A5RD0)

Isn't everything... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (FtULh)

42 they were always troublemakers, that and the sand people,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 02, 2026 02:38 PM (bXbFr)

43 This is what happens when you import a large number of people who are not part of your culture and have no desire to be a part of it.

A significant portion of them will see the native populace as enemies or at least "the other" to be fleeced. There's no desire to play by the rules."

Play by our rules. They are playing by theirs...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:38 PM (XuXeR)

44 Uh oh.

https://is.gd/3oqZIx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (ndZc7)

To be fair, those tits look better than the ones he actually wore. Its a low bar, but the photoshopper managed to step over it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

45 Bondi took it out?

How would that even work?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2026 02:38 PM (LxER7)

46 Pam has them all on her desk.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at April 02, 2026 02:39 PM (2Ez/1)

47 "Them" I could see......

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2026 02:39 PM (LxER7)

48 Would love to see a cross reference between "hospice" owners and Democrat donor lists.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (q5Sxq)

I'd like to see a crossreference between hospice patients and dem voter rolls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:39 PM (zZu0s)

49 Bondi took it out?

How would that even work?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 02, 2026 02:38 PM (LxER7

Let me show you.

Posted by: Big Mike Obama at April 02, 2026 02:39 PM (FmapG)

50
g'afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 02, 2026 02:40 PM (tljrc)

51 the jawas,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 02, 2026 02:40 PM (bXbFr)

52 Whoa, Charles Lindbergh's 20 month old kid just got kidnapped!"

Oh man, the Doobie Brothers broke up!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:40 PM (XuXeR)

53 Dr. Fariba Javaherian

Those doggone Scandis are at it again.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (0sNs1)

54 Whoa, Charles Lindbergh's 20 month old kid just got kidnapped!
Posted by: Dork at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (gKWVE)

Actually laughing out loud here

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

55
DOWN GOES BONDI!
DOWN GOES BONDI!

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (ZxPkt)

56 I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer


Didn't he say something weird about UFOs recently?

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

57 Uh oh.

https://is.gd/3oqZIx
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM
###
They're real and they're spectacular!

Posted by: And yet another Seinfeld reference at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (2Ez/1)

58 Yeah. Good luck with that.

Supreme Court Begs Colorado To Please Just Be Normal For Once

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (ndZc7)

59 take a guess. I'm tired of people I've never seen before coming in here to defend Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (1wjle)

JD Vance needs to stop socking our trolls.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (N1DT3)

60 DOWN GOES BONDI!

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (ZxPkt)

That's how you get to run for president!!!

Posted by: Kamala at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (FmapG)

61 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

I think she's reaching a point where authorities might consider a welfare check.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (q5Sxq)

62 On my prediction that our fraudsters are mostly immigrants:

This is what happens when you import a large number of people who are not part of your culture and have no desire to be a part of it.

A significant portion of them will see the native populace as enemies or at least "the other" to be fleeced. There's no desire to play by the rules.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (N1DT3)

Sure, but they did this with the knowing connivance of thousands of CA officials who are not immigrants. If Vance and Nick Shirley can see it after a week's work then the myriads of inspectors and overseers knew damn well what was going down.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

63 7 STEINER WILL COME
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (Kt19C)

Not.... Trust the Plan?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (mP0Kj)

64 Dr. Fariba Javaherian

Those doggone Scandis are at it again"

Of the Main Line Javaherians...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (XuXeR)

65 GERMANS ATTACK PEARL HARBOR!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (zZu0s)

66 Not one other report from the media up, other than FOX News -

Gavin Newsom
Vance anti-fraud task force suspends 221 California hospice and healthcare providers so far
The 221 suspended providers in Los Angeles represent a 216% increase from numbers reported just last week
By Preston Mizell Fox News, Published April 2, 2026 12:59pm EDT

Yes, California hospices are/were licensed by the state (California Department of Public Health).

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (NFX2v)

67 My grandma "beat hospice," we thought it was her time to go when she first chose to go on it, and then it wasn't. She went off it a few months later and lived a bit longer. It did a number on my emotions, let me tell you. Grieving her impending death, only to have that grief reprieved was a blessing, but rough.

But she was A) alive, B) making her own medical decisions, and C) a real person. She was not scamming the system.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (Eng1Z)

68 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

I think she's reaching a point where authorities might consider a welfare check.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (q5Sxq)

Doesn't she know that the Foreign Legion aren't actual Frenchmen?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (8avO+)

69 knowing connivance of thousands of CA officials who are not immigrants."

Are we sure about that?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (XuXeR)

70 Scuse me while I whip this out!

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (2UnvF)

71
The problem is the shredders and evidence destruction started right after Nick Shirley left.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (IifOV)

72 Who here expects prosecution here, anyone? Raise hands?

I am sorry to sound so blackpilled today but damn it just seems like we are avalanched with evil news and nothing ever seems to come of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (El6/E)

73 61 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

I think she's reaching a point where authorities might consider a welfare check.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (q5Sxq)

Beau Geste? surely you jest...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (mP0Kj)

74 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

I think she's reaching a point where authorities might consider a welfare check.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (q5Sxq)

Is she combining the threads with the Macron defamation?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (zZu0s)

75 Not.... Trust the Plan?"

Trust the climb?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:44 PM (XuXeR)

76 Don't take Javaherian if you're allergic to Javaherian.

Posted by: Big Fat Farma at April 02, 2026 02:44 PM (2Ez/1)

77 70 Scuse me while I whip this out!
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (2UnvF)

Whip what out?

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 02:44 PM (DgMqy)

78 I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer


Didn't he say something weird about UFOs recently?
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)
______

I think he was taken out of context, but yea -- he came across as a weirdo alien dork. My bigger gripe is that he seems too close to traitors and saboteurs like Fucker. I don't mean going on podcasts, as I think strong sharp conservatives can hold their own against any enemy. I mean that he seems too personally close to them. It's a red flag for me.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

79 Doesn't she know that the Foreign Legion aren't actual Frenchmen"

Sacre Bleu!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:45 PM (XuXeR)

80 Not one other report from the media up, other than FOX News -

Gavin Newsom
Vance anti-fraud task force suspends 221 California hospice and healthcare providers so far
The 221 suspended providers in Los Angeles represent a 216% increase from numbers reported just last week
By Preston Mizell Fox News, Published April 2, 2026 12:59pm EDT

Yes, California hospices are/were licensed by the state (California Department of Public Health).
Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:42 PM (NFX2v)

In related news, I was floored to learn that we went from 800 Trucking schools pre-2020 to 18,0000 today.

Clearly that is exactly what the Sockpuppet Administration wanted.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:45 PM (N1DT3)

81 So they all to be tried in California, yes? That's where the crime occurred.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 02:45 PM (FmapG)

82 DJIA down 0.3% on news of Bondi firing.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (N8ZBc)

83 "And there is billions more in fraud to be discovered in Gruesome Newsom's California shithole alone:"

Early reports said there was like $8B of fraud just in Minnesota, then reports that California was much worse.

And if we only get one Somali arrested for each $20M of stolen funds, we are not doing so well. I'm sure that's a trade Ilhan is happy to take. Somalian Pirates come cheap, you know.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (vbXSk)

84 knowing connivance of thousands of CA officials who are not immigrants."

Are we sure about that?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (XuXeR)

You don't think they are getting their cut? Oh bless your heart you innocent.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (8avO+)

85 DJIA down 0.3% on news of Bondi firing."

Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (XuXeR)

86 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

Well, so much for the auld Scottish / French alliance. I suppose they covered for the furry's escape by rolling long stale baguettes in the cops' way

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (gKWVE)

87 You don't think they are getting their cut?"

That they're not immigrants. Quite a few in some states' governments...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

88 DJIA down 0.3% on news of Bondi firing."

Oh no!

Anyway...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (XuXeR)

Thats like a 1000 points now, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (zZu0s)

89
>>CMS revoked Javaherian's license to bill Medicare

=================

And then the DoJ charged him for all his crimes, right? RIGHT??

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (n7rxJ)

90 Early reports said there was like $8B of fraud just in Minnesota, then reports that California was much worse.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 02:46 PM (vbXSk)

CA probably wasted that much on their high speed train from nowhere to nowhere.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (8avO+)

91 Didn't he say something weird about UFOs recently?

This is like rejecting Ben Carson because he says pyramids were used to store grain. Who even cares if someone has an odd belief? WE ALL DO, you just don't usually know it. Its not like he's gonna create a Department of Exorcism to deal with the UFO invasion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (El6/E)

92 Don't drag us into this...

Posted by: The French Foreign Legion at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (2Ez/1)

93 >>> Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow. I think she's reaching a point where authorities might consider a welfare check.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:41 PM (q5Sxq)

A good husband would, at this point, whisk her and their kids away on a vacation where all tech is banned, schtupp her silly, and make her touch grass and play with the kids at least once a day. These fixations cannot be good for their family and their mental health. Step away from the youtube!

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (Eng1Z)

94 Bondi Filler & Resin can repair everything from dings in your ego to cracks in your libido.

Posted by: Bondi Filler & Resin at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (5itIU)

95 85 It's a joke. I like to riff on the "X drops on news of Z" cliche. Sorry.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (N8ZBc)

96 The lower-level frontmen, yes. But this is almost certainly all run by organized crime at the top. The LA hospice care fraud is reportedly run by the Russian and Armenian (!) mobs.

Remember all the mass looting of jewelry and department stores that was happening a lot during covid? All organized by gangs and the mob.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

Yep. A lot of Medicare and Medicaid fraud is organized crime. Some of the cartels that were operating in South Florida in the 70s and 80s got out of the drug game and moved to healthcare fraud.

Posted by: You rob governments because that's where the money is at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (TbWk/)

97 Candace the Cuckoo now says French Foreign Legion troops were "on the ground" at Charlie Kirks shooting donchaknow.

----

Bullshit. If there were French troops involved they would have surrendered to the first school crossing guard.

Posted by: Josephistan at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (y9ksN)

98 I mean that he seems too personally close to them. It's a red flag for me.

It is a concern. He's been SUPER quiet about the Iran miiltary action, which suggests to me that he's probably opposed and who knows why.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:48 PM (El6/E)

99 @BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (ZxPkt)

100 Mixed feelings about moving Zeldin away from the EPA. He seems to have actually wrested power from the entrenched loonies there, and that's no small feat.

Posted by: Ted Dansen's wig at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (RBjD4)

101 Breaking update on the Official(sort of) AOSHQ Doge, Saijo “Soup” Shiba! As we know, he was rescued from not great circumstances. When he dreamed, he would cry. Just now, this very moment, he was dreaming and WAGGING his tail! It was adorable.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

102 A good husband would, at this point, whisk her and their kids away on a vacation where all tech is banned, schtupp her silly

You mean sillier?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (gKWVE)

103 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

104 Oz - the great and powerful!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Cqx++)

105 You don't think they are getting their cut?"

That they're not immigrants. Quite a few in some states' governments...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (XuXeR)

You don't roll off a boat and get a political job in CA quite yet.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (8avO+)

106 By the way odd news story: a woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.

So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid. Which is just, odd.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (El6/E)

107 Billions in California

Billions in Minnesota


Wait till they take on Michigan, NJ, NY, IL and AZ...........WA, OR......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

108 Its not like he's gonna create a Department of Exorcism to deal with the UFO invasion."

Aw man...

*puts down bong*

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (XuXeR)

109 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (ZxPkt)

Because the Foreign Legion is too busy cleaning up after the Kirk shooting.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (FmapG)

110 I'm not a JD Vance booster any longer

Whether he's the Deep State's plant (i.e., GHWB II), an unproven, inexperienced successor, or a complete MAGA team player, he has to perform well at this to "prove" himself. It's pretty smart.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (iFEms)

111 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)

112 Breaking update on the Official(sort of) AOSHQ Doge, Saijo “Soup” Shiba! As we know, he was rescued from not great circumstances. When he dreamed, he would cry. Just now, this very moment, he was dreaming and WAGGING his tail! It was adorable.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

Awww. Wonderful news. Shiba inu are so cute.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (N1DT3)

113 Mixed feelings about moving Zeldin away from the EPA. He seems to have actually wrested power from the entrenched loonies there, and that's no small feat.
Posted by: Ted Dansen's wig at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (RBjD4)

Just combine the two departments, DEOPJA.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (8avO+)

114 101 Breaking update on the Official(sort of) AOSHQ Doge, Saijo “Soup” Shiba! As we know, he was rescued from not great circumstances. When he dreamed, he would cry. Just now, this very moment, he was dreaming and WAGGING his tail! It was adorable.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

; )

Posted by: m at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (fNISR)

115 This is like rejecting Ben Carson because he says pyramids were used to store grain. Who even cares if someone has an odd belief? WE ALL DO, you just don't usually know it. Its not like he's gonna create a Department of Exorcism to deal with the UFO invasion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm condemning him. He's entitled to his beliefs, and I'm not entirely sure what he said anyway. But it's an interesting view into someone's mind when they espouse an offbeat belief.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go make the glazed carrots that I'm going to leave out for the Easter Bunny.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (77rzZ)

116 Dr. Fariba Javaherian



Between India and islham, it's amazing we have an America anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

117 Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)

Unless he's trying to burnish Vance's resume to run for the Big Chair with Rubio.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (FmapG)

118 Trump just now on his Truth Social

'Pam will be transitioning to the private sector'


ouch

https://x.com/PressSec/status/
2039754630649782502

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (ZxPkt)

119 I am being treated for cancer. No one ever suggested I see a dermatologist. Do I have a case for malpractice?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (AlhUl)

120 You don't roll off a boat and get a political job in CA quite yet."

Ever dealt with LA County?

Heh.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (XuXeR)

121 willow:

International Crisis Center: The Houthis Enter the Middle East War: What Comes Next?
---

In sequential order. ICBMs, cruise missiles, B-1 &2 bombers, F series jets, A-10 Warthogs with Blackhawks then B-52s.
Houtis, it's time to get your affairs in order.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (YvvFZ)

122
When he dreamed, he would cry. Just now, this very moment, he was dreaming and WAGGING his tail! It was adorable.
Posted by: Piper


You brought him back to life. Just like those miracle hospices.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 02:53 PM (Cqx++)

123 Josephistan, as has been noted here the Légion étrangère is mostly non-French.
So they could be American recruits who are then ordered to hang around Owens' studio, secretly replacing her sane broadcasts with batshit silly ones by deepfake AI. Thus discrediting Owens.

Posted by: as good a theory as any of owens' at April 02, 2026 02:53 PM (gKWVE)

124 Han and Leia have their first fight.

https://is.gd/2rB2Yv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:53 PM (ndZc7)

125 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)

His last big job was being point man at going after the EU and our allies for being anti-democratic and anti-religion. Now he's going for the most evil kind of mass fraud in the country. These are important jobs on the political side.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+)

126 By the way odd news story: a woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.

So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid. Which is just, odd.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (El6/E)



They need to learn the geetar, though they seem to have the 'chicks for free' part down already.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (Zz0t1)

127 I'm looking forward to spending more time with my private sector.

Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (2Ez/1)

128
Javaherian is not accused of any wrongdoing.
Like heck he isn't. He might not be legally charged with anything, yet, but I'm sure as shootin' accusing him of wrongdoing.
Posted by: GWB

==============

Yeah wtf? Is that just the NYP avoiding prosecution by stating that she hasn't been formally charged yet?

(Followed by my sinking feeling that she won't be, ever.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (n7rxJ)

129 115 I meant "I'm not condemning him." Sheesh.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

130 https://is.gd/YMTrdT

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (Kt19C)

131 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)
******
Well, Kamala was the border czar and look how well she did at that job.

This gives JD a chance to prove himself as to whether he is worthy of the position of POTUS.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (NpAcC)

132 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.
---

wtf does that even mean

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (ZxPkt)

133 Only 25% is fraud? Sure, Jan...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (XMwZJ)

134 >>> @BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Yes, I'll let a modern Frenchman groomed and then beaten up by his wife mansplain to me battle strategy.

To quote Home Alone: Macron is what the French call "Les incompétents"

So he's just going to let countries run out of oil? The Philippines is almost completely out. It's at a crisis point globally, this blockade. This stubborn card is the only card they have left against Trump. They will sit on their hands and blow raspberries at him while the world suffers from their stupidity.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (Eng1Z)

135 BRICSinfo
JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.
Posted by: Don Black


It's true. His wife DOES have a bigger dick than he does.

Fine. Sit with empty store shelves as your country runs out of gas.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (J8NZO)

136 woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.
So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid


Why not both?

Posted by: Alyssa "Finger Cuffs" Jones at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (gKWVE)

137 By the way odd news story: a woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.

So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid. Which is just, odd.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (El6/E)

They make men pay child support for other men's kids all the time.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (8avO+)

138 Wait, so...something happened??

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (M7rua)

139 His last big job was being point man at going after the EU and our allies for being anti-democratic and anti-religion. Now he's going for the most evil kind of mass fraud in the country. These are important jobs on the political side.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (8avO+)


It's also an (almost) entirely domestic, economic issue. Having the VP involved shows that the Administration hasn't taken their eyes off the economy, which the left was saying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (ExV1e)

140 We're gonna need a bigger Task Force

Farewell and adieu you scum suckin scammers
Farewell and adieu you scammers of pain

Posted by: kactus at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (twS2i)

141 115 I meant "I'm not condemning him." Sheesh.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

Too late. It's going on your permanent record.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (dK+Kv)

142 Just think of all the poor people that could be fed with that sort of money.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (qFwJc)

143 >>Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

It's a multi organization task force that includes groups from different groups within the government including CMS, DOJ, Treasury, etc.. And they report to the 2nd in command of the Executive Branch.

I don't think there is anything nefarious.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

144 Most of that nature of fraud in my state, region is by persons and families of color "engaging in generational wealth building" and/or Healthcare Executives.

Oh, and politicians are always somehow involved, too.

SEIU
March 25 at 8:39 PM
$1.3 billion stolen from Medicare and Medicaid by a wealthy fraudster. Care ripped away from the people who need it most.
Yet somehow, that’s not the fraud they’re focused on.
Because when you’ve got connections, the rules don’t apply.
Quit playing games with people's lives.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (NFX2v)

145 This may be 100% valid, but Republican against California just makes me automatically suspicious.

I hope for the sake of any patients who need these services that these were not, in fact, providers but rather fraudsters providing no services at all.

Trump just pardoned a proven hospice fraudster, so I guess he's okay with it.

I am once again asking Newsom to grow a fucking pair and start using the full force of California’s Democratic supermajority to crack down on Silicon Valley’s collaboration with MAGA. Vance is a Thiel puppet.

I don’t give a shit about the mean tweets your interns wrote, Gavin. I want to see you drive a stake through the heart of MAGA’s social media manipulation strategy. I want to see the state of California seizing Palantir and Twitter offices

won't happen simply because democratic politicians are born and bred to be right wing enablers. They are not freedom fighters. They are friends with the rich and conservatives.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (ycI94)

146 101 Breaking update on the Official(sort of) AOSHQ Doge, Saijo “Soup” Shiba! As we know, he was rescued from not great circumstances. When he dreamed, he would cry. Just now, this very moment, he was dreaming and WAGGING his tail! It was adorable.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:49 PM (Wmg4n)

We clearly do not deserve them. This is true with my dog, and my 2 cats, one of which thinks is a dog. The other has stayed by my side when I was going through cancer treatment.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (N39Ws)

147
Awww. Wonderful news. Shiba inu are so cute.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026

He’s the best. Well, not really, because he is a Shiba Inu. But he is very cute! 😊

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (Wmg4n)

148 Simple. Just cut the child in half.

Posted by: King Solomon at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (2Ez/1)

149 Are any of us really still holding on to any actual justice for fraud to happen?

Six months.....

Second Somali fraudster handed light sentence by Minneapolis judge https://mol.im/a/15698045

Posted by: Joyenz at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (2F0/Y)

150 And to think, I have to jump through hoops to get a simple CT scan approved.

These f****s are rolling in my money like Scrooge McDuck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (HFaa7)

151 119 I am being treated for cancer. No one ever suggested I see a dermatologist. Do I have a case for malpractice?
Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 02:52 PM (AlhUl)

Depends on what cancer...and who didn't suggest it...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:58 PM (tOcjL)

152 Well, Kamala was the border czar and look how well she did at that job.

This gives JD a chance to prove himself as to whether he is worthy of the position of POTUS.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:55 PM (NpAcC)

That was one of her smartest ops. She went nowhere near the border, and went to Vietnam ? Central America? on some junket instead.

only time she seemed at all smart - not getting that albatross around her neck.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:58 PM (8avO+)

153 By the way odd news story: a woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.

So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid. Which is just, odd.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (El6/E)
____

Odd case. It seems the slut-whore tramp trollop mother did identify one of the two twin retards as the father. It was the other retard who sued to have custody. Odd.

I believe there are ways to determine even among identical twins which is the father, although it's very expensive and far more than just a typical paternity test.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:58 PM (iFTx/)

154 143 >>Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

It's a multi organization task force that includes groups from different groups within the government including CMS, DOJ, Treasury, etc.. And they report to the 2nd in command of the Executive Branch.

I don't think there is anything nefarious.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

I don't either. This could very well highlight Vance's ability to be an executive manager ready to take the reins from Trump.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 02:58 PM (N39Ws)

155 >>> Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Well Pam is getting fired, so...

If Trump fires Kash Patel next, which would be well deserved as he's also not moving fast enough, the left will yell at him for firing his minority/DEI hires, which they should have been happy about him hiring in the first place. Trump can't win.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (Eng1Z)

156 States with massive fraud should be forced to pay for it themselves.

Posted by: mr tmz at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (rJ48h)

157 hope they brought along woodchippers for the raidees. fucking bastards.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (fPlYB)

158
only time she seemed at all smart - not getting that albatross around her neck.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:58 PM (8avO+)




You asked for it.............


https://youtu.be/rKPicUnsPPg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

159 Vance needs to catch up with Action Marco

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (MzksJ)

160 Even if we don't get much oil from the Persian Gulf, who controls the Straight still affects our energy costs. You can't trust the euro weenies to do the job.

Posted by: Josephistan at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (y9ksN)

161 So whatever happened to that Bongino guy?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

162 80. Clearly that is exactly what the Sockpuppet Administration wanted.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

👍 Yes, make a/the program unmanageable, ungovernable.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (NFX2v)

163 >>Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

It's a multi organization task force that includes groups from different groups within the government including CMS, DOJ, Treasury, etc.. And they report to the 2nd in command of the Executive Branch.

I don't think there is anything nefarious.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

I'm more interested in getting the money cut off. All of that fraud gets back into Democrat coffers.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (8avO+)

164 By the way odd news story: a woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.

So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid. Which is just, odd.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:50 PM (El6/E)

I feel sorry for the kid, but no pity for the woman at all.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (N1DT3)

165 Everything is a matter of incentive - it's why we tried out prisons.

But they didn't work. There's fraud all over the place, and none of these fraudsters even wind up in the cells.

I have a different idea: panther pits.

Panther pits will be cheaper than traditional prisons, recidivism will drop to zero, children can take field trips to learn about justice and zoology at the same time, and panther judges can't be bought with anything but live prey, once they've tasted it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BI5O2)

166 If Trump fires Kash Patel next, which would be well deserved as he's also not moving fast enough, the left will yell at him for firing his minority/DEI hires, which they should have been happy about him hiring in the first place. Trump can't win.
Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (Eng1Z)


If he fires people fast enough, we can run through the entire population of the country being fired for not moving fast enough.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (ExV1e)

167 I know this is OT but fuck Europe and NATO with the barbed cock of Satan.

May they all DIAF.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (V4IXI)

168 >>I don't either. This could very well highlight Vance's ability to be an executive manager ready to take the reins from Trump.

That's what I was thinking. Getting rid of government fraud is one of Trump's top goals and he just gave Vance a very high profile opportunity to shine.

Besides, Marco just got a new job as Chief Toll Taker at the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (viF8m)

169 won't happen simply because democratic politicians are born and bred to be right wing enablers. They are not freedom fighters. They are friends with the rich and conservatives.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 02:57 PM (ycI94)

I fucking wish!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

170 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)

But it's not not a job for him, either.

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (lCppi)

171 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Breaking News: French pussy says limp wristed pussy things.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (IifOV)

172 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.
Posted by: Don Black


It's true. His wife DOES have a bigger dick than he does.

Fine. Sit with empty store shelves as your country runs out of gas.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 02:56 PM (J8NZO)
----
How much of an asshole do you have to be to watch your country fall back into seventh-century barbarism rather than buy oil from the United States?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (ESVrU)

173 160 Even if we don't get much oil from the Persian Gulf, who controls the Straight still affects our energy costs. You can't trust the euro weenies to do the job.
____

Euroweenies - Soft power!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (Dv3i1)

174 Saijo “Soup” Shiba!

Tell me moar

Posted by: jugear fukstik at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (Kt19C)

175 States with massive fraud should be forced to pay for it themselves.

---------------------------------

Why should taxpayers in Vermont subsidize welfare benefits in Arkansas. Yes, I know it would be the other way round but the question stands.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (ExV1e)

176 161 So whatever happened to that Bongino guy?
Posted by: I gotta ask at April 02, 2026 03

He is currently beating Massie up on X.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (Wmg4n)

177 Did the twins do a version of Patent Trap: Stepmom edition?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (zZu0s)

178 But it's not not a job for him, either.
Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 03:01 PM (lCppi)

The job of the Veep is what the Prez says it is.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (8avO+)

179 Over on x.com (hopefully this isn't a margin blower):
FFT1776/status/2039741220684022055
BREAKING: Swalwell NDA Sexual Abuse story heating up FAST!
My anonymous source is reporting a major media outlet is talking to THREE women this afternoon; one has receipts and one is a former Kamala Harris staffer.


My guess is that Katie Porter is trying to hustle Swalwell off the race. Presently two Republicans are taking up the top of the "jungle" primary. Which means no Democrats will be in the runoff.
If Swalwell sinks below 10%, Porter stands to benefit from whatever women are still supporting that flatulent sleaze (and from simps). This might put her in second place which means she'll win the runoff.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (gKWVE)

180 They need to learn the geetar, though they seem to have the 'chicks for free' part down already.

I wonder, do women hvae twin fantasies like many guys do?

Why not both?

That might end up being what they do, after all as Oldcat says "They make men pay child support for other men's kids all the time."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (El6/E)

181 GERMANS ATTACK PEARL HARBOR!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


Great. We're going to have to eat Schwein-sushi now~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (diia5)

182 woman slept with two twin brothers separately over the course of separate days and got pregnant. Science cannot tell which one is the father.
So legally neither one are on the hook for the kid


You think that's bad...this story is about a dude with super syphilis speading it to multiple women in their 40s-60s in a couple of months. He was slaying that silver mish.

https://tinyurl.com/2cczhufz
(It’s a longer YouTube video, so best to queue up to listen later while cleaning or something lol)

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (ycI94)

183 Oil is bought and sold at market rates, regardless of where the oil originates or is refined.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (HFaa7)

184 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

185 176 161 So whatever happened to that Bongino guy?
Posted by: I gotta ask at April 02, 2026 03

He is currently beating Massie up on X.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (Wmg4n)
===============
Good

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (sZ8Ea)

186 I know this is OT but fuck Europe and NATO with the barbed cock of Satan.

May they all DIAF.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

That's never OT.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (ndZc7)

187 How much of an asshole do you have to be to watch your country fall back into seventh-century barbarism rather than buy oil from the United States?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 03:02 PM (ESVrU)

the European kind.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (8avO+)

188
So the husband-and-wife scammers were raided by the FBI. This means something IS happening, correct? This is beyond an "investigation" that will be "referred" to the DoJ for "possible" "further action," right?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (n7rxJ)

189 "The job of the Veep is "

Bucket of warm spit. At least they heat it up a bit for the poor SOB.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (N8ZBc)

190 I have heard of cases where twin girls will secretly swap around with a boyfriend, how far they go I don't really want to speculate about. Never heard about a dude doing that, usually we're kinda possessive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (El6/E)

191 Go Vance and team! Go!

Recover the money. Lower my taxes.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (u82oZ)

192 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

They have been popping off a missile or 10 these days, in theory one might hit a ship.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (8avO+)

193 Anyone have any two-seam fastball coaching tips?

We're adding that to little flounder's arsenal this year.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (dK+Kv)

194 Sit with empty store shelves as your country runs out of gas"

The Lord Humongous nods...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (XuXeR)

195 My guess is that Katie Porter is trying to hustle Swalwell off the race.
___

Katie Porter has all the charisma (and shape) of a cold lump of mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (Dv3i1)

196 160 Even if we don't get much oil from the Persian Gulf, who controls the Straight still affects our energy costs. You can't trust the euro weenies to do the job.

With the added A10 Warthogs deployed, I'd say take the islands in the Strait of Hormuz. They belong to us now. We control and monitor the traffic - and the tolls. This could be a revenue stream to pay down our debt.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (N39Ws)

197 161 So whatever happened to that Bongino guy?
Posted by: I gotta ask

Pushing today's podcast.

In Due Time (Ep. 2486).

In this episode, I cover Trump's message to America, huge news from the Supreme Court, and the hidden impact of widespread fraud in blue states.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (NFX2v)

198 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)


Shipping companies choosing the use the refusal of Lloyds to insure them as an excuse to stay put as a means for global companies to try and pressure Trump.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (ExV1e)

199 Anyone have any two-seam fastball coaching tips?

We're adding that to little flounder's arsenal this year.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:05 PM (dK+Kv)



Stretch, a lot.

Or, Tommy John, whichever you can afford.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

200 In his first term Trump put Pence in charge of the virus task force. Not a great decision as it turned out but it's not an uncommon thing to do.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

201 So the husband-and-wife scammers were raided by the FBI. This means something IS happening, correct? This is beyond an "investigation" that will be "referred" to the DoJ for "possible" "further action," right?

Its beyond the "we're looking into it" stage, at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (El6/E)

202 How much of an asshole do you have to be to watch your country fall back into seventh-century barbarism rather than buy oil from the United States?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

But all the new, diverse Frenchmen love it! Don't let the riots, murder and car burning fool you!!!

Posted by: Macron at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (ycI94)

203 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait"

Pretty much nothing, but it will take time to reroute shipping again...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (XuXeR)

204 My guess is that Katie Porter is trying to hustle Swalwell off the race. Presently two Republicans are taking up the top of the "jungle" primary. Which means no Democrats will be in the runoff.
If Swalwell sinks below 10%, Porter stands to benefit from whatever women are still supporting that flatulent sleaze (and from simps). This might put her in second place which means she'll win the runoff.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (gKWVE)
===============
At first blush, Katie Porter as Governor sounds entertaining as hell, but then I remember that, after Bryl Cream, California deserves a serious person.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (upe25)

205 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Shipping companies choosing the use the refusal of Lloyds to insure them as an excuse to stay put as a means for global companies to try and pressure Trump.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (ExV1e)

Trump already offered them insurance.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

206 Panther pits will be cheaper than traditional prisons, recidivism will drop to zero, children can take field trips to learn about justice and zoology at the same time, and panther judges can't be bought with anything but live prey, once they've tasted it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BI5O2)

That's gonna take a LOT of panthers.

We can get them off the endangered species list, as well.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (N1DT3)

207
I feel sorry for the kid, but no pity for the woman at all.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

===============

Did she know she was doing two different guys?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (n7rxJ)

208 So the husband-and-wife scammers were raided by the FBI. This means something IS happening, correct? This is beyond an "investigation" that will be "referred" to the DoJ for "possible" "further action," right?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:04 PM (n7rxJ)


FBI is DOJ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (ExV1e)

209 192 This guy seems pretty reliable at monitoring shipping status in the area. Non-partisan as far as I can tell:
youtube.com/@wgowshipping

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (N8ZBc)

210 It's just so hard to wrap my mind around $50 billion in fraud especially if you honestly work long and hard and inflation continually bites you in the ass, and these bastards are living really high just faking forms to defraud the govt.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (n5tGW)

211 Boy, conservatives are not at all consistent. They were just criticizing Spain for helping that girl die; now they are complaining that these hospice patients were kept alive.

(How long before CNN says that?)

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 03:08 PM (AlhUl)

212 Not a great decision as it turned out but it's not an uncommon thing to do.

Yeah he made Pence the Voting Fraud czar which he spent two months on and gave up because states didn't want to share voter data with him

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:08 PM (El6/E)

213 Didn't Porter literally drop HOT mashed potatoes on her husband once? She has to be the worst woman in California.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 03:08 PM (gKWVE)

214 But all the new, diverse Frenchmen love it! Don't let the riots, murder and car burning fool you!!!"

Hey, look how Haiti turned out!

/the fwench

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (XuXeR)

215 >>It's just so hard to wrap my mind around $50 billion in fraud especially if you honestly work long and hard and inflation continually bites you in the ass, and these bastards are living really high just faking forms to defraud the govt.


It's gonna get worse. I've seen reports that over $100 billion in fraudulent Covid loans were given out in California alone.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (viF8m)

216 I would love to see people go to prison.

I'd also love to see people deported back to the shithole country they've been funneling MY money to.

More and more it looks like TRILLIONS of our debt is due to DEMOCRAT FRAUD.

Vote for a Democrat and I pray for The Lord to have mercy on your soul. Not that I think it will do any good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

217 206 Panther pits will be cheaper than traditional prisons, recidivism will drop to zero, children can take field trips to learn about justice and zoology at the same time, and panther judges can't be bought with anything but live prey, once they've tasted it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:00 PM (BI5O2)

That's gonna take a LOT of panthers.

We can get them off the endangered species list, as well.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

Have you considered cougar pits?!?!? Death by snu-snu!!!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (ycI94)

218 Shipping companies choosing the use the refusal of Lloyds to insure them as an excuse to stay put as a means for global companies to try and pressure Trump.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (ExV1e)

Trump already offered them insurance.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)


That's why I said that they were making a choice and then took a stab at why they might be choosing that option.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (ExV1e)

219 We Hope's Presdent Obona becrumrs the next Attornoery General so that childrin of color our pretecorated.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (nZNS1)

220 Or, Tommy John, whichever you can afford.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

With a two-seam? Stretching is a given. But that's a relatively low-impact pitch, I thought, after four-seam and change-up.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (dK+Kv)

221 210 It's just so hard to wrap my mind around $50 billion in fraud especially if you honestly work long and hard and inflation continually bites you in the ass, and these bastards are living really high just faking forms to defraud the govt.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Filling out government forms for dozens of fake companies might require hiring part time help to assist, and at California minimum wage, that starts adding up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (Dv3i1)

222 When we say "raid" we really mean breaking down doors and bludgeoning anything that moves right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (abIsI)

223 What if we parked a few Iowa-class battleships in the Strait

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (ZxPkt)

224 "these bastards are living really high just faking forms to defraud the govt."

The bulb-heads are not as stupid as they look, at some pursuits at least.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (N8ZBc)

225
Why should taxpayers in Vermont subsidize welfare benefits in Arkansas. Yes, I know it would be the other way round but the question stands.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic


Newsom used to claim that California paid for red states welfare programs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (Cqx++)

226 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge


As long as they have one missile, no one wants to risk a sunk, leaking oil tanker in the Strait.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (J8NZO)

227 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Threats.

Threats of missiles and drones.

Ships are very expensive things and owners are risk-averse.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (N1DT3)

228 >>It's just so hard to wrap my mind around $50 billion in fraud especially if you honestly work long and hard and inflation continually bites you in the ass, and these bastards are living really high just faking forms to defraud the govt.


It's gonna get worse. I've seen reports that over $100 billion in fraudulent Covid loans were given out in California alone.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (viF8m)

Well I recall at one point in the Covid period CA hospitals admitted that about a third of the "covid" deaths were fake. I think they got fed money for that too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (8avO+)

229 198 What, exactly, is blocking the Strait? Trump said they have no navy, a rapidly dwindling pile of missiles and the IRCG is scattered in a million directions......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Shipping companies choosing the use the refusal of Lloyds to insure them as an excuse to stay put as a means for global companies to try and pressure Trump.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:06 PM (ExV1e)

And a Quatari tanker got hit with a missile yesterday...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (tOcjL)

230 Normal people: Why is everything so expensive, why do I pay so much in taxes?!?

Lefties/the FNM: A little fraud never hurt anyone amiright?!?

Vance: Here's where all your money is going normal people and you aren't going to like it

Lefties/The FNM: Why is Vance so racist, amiright?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (sKqQm)

231 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)


I think the last VP that didn't carry out a job assigned by the President was Kamala.
Why do you think Vance is like Kamala?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (rbvCR)

232 Threats.

Threats of missiles and drones.

Ships are very expensive things and owners are risk-averse.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:10 PM (N1DT3)

Conventional artillery, too.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (8avO+)

233 What if we parked a few Iowa-class battleships in the Strait
Posted by: Don Black


What if we glassed Kharg Island?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (J8NZO)

234 Trump already offered them insurance."

Chinese shipping? Doubt they'll take it...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (XuXeR)

235 Porter is so bad I'd rather marry Dunham.

Posted by: gKWVE doesn't have many options at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (gKWVE)

236 Pretty much nothing, but it will take time to reroute shipping again...
Posted by: man

Reroute where?

Im confused

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (yFlgz)

237 What do Democrats think of their party leaders? Not much.

https://tinyurl.com/awazzsva

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (upe25)

238 159 Vance needs to catch up with Action Marco
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 02:59 PM (MzksJ)

That's why Trump gave him the job. He needs the boost.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (fZiTB)

239 >>@AGPamBondi
·
7m
>>Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration.

A lot more.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)

240 Didn't Porter literally drop HOT mashed potatoes on her husband once? She has to be the worst woman in California.
Posted by: gKWVE at April 02, 2026 03:08 PM (gKWVE)
====

Yes, something married her once.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (RIvkX)

241 And a Quatari tanker got hit with a missile yesterday..."

And didn't do much at all. Tankers are hard to take down...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (XuXeR)

242 With a two-seam? Stretching is a given. But that's a relatively low-impact pitch, I thought, after four-seam and change-up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (dK+Kv)

Go for the knuckler. Kid could pitch every game.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (8avO+)

243 237 What do Democrats think of their party leaders? Not much.
____

Trump isn't in jail yet, I suspect is the reason for their discontent.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 03:13 PM (Dv3i1)

244 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.

Posted by: Braenyard


Marco was busy?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:13 PM (abIsI)

245 The average American pays about $500K in their life time in taxes.

$50B in fraud is taking the lifetime tax payment of 100,000 citizens.

All stolen

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

246 Pretty much nothing, but it will take time to reroute shipping again...
Posted by: man

Reroute where?

Im confused
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 02, 2026 03:11 PM (yFlgz)

Yeah, just run the straits like Grant ran past Vicksburg batteries twice. No problem.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

247
With a two-seam? Stretching is a given. But that's a relatively low-impact pitch, I thought, after four-seam and change-up.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:09 PM (dK+Kv)



Throwing an excessive amount of junk as a yute will destroy the youngin's arm, but there are parents out there getting their 15 and 16 year olds TJ Surgery just because.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

248 Hospice care? Dermatologist?

I'll go with bed sores for $500, Alex.

She'll skate.

Posted by: Orson at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (dIske)

249 Mary C. has been hitting the Sterno pretty hard, I see.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (OHfJt)

250 The average American pays about $500K in their life time in taxes.

$50B in fraud is taking the lifetime tax payment of 100,000 citizens.

All stolen
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:13 PM (sKqQm)

I've known that 90 percent of my taxes are wasted all my life.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (8avO+)

251 @AGPamBondi
·
7m
>>Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration.

A lot more.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (viF8m)




Huh. I didn't think Morning Joe fought for Trump at all.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)

252 >>Anyone have any two-seam fastball coaching tips?


Your Fastball is only as good as your Changeup / Curve.



Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (TLp3A)

253 Well, for starters we don't HAVE any Iowa Class battleships...

Posted by: Oh by the way at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (2Ez/1)

254 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)


I would point out also that Trump appears to like to test his people for loyalty and ability. He will get rid of people that fail him.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (rbvCR)

255 Throwing an excessive amount of junk as a yute will destroy the youngin's arm, but there are parents out there getting their 15 and 16 year olds TJ Surgery just because.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)


Only differing in specifics from the parents who allow their children to be sexually abused for music/acting money.

Junior's pain is my retirement plan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (ExV1e)

256 I've known that 90 percent of my taxes are wasted all my life.
Posted by: Oldcat


Don't get me started talking about local property taxes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (abIsI)

257 Is Todd Blanche amazing like Jeff Sessions amazing? Blanche was a Dem before 2024....

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (GD0B3)

258 >When we say "raid" we really mean breaking down doors and bludgeoning anything that moves right?
---

A regular Number Six, yessir

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (ZxPkt)

259 Reroute where?"

From other routes worldwide. Once the USN showed up and numbers of vessels left, they just didn't all sit at anchor. Their transponders began to spread to other routes. It'll take time to restore traffic.
It's not like a vehicle red light...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (XuXeR)

260 250 The Lessons of 2008:

1) Everything is fraud.
2) Fraudsters get govt bailouts.
3) YOLO.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (N8ZBc)

261 I've known that 90 percent of my taxes are wasted all my life.

If the GOP wants to win this is a point they have to keep hammering.

The left/FNM keep saying prices/taxes are high because "the rich don't pay their fair share!"

Counter it. Something the GOPe doesn't generally. Explain almost all of this money is flat out stolen.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (sKqQm)

262 https://is.gd/3oqZIx

If not JD, then who? Obviously Rubio and DeSantis, but anyone else I'm missing?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (Riz8t)

263 I've known that 90 percent of my taxes are wasted all my life.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (8avO+)


Cheer up, just remember that everything you earned in a year they spent in less than a day, so it didn't do them much good in the long term!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (rbvCR)

264
Billions in California

Billions in Minnesota


Wait till they take on Michigan, NJ, NY, IL and AZ...........WA, OR......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

================

All those governors have their answers ready, guaranteed.

[shoulders squared, jaws set] "We took immediate action when we learned of these cases, and our efforts saved our state over $67 billion in illegal payouts. No one gets away with defrauding the California/Arizona/New York taxpayer on my watch!"

Same sort of drivel will come out of their mouths in presidential debate, whoever the candidate is. I hope our candidate is prepared to call them lousy organizers, lousy guarantors of the public trust, lazy-ass overseers, people who sat on their asses while a QUARTER of their welfare cases went to fraudsters and who didn't get up until Trump's administration got busy, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (n7rxJ)

265 Tina Peter’s 9 year prison sentence suspended—for now at least

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (e4Zyo)

266 Well, for starters we don't HAVE any Iowa Class battleships...
Posted by: Oh by the way at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (2Ez/1)

The New Jersey is just sitting there in Camden.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (8avO+)

267 Huh. I didn't think Morning Joe fought for Trump at all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)


Not to worry. Now we'll have an AG who'll make zero media appearances and accomplish no more than Bondi.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (ExV1e)

268 Mary C. has been hitting the Sterno pretty hard, I see.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (OHfJt)


Ya gotta love it when she gets tipsy...and frisky.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (2WIwB)

269 Vance is doing it because Trump made him an offer he could not refuse.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (GD0B3)

270 Vance can catch a thief. But can he feed him to a panther?

No. And that's not his job. It's my job.

YD for AG. Contact your Senator.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (BI5O2)

271 "Apparently there are millions of terminally ill patients dying of Problem Acne."

It could happen

Posted by: Canada MAID service at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (53oGX)

272 https://is.gd/3oqZIx

If not JD, then who? Obviously Rubio and DeSantis, but anyone else I'm missing?


Oops. That was supposed to be an Ace quote about JD.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:17 PM (Riz8t)

273 The VP doesn't have a formal portfolio - it would make sense Trump would send him where he needs results.

And obviously he hasn't been happy with Bondi, so sending Trump to do DOJ related activities makes sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (sKqQm)

274 Well, for starters we don't HAVE any Iowa Class battleships...
Posted by: Oh by the way at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (2Ez/1)

Oddly, I see a video clip on ewetub right now from Battleship New Jersey that they are test firing the guns for the first time since 1990. For some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (zZu0s)

275 I feel like it's a little unfair to say you don't support JD Vance anymore because of the worst elements of those that do.

That would be a bit like saying you don't support Trump because at one point Milo Yiannofaggot supported Trump.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (oqH4h)

276 OK, back to Bondi?

Hindustan Times, Pam Bondi firing row: Ex-AG begged Trump to not oust her; key Eric Swalwell link revealed in final conversation
Pam Bondi is gone. The 60-year-old was fired as the Attorney General on Thursday.
2 April 2026

🤔 But Eric just spent 2 days slapped across a lot of headlines: 'As of April 2026, he is involved in a lawsuit against Donald Trump regarding the January 6, 2021, attack.' (AI Overview)

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (NFX2v)

277 Huh. I didn't think Morning Joe Everytown fought for Trump at all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (abIsI)

278 I would point out also that Trump appears to like to test his people for loyalty and ability. He will get rid of people that fail him.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 03:15 PM (rbvCR)


Can't fire the VP. He was elected.

And Trump isn't running again. He could withhold his endorsement but that's about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (ExV1e)

279 "If not JD, then who?"

A guy with expertise in investigating and prosecuting fraud. If you can't find one of those, go with a forensic accountant or auditor.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (N8ZBc)

280 Only differing in specifics from the parents who allow their children to be sexually abused for music/acting money.

Junior's pain is my retirement plan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (ExV1e)



I don't disagree. Coaches and $$$$ has destroyed youth sports, mostly. The pressure on these kids to perform and younger and younger ages so coaches can rack up wins and better jobs at the cost of kids is heartbreaking to me.

No one should be allowed to throw specific pitches until their Jr. or Sr. years of High School at the earliest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

281 John Thune is busy courting positive press coverage, claiming to have delivered "a dose of reality" to Trump on funding DHS. Trump is a man of infinite patience, dealing with retarded people like GOPe Senators.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (upe25)

282 What's a Todd Blanche?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (2Ez/1)

283 Mary C. has been hitting the Sterno pretty hard, I see.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (OHfJt)


It's the stupidest, unfunny sock on here. Thus a stain on Rush's memory.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (GD0B3)

284 50 bil a year is the kind of money you atart hanging people over

Or topple governments for failing to clean it up

How much you wanna bet Bondi slow walked aome of this, thus Vance was given it

Posted by: heya at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (RW4Zm)

285 Battleship New Jersey that they are test firing the guns for the first time since 1990."

Don't tease me...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (XuXeR)

286 Reroute where?"

From other routes worldwide. Once the USN showed up and numbers of vessels left, they just didn't all sit at anchor. Their transponders began to spread to other routes. It'll take time to restore traffic.
It's not like a vehicle red light...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:16 PM (XuXeR)

I'm sure the companies can figure out a possible route for delivery in minutes. Especially for oil.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (8avO+)

287 Cheer up, just remember that everything you earned in a year they spent in less than a day, so it didn't do them much good in the long term!

The Somali Learing Center case was just under $2M. So 4 Americans worked their whole lifetime to pay for that.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (sKqQm)

288
When we say "raid" we really mean breaking down doors and bludgeoning anything that moves right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

===============

If you're talking about that kindly couple with all the hospice centers, yes.

By the way, what kind of names are Amelou (female) and Gladwin (male)? Last name Gill.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (n7rxJ)

289 What's a Todd Blanche?

==

I am gonna go with "potential backstabber" for now....

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (GD0B3)

290 Throwing an excessive amount of junk as a yute will destroy the youngin's arm, but there are parents out there getting their 15 and 16 year olds TJ Surgery just because.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Reading Tiger Woods talking about how many back and leg surgeries he's had makes me glad I ended my running career once my knees had an issue.

I can still walk today without pain and I know a lot of runners that can't.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (N1DT3)

291 So, jail time.

Three months?

Four?

May I recommend human centipeding them together until the money is paid back in full? Their families too.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 03:20 PM (Sco7b)

292 I'm sure the companies can figure out a possible route for delivery in minutes. Especially for oil"

Sure. Right after this contract is up. At 8 knots...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (XuXeR)

293 "If not JD, then who?"

A guy with expertise in investigating and prosecuting fraud. If you can't find one of those, go with a forensic accountant or auditor.


I was unclear. I was talking about JD for president.

I'll come in again.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (Riz8t)

294 "If not JD, then who?"

A guy with expertise in investigating and prosecuting fraud. If you can't find one of those, go with a forensic accountant or auditor.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (N8ZBc)

Those guys you hire UNDER Vance instead of wasting their time doing pressers. Come On.

Put Big Balls on their computers.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+)

295 Oddly, I see a video clip on ewetub right now from Battleship New Jersey that they are test firing the guns for the first time since 1990. For some reason.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM
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Don't know anything about it.

Posted by: YouTube channels created by AI bots at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (2Ez/1)

296
At first blush, Katie Porter as Governor sounds entertaining as hell

Posted by: Huck Follywood

================

That's not funny, it's sick.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (n7rxJ)

297 How about for every $1M stolen you lose an appendage? Then if you hit $6M we remove your head too?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (sKqQm)

298 Don't tease me...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (XuXeR)

This was posted yesterday. Just started watching it. He already backed off and said they were firing a gun in the parking lot. Think it might be April Fools.

https://youtu.be/u9xcGBScuKA?
si=8SAf07dLnPS2jVYj

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (zZu0s)

299 >>Hindustan Times, Pam Bondi firing row: Ex-AG begged Trump to not oust her; key Eric Swalwell link revealed in final conversation
Pam Bondi is gone. The 60-year-old was fired as the Attorney General on Thursday.
2 April 2026

Every single article about this is based off reporting from a single reporter with the Daily Mail.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

300
Reading Tiger Woods talking about how many back and leg surgeries he's had makes me glad I ended my running career once my knees had an issue.

I can still walk today without pain and I know a lot of runners that can't.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (N1DT3)



Tiger was on HGH and his muscles outworked his skeletal structure. He fractured his f*cking knee swinging a golf club, ferchryssakes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

301 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.
Posted by: Don Black


What an odd way to say "We won't conduct any hostilities against the US."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (a+4eV)

302 Throwing an excessive amount of junk as a yute will destroy the youngin's arm, but there are parents out there getting their 15 and 16 year olds TJ Surgery just because.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

That is something I've heard, adding a few MPH. Insane; not doing that. Not interested in throwing junk, either. Two-seam seems tame. No curves, sliders, etc. at this level.

We're just looking to keep his interest by adding something new and have him start to get in batters' heads.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)

303 279 "If not JD, then who?"

A guy with expertise in investigating and prosecuting fraud. If you can't find one of those, go with a forensic accountant or auditor.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (N8ZBc)

Vance had 2 years as a corporate lawyer at a prestigious firm and 1 year as a clerk for a judge...

Which isn't a lot, but when we're talking about Zeldin as AG, seems like all that's needed to do a "look into business fraud" type job...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (tOcjL)

304 I'm sure the companies can figure out a possible route for delivery in minutes. Especially for oil"

Sure. Right after this contract is up. At 8 knots...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (XuXeR)

if there is a contract, then they know where to go. This makes no sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (8avO+)

305 293 Ooops, my mistake. That said, those are good qualities for a prez too, among others.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (N8ZBc)

306 We'll also send the Yorktown and the Essex!

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (ZxPkt)

307 A golf swing is not a natural movement. Most of the top tier guys fuck up their backs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

308 Go for the knuckler. Kid could pitch every game.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (8avO+)

Thought about it. I don't think he's fast enough to get appreciable movement, so it would just be a big, fat, slow meatball.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (dK+Kv)

309 Every single article about this is based off reporting from a single reporter with the Daily Mail./i]

I assume then the Swalwell thing is included so that Trump can trace the leak

Tell one group it was Swalwell, another it was Russiagate, another it was Somali fraud and so on and then see what the FNM starts saying was the reason

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (sKqQm)

310 As AG, my biggest challenge will be to keep our precious panthers from growing too fat. To that end, I will develop Pantherbell and Pantherfit training regimens to keep the Panthers of State lean, mean, and ready to render important Court orders.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (BI5O2)

311 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Translation: We surrender!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (Riz8t)

312 if there is a contract, then they know where to go. This makes no sense."

? They're running elsewhere. It'll take time to restore traffic.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (XuXeR)

313 Oddly, I see a video clip on ewetub right now from Battleship New Jersey that they are test firing the guns for the first time since 1990. For some reason.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM
####

Don't know anything about it.
Posted by: YouTube channels created by AI bots at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (2Ez/1)

They have been doing work on the underside these last years to keep it working for the next few decades.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:24 PM (8avO+)

314 n Miracle Factories have achieved a ninety-seven plus percent survival rate."

______________________________________


Was this where Jimmuh Carter was ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 02, 2026 03:24 PM (NtVYv)

315 Vance had 2 years as a corporate lawyer at a prestigious firm and 1 year as a clerk for a judge...

Which isn't a lot, but when we're talking about Zeldin as AG, seems like all that's needed to do a "look into business fraud" type job...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (tOcjL)


Whoever is heading a task force, or acting as AG, isn't looking into anything. They're a personnel manager.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:24 PM (ExV1e)

316 Probably already mentioned?

Another element of hospice care is pain med prescriptions. It’s common for each patient to be prescribed morphine and other drugs to minimize pain since they are not treated for life threatening conditions.

Bet they are also into the drug business as well as fraud.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:25 PM (4KUe5)

317
>>Dr. Oz told the California Post that CMS has suspended "hundreds" of hospice licenses in California.

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And that's all that happens to those people. As we type, they're lining up their next grift.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:25 PM (n7rxJ)

318 That is something I've heard, adding a few MPH. Insane; not doing that. Not interested in throwing junk, either. Two-seam seems tame. No curves, sliders, etc. at this level.

We're just looking to keep his interest by adding something new and have him start to get in batters' heads.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)



First Daughter played softball for years. She wanted to learn how to pitch. We ended up getting a private lesson guy who was really good and reasonably priced. He did wonders for her. She was of small stature, but was still throwing 50mph at 14 years old.

Find a coach. One you agree with and the kid respects. Easier said than done, sure, but you won't regret it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

319 Bet they are also into the drug business as well as fraud.

A common theme in fiction is medical workers stealing pain meds. I assume there is a real world basis in it but I have no real data

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (sKqQm)

320 Bet they are also into the drug business as well as fraud."

Sigh. You're probably right.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (XuXeR)

321 Why?

Posted by: UA113 a

take a guess. I'm tired of people I've never seen before coming in here to defend Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
---------------
Ace, Tucker dresses well and is kind to dogs.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (n17eQ)

322 246
Yeah, just run the straits like Grant ran past Vicksburg batteries twice. No problem.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

I'd much rather go through Kharg and the other islands in the Strait of Hormuz in a similar way that Sherman went through Atlanta. Twice.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (N39Ws)

323 254 Don't understand why Vance is doing this. This is a job for the DOJ. Is Trump pissed at Vance? Or does he think Vance needs the experience? This is not a job for the Vice-President.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (YvvFZ)

I would point out also that Trump appears to like to test his people for loyalty and ability. He will get rid of people that fail him.
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He seems to praise Marco all the time. Vance, not so much.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (G0vdT)

324 Travel sports are an insane racket that destroy kids' bodies and parents' bank accounts, for no real reason.

The odds that your kid is ever going to go pro in literally anything are infinitesimally small.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (oqH4h)

325 When we say "raid" we really mean breaking down doors and bludgeoning anything that moves right?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

===============

If you're talking about that kindly couple with all the hospice centers, yes.

By the way, what kind of names are Amelou (female) and Gladwin (male)? Last name Gill.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:19 PM (n7rxJ)
_________

The guy (based on the pics) is some kind of Indian or Pakistani or similar. Maybe Moroccan? I can't find a pic of the woman. His daughter (?) looks like a OF THOT.

https://seraphimhealth.wordpress.com/test/

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

326 Go for the knuckler. Kid could pitch every game.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (8avO+)

Thought about it. I don't think he's fast enough to get appreciable movement, so it would just be a big, fat, slow meatball.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (dK+Kv)

The knuck doesn't have to be super fast or super slow which is why it was the career saver when fireballer Jim Bouton picked it up after messing up his elbow in the 60s. He couldn't throw a curve after that. His book "Ball Four" is a hoot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (8avO+)

327 Why?

Posted by: UA113 a

take a guess. I'm tired of people I've never seen before coming in here to defend Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
---------------
Ace, Tucker dresses well and is kind to dogs.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (n17eQ)

So you're saying Tucker isn't a musselmen yet.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (N1DT3)

328 Another point in all this is that the left runs around saying the government is underfunding healthcare killing millions.

One of the easiest ways to spend more real dollars on healthcare is to stop fraud so if the left believes what they say they should be even more angry about fraud then we are.

And yet...they do not care. At all.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (sKqQm)

329 I'd much rather go through Kharg and the other islands in the Strait of Hormuz in a similar way that Sherman went through Atlanta. Twice"

Leave the facilities. Anyone in the way gets it...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (XuXeR)

330 I was unclear. I was talking about JD for president.

I'll come in again.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:21 PM (Riz8t)


sadly the support from the pundit-sphere and GOP party politics is not "who will be the best person for the job," but "who will be the best person for MY job."
Vance is not connected to old money and old power centers, and most of the big punditry is deeply tied to those.
He IS tied to new money and tech bros, and he IS charming and dedicated, and he did grow up in one of the disposable fly-over states IS the son of an addict who's drugs came through a network overseen by cartels, the CIA and enabled by foreign wars.

He has the wrong friends and the wrong relatives, and as usual they do not call him white trash because he is disposable, they call him white trash as a pretext for disposing of him.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (rbvCR)

331 Dammit, we've lost in Iran for sure.

A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

https://is.gd/8C2SQg

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

332 Travel sports are an insane racket that destroy kids' bodies and parents' bank accounts, for no real reason.

The odds that your kid is ever going to go pro in literally anything are infinitesimally small.

Posted by: ballistic at April 02, 2026 03:26 PM (oqH4h)

Don't care about pro. College level is a nice thought, which could keep them focused while pursuing a degree instead of tail and alcohol. I am not destroying their bodies for kids' sports, that is a given.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (dK+Kv)

333 So I think Fu*er Carlson was at Jan 6

Color me shocked.

My brother and I were lucky to get out of there.

Posted by: Lin-Duh at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (51TOp)

334 A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

https://is.gd/8C2SQg

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)




*knock knock knock*

"Pizza guy."

"Who?"

"Pizza guy........I'm not a Jew."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

335 Vance/Rubio'28: It's About Fucking Time

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (4NO2D)

336 315 Vance had 2 years as a corporate lawyer at a prestigious firm and 1 year as a clerk for a judge...

Which isn't a lot, but when we're talking about Zeldin as AG, seems like all that's needed to do a "look into business fraud" type job...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 03:22 PM (tOcjL)

Whoever is heading a task force, or acting as AG, isn't looking into anything. They're a personnel manager.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 03:24 PM (ExV1e)

Anyone in charge needs to know HOW to do the job, even if they don't do the job. If you don't know what you're talking about, you just get rolled by zealot liberal underlings who can sell you any story they want...

So, you need a base minimum knowledge and experience. So, you can't have a non courtroom lawyer head up an eventual prosecutorial exercise...and this fraud thing will be a prosecutorial exercise at some point, if it means to be successful...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (tOcjL)

337 He seems to praise Marco all the time. Vance, not so much.

Marco is the greatest Sec State in American history. Comparing Vance to him is a bit unfair to Vance...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (sKqQm)

338 Dammit, we've lost in Iran for sure.

A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

https://is.gd/8C2SQg

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

I love this because it makes it clear normal Iranians are MORE than happy to tell Israel where to find the Iranian "Leaders".

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (N1DT3)

339 Vance needs to embrace Chain Denaturizationand Deportation when it comes to these fraudsters.

By all means, prosecute and punish them, but the rest of the family has to go back to the homeland. Don’t care if some were born here.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (4KUe5)

340 He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

https://is.gd/8C2SQg

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

Way to be the strong horse, dude.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

341 If you are in hospice, you DEFINITELY have no health for which to care.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 03:29 PM (E6xSb)

342 "If not JD, then who?"

A guy with expertise in investigating and prosecuting fraud. If you can't find one of those, go with a forensic accountant or auditor.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM (N8ZBc)

Would you settle for a few dudes in Minneapolis who can recognize Somalians and refer them to the 8th District's panther pits?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice for Attorney General at April 02, 2026 03:30 PM (BI5O2)

343 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

Translation: We surrender!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (Riz8t)

Wow, I'm uh..shocked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 03:30 PM (snZF9)

344 justice dot gov
Central District of California
Press Release
8 Arrested in Health Care Fraud Takedown, Including Owners of Hospices that Billed Taxpayers Millions of Dollars to Serve the ‘Dying’
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Under MEDICARE HOSPICE CARE FRAUD -
Gladwin Gill, a 66-year-old psychologist, and his wife, Amelou Gill, a 70-year-old registered nurse...

There's also several cases under Private Health Care Plan Fraud and Immigration Health Care Fraud

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:30 PM (NFX2v)

345 “The National Provider Identifier”

Of?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 03:30 PM (E6xSb)

346 Dammit, we've lost in Iran for sure.

A host went on live TV begging ordinary Iranians NOT to leak the hiding locations of regime officials to Israel! He literally cried that if the people expose their coordinates, “it's over” and they will be eliminated.

https://is.gd/8C2SQg

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 03:28 PM (Riz8t)

That's the kind of appeal that is 110 percent gonna be followed by a people you just murdered 40000 of.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:30 PM (8avO+)

347 So you're saying Tucker isn't a musselmen yet.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (N1DT3)
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I don't care what kind of seafood he eats, he's a nitwit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 02, 2026 03:31 PM (OHfJt)

348 The knuck doesn't have to be super fast or super slow which is why it was the career saver when fireballer Jim Bouton picked it up after messing up his elbow in the 60s. He couldn't throw a curve after that. His book "Ball Four" is a hoot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:27 PM (8avO+)

Typical knuckle balls are mid 60s plus. My guy may just yet be hitting low 50s.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:31 PM (dK+Kv)

349 One of the easiest ways to spend more real dollars on healthcare is to stop fraud "

So, both parents on hospice (one left), my out of pocket has been $$$.

Can I "interrogate" some of the fraudsters?

*looks at LS size 34 over in corner*

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:31 PM (XuXeR)

350 >>French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.


TBF - France still has their nuclear reactors, as far as I know. Of all the Eurofags, they can at least provide electricity for their people.

The rest of Europe...not so much.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:31 PM (TLp3A)

351 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.
Posted by: Don Black

What part of cheese eating surrender monkeys don't you understand?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:32 PM (ndZc7)

352 18-1, don’t forget another method of reducing healthcare costs: deport illegals.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 03:32 PM (4KUe5)

353 "Would you settle for a few dudes in Minneapolis who can recognize Somalians and refer them to the 8th District's panther pits?"

I would not rule it out. We could quibble about the frickin laser beams on the cats' heads. Green, or red?

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:32 PM (N8ZBc)

354 >>Anyone in charge needs to know HOW to do the job, even if they don't do the job.

Not really. A task force is no different from any senior executive. Trump runs the entire Exec Branch which is not really different from a large task force.

I don't think Trump can fly a fighter jet or try a case in court. He has sub managers who manage the individual agencies. Vance's job is to organize and manage the entire team. He doesn't need to know how the run CMS or the DOJ.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 03:32 PM (viF8m)

355 Ace, Tucker dresses well and is kind to dogs.

Its true, I have never seen him fry a dog with a shock collar on a stream.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:33 PM (El6/E)

356 >>Typical knuckle balls are mid 60s plus. My guy may just yet be hitting low 50s.


Work on his accuracy and his Changeup.

That's all he'll need until he develops enough to add something that moves into his repertoire.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:33 PM (TLp3A)

357 Hey! Has anyone heard the news? Bondi's out.😏

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 03:33 PM (g8Ew8)

358 Actually, France is pre-surrendering

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 03:33 PM (ZxPkt)

359 Hey! Has anyone heard the news? Bondi's out."

NOOOOOO

/ heh

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (XuXeR)

360
The Washington Post
Oil prices jump after Trump demands others ‘take the lead’ on Hormuz Strait, minutes ago

Of course France, among others, was going to screw the US.

They detest this administration.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (NFX2v)

361 I guess no more manly hand shakes between Macron and Trump.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (G0vdT)

362 Most of the top tier guys fuck up their backs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)


So it's better they just work on their putts.

Posted by: Skroob at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (gKWVE)

363 18-1, don’t forget another method of reducing healthcare costs: deport illegals.

That's true as well, but I am engaging the left on their own terms here. They excuse illegals for various reasons fine.

Why don't you want deep investigations into healthcare fraud to punish people stealing government healthcare dollars?

And the question answers itself doesn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

364 Work on his accuracy and his Changeup.

That's all he'll need until he develops enough to add something that moves into his repertoire.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:33 PM (TLp3A)

We're working on adding speed this year, and getting back/improving accuracy. He already whiffs solid hitters above his age with fastball/changeup. It's fun to watch.

Next is two-seam.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:35 PM (dK+Kv)

365 "Hey! Has anyone heard the news? Bondi's out."

Nasdaq down 0.1% on the news.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:35 PM (N8ZBc)

366
Of course France, among others, was going to screw the US.

They detest this administration.
Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:34 PM (NFX2v)



Because Trump showed him up on the world stage. Remember that meeting with Zelenzkyyy when Macron thought he was invited?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

367 She has to be the worst woman in California.
Dude, that's an EXTREMELY high bar.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 02, 2026 03:35 PM (XMwZJ)

368 Anchor babies are FRAUD.

Posted by: torabora at April 02, 2026 03:36 PM (KtOUo)

369 "Hospice care is care for the terminally ill. It can be expensive, but the care is brief: Most people who enter hospice care die within two or three weeks."


Our WWII neighbor in CT went into hospice when the doctor's said he had about 6-8 weeks to live. They sent him home six months later. He lived for three more years. Every time I saw him after that I remarked he looked real good for a dead man.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 02, 2026 03:36 PM (0N4FZ)

370 >>French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.


TBF - France still has their nuclear reactors, as far as I know. Of all the Eurofags, they can at least provide electricity for their people.

The rest of Europe...not so much.
Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:31 PM (TLp3A)

So the first step of Kier's "pretend I'm doing something Summit" is a statement that they can't force Iran to do anything. Things are going fine.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:36 PM (8avO+)

371 She'll be spending more time with her private sector.

Posted by: Breaking news at April 02, 2026 03:36 PM (2Ez/1)

372 Schwab informs me they are ready to trade crypto. Brave new world.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:37 PM (N8ZBc)

373
Here's the other defense:

Dr. Javaherian claimed she was a victim of fraud and that her NPI was stolen through HospiceMD — an electronic medical records and software platform — and that she had raised the alarm many times.

So the HospiceMD guy weighed in: HospiceMD does not manage individual user accounts, and it responds to all fraud allegations. HospiceMD hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing either.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:37 PM (n7rxJ)

374 Schwab informs me they are ready to trade crypto. Brave new world.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:37 PM (N8ZBc)

Now crypto is boring and conservative?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 03:37 PM (dK+Kv)

375 Oddly, I see a video clip on ewetub right now from Battleship New Jersey that they are test firing the guns for the first time since 1990. For some reason.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:18 PM


I still have a VHS tape of the Iraqis trying to surrender to a UAV that was directing gun fire from the NJ.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 03:37 PM (2WIwB)

376 The first knuckleball I ever saw make me literally laugh and guffaw my way to a called strike. It was coming at me with the seam like a smiling face, gently rocking from side to side.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:38 PM (4NO2D)

377 357 Hey! Has anyone heard the news? Bondi's out.😏
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons


Besties with Eric Swalwell evidently BUT, she was doing a great job!!!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:38 PM (abIsI)

378 11 JUST IN: 🇫🇷 French President Macron says any military operation to open the Strait of Hormuz would be unrealistic.

But hiding a first 'lady' with balls is easy?




Damnit. Ralphy, feeling much better came barreling down the 5 carpeted steps and wiped out. He's alright. Scared the hell out of me. I usually hold his collar as he's going down them but he was sleeping.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (Sco7b)

379 Upchuck 3 continues to Upchuck.

Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ndZc7)

380 376 The first knuckleball I ever saw make me literally laugh and guffaw my way to a called strike. It was coming at me with the seam like a smiling face, gently rocking from side to side.
------------------
The thing to worry about a floater is where it will end up.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (n17eQ)

381 Upchuck 3 continues to Upchuck.

Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ndZc7)

Afraid of being struck by lightning I gather.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (8avO+)

382 >>We're working on adding speed this year, and getting back/improving accuracy. He already whiffs solid hitters above his age with fastball/changeup. It's fun to watch.


Get a piece of plywood that is larger than the strike zone.

Drill several holes in it, bit enough for a Softball to pass through. Number them / Color them...whatever. Make the kid pitch to those holes until he can thread those needles at will.
Then rotate 90 degrees, rinse and repeat.

Repetition. It builds muscle memory.

Same approach as hitting off a tee.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (TLp3A)

383
Central District of California
Press Release
8 Arrested in Health Care Fraud Takedown, Including Owners of Hospices that Billed Taxpayers Millions of Dollars to Serve the ‘Dying’
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Under MEDICARE HOSPICE CARE FRAUD -
Gladwin Gill, a 66-year-old psychologist, and his wife, Amelou Gill, a 70-year-old registered nurse...

There's also several cases under Private Health Care Plan Fraud and Immigration Health Care Fraud

Posted by: L - No nic

================

So, Rob Bonta bravely jumps on the bandwagon, ready to take credit?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (n7rxJ)

384 Besties with Eric Swalwell evidently BUT, she was doing a great job!!!
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:38 PM (abIsI)
-----------

If this true (big if), how did those two become "friends".

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (G0vdT)

385 I bought a small amount of crypto in my investment account. I thought it would be a good inflation hedge but Trump tackled Bidenflation so...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

386 Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Why doesn't he just convert already?

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

387 Besties with Eric Swalwell evidently BUT, she was doing a great job!!!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:38 PM (abIsI)

Bondi was besties with swalwell? Seriously?? If true that is sooo uncool.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (snZF9)

388 Nood. Space.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (zZu0s)

389 A block in the Strait of Hormuz—a crucial artery for 20% of global oil—would most severely impact Asian economies due to high import dependency, particularly China, India, Japan, and South Korea. Pakistan and Bangladesh are also exceptionally vulnerable due to limited alternative energy sources, potentially forcing emergency measures. AI Overview, citing CNBC among other.

So not just China.

And Iran has been employing cluster bombs against Israel.

amnestyusa org, Israel

'Iran’s Missile Strike That Killed Nine Civilians ‘Must Be Investigated as a War Crime’ March 31, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (NFX2v)

390 "Now crypto is boring and conservative?"

I remember when BTC hit $8K, I said 'Welp, too late now to get on that Tulip Train.'

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (N8ZBc)

391 Anchor babies are FRAUD.

Yeah but the President's lawyer did a terrible job making his case, it was depressing. I predict a 7-2 loss for he constitution and America.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (El6/E)

392 Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Why doesn't he just convert already?
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

I think by rule the King must be CofE. Rumors that one was catholic set off a Revolution in 1688

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (8avO+)

393
If this true (big if), how did those two become "friends".
Posted by: WisRich


She had a thing for Fang?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 03:41 PM (abIsI)

394 Why doesn't he just convert already?
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM


He can't admit that he's already converted. He's the freaking head of the Gay Church of England.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (4NO2D)

395 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)

396
Anyway, I hope there's a few more of these late-night raids. That Gill couple in cuffs and PJs looking all stunned might scare a few people.

Better still if the FBI starts raiding the passive facilitators who failed to report these crimes, with a loud warning that if you know anything, you are legally obligated to speak up, and you could be jailed if you don't.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 03:43 PM (n7rxJ)

397 Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Why doesn't he just convert already?

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

The UK is done, over, shotski. A muslim cesspool island with a retarded king and a PM with a vag. A conquered, defeated, rotting corpse of a country. Its the end of the brits as we know it...and I feel fine.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (snZF9)

398 I'm going to cry.

Posted by: Nav Gewsom at April 02, 2026 03:46 PM (UjdFS)

399 French surrendering without a shot fired let's you know some things never do change.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 03:47 PM (n5tGW)

400 379 Upchuck 3 continues to Upchuck.

Report: King Charles won't issue an Easter message this year (he released one for Ramadan)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 03:39 PM (ndZc7)
He's out of the closet.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 03:48 PM (LHPAg)

401 > And didn't do much at all. Tankers are hard to take down...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 03:12 PM (XuXeR)

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

Posted by: Hard aground on Bligh Reef at April 02, 2026 03:50 PM (IG3/x)

402 Anyone have any two-seam fastball coaching tips?


Overhand 2 seam ain't a 3/4 2 seam, much less a sidearm 2 seam.

Posted by: MkY at April 02, 2026 03:59 PM (q6tQZ)

403 I've been doing HC fraud for almost 25 years, and since I'm almost 29, I started in my yute. Could tell crazy stories. Matter of fact, look up Acrotomophilia and Apotemnophilia and that was wrapped up in one of my cases.

Posted by: Fish at April 02, 2026 04:05 PM (FmCHY)

404 Anyone have any two-seam fastball coaching tips?

Yank down hard.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 02, 2026 04:14 PM (4NO2D)

405 Travel sports are an insane racket that destroy kids' bodies and parents' bank accounts, for no real reason.
Posted by: ballistic
----
Bank account, sorta. Body, no. The Army did a hell of a lot more damage in 20+ years to my lifer son's body than playing hockey in 4 states and Canada for 11.
Plus, he had a helluva good time, and I drank a lot of beer in Pizza parlors all over the west.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 04:18 PM (DAQKj)

406 A block in the Strait of Hormuz—a crucial artery for 20% of global oil—would most severely impact Asian economies due to high import dependency, particularly China, India, Japan, and South Korea. Pakistan and Bangladesh are also exceptionally vulnerable due to limited alternative energy sources, potentially forcing emergency measures. AI Overview, citing CNBC among other.
Posted by: L - No nic..
-----
Again.
Block oil and/or fuel exports, except to Japan and S. Korea.
US fuel prices plummet, European prices rocket.
Now, UK, France, Spain, etc. What are you going to do?

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 04:27 PM (DAQKj)

407 This just in! Francisco Franco is still dead! Updates at 11:00

Posted by: DBCooper at April 02, 2026 04:33 PM (/PTz1)

408 IIRC, the case worker when my brother went into hospice for COPD was 3 to 4 months, up to 6.

Posted by: Advo at April 02, 2026 04:50 PM (jO4mz)

409 After all the illegals in our country, this chronic fraud against us is my issue to fight for.
Every dollar, over a million, in my taxes, may have been stolen.
All wasted.
I am so angry I could punch a Californian.

Posted by: Elect me because i'm dyslexic and racist at April 02, 2026 09:22 PM (Or0UZ)

Breaking: Multiple Reports That Trump Has Told Pam Bondi That Her Time as AG Is Coming to an End

Update: She's been fired now?

Trump posted that Todd Blanche will be acting AG.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

The claim is that he is pre-firing her, I guess. Telling her to prepare her resume and make up a reason why she is voluntarily leaving the job.

Is this true? No idea, of course.

Poltiico:

Bondi on the brink?

By JACK BLANCHARD with DASHA BURNS


...

WHAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT: Dasha last night confirmed those buzzy NYT and CNN scoops that Pam Bondi will likely soon be OUT as attorney general.

Bondi beached: A person close to the White House tells Dasha that when Trump met EPA boss Lee Zeldin on Tuesday to discuss last year's California wildfires, Trump also discussed the potential of tapping him for the AG role. (CNN and the NYT last night both named Zeldin as the most likely successor.) A second person familiar with the situation tells Dasha that Bondi will be out imminently.

Epstein strikes again: Rumors of Bondi's departure are hardly new, but it seems the mood has shifted against her in recent days. The AG has been under pressure since last summer over her ill-fated handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files inquiry, with even close ally Susie Wiles admitting Bondi "completely whiffed" her response. Trump has also long been frustrated over the DOJ's failure to successfully prosecute his enemies, and readers will no doubt recall the infamous "Pam" message that Trump accidentally posted onto social media last year.

Zeld-IN? By contrast, Trump has repeatedly showered praise on Zeldin for his work at the EPA. Zeldin worked as a New York attorney in his 20s, and as a House representative during the first Trump administration became known for his hawkish support of Trump's various legal battles and pursuits.

Non-denial denial: A statement issued to CNN and the NYT shows Trump voicing personal support for Bondi. "Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job," the president said, which is hardly a guarantee of her future status. Bondi accompanied Trump to the Supreme Court yesterday morning and was in the audience for his address to the nation last night. Zeldin was also there.

The New York Post:

President Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday that she would be out as head of the Department of Justice, a source with knowledge of the conversation told The Post on Thursday.

Bondi was at the White House to attend Trump's address to the nation on the Iran war, and earlier had accompanied the president to the Supreme Court to watch oral arguments in a major birthright citizenship case.

Fox News said Trump will replace Bondi with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as the interim attorney general.

Trump is expected to soon make a formal announcement.

The White House did not directly address the report, but pointed The Post to a quote from the president praising Bondi.

So Fox is confirming it.

Unexpected, at least to me.

Update: Sorry to push unvetted info, but a commenter posted this and I'm going to repeat it even while declaring "I don't know if this is anywhere close to true."

Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI's efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.

I'm still trying to figure out where this comes from.

Update to last post: At an Easter event, Trump told Erika Kirk that she should "sue their asses," speaking about her professional defamers like low-IQ schizophrenic DEI podcaster Candace Owens.

Owens says that the only reason Erika Kirk would have to sue her would be that she is "making fun" of her "best friend's" grieving widow, and then says this proves that the "Israelis are in charge" and that Trump is now fully Jewish.

This is the woman the site's current Nazi Troll tells me I have to align with Because Reasons.

The Nazis defend her because she routinely says things like "the Israelis are totally in charge now" and "Trump is now fully Jewish." But when you object to Candace Owens telling lie after defamatory lie about a grieving widow who appears to be a nice normie mom, they always say the same thing: You're only against her defaming a grieving widow in the most evil and demonic way possible because you're obsessed with Israel.

No, Nazis. I condemn someone for telling countless vicious lies about a grieving widow -- and suggesting that her wheelchair-bound dying mother is faking for money and sympathy -- because these are inherently, on-their-face evil actions that any right-thinking moral person should condemn uniquivocally.

You, on the other hand, refuse to condemn these lies, because YOU are obsessed with Israel. You have too few prominent Nazi agitators to cut one loose just because she's been on a deranged campaign for almost a year to put Erika Kirk through her own conspiracy-theory Calvary. We don't condemn Candace Owens' breathtakingly evil defamations "because of Jews" -- but you sure as shit embrace this evil because of Jews.

So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:12 PM




Comments

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1 St?

Posted by: Clay at April 02, 2026 01:12 PM (sWdhC)

2 Nood Bondi > Nude Bondi

Take my mancard if you must

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

3 The good thing about reposting a wall of text is you can add paragraph spacers:

Bondi was friends with Ben Crump and helped sink the country into racial despair for Little Trayvon. Bad on guns too.

Not sure what part she played in the Epstein Op that was intended to overshadow Trump's Third Term and take him down for good.

A real useless waste of space and that's the charitable read. If she's gone good riddance but I'm not sure she's gone.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (kNAyK)

4 See the reason Candace Owens turned out batnuts is because she refused my invitation to sit on my face and instead married a british mimbo

Im not even convinced the kids they have are sired by him, theres probably some time traveling Paolo in the mix somewhere porking her so she can have the child that will eventually lead the resistance against the ChatGPT powered terminators in 2065

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (REq0p)

5 Telling her to prepare her resume and make up a reason why she is voluntarily leaving the job.

You don't need a resume to start an OF account...

Posted by: Soon at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (ycI94)

6 Hey. Let's see YOU run a cabinet level department from the Fox News green room!

Posted by: Pam Blondi at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (2Ez/1)

7 So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.
=========================
The return of courtesy to civil discourse!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (pfOyM)

8 Passed through the thoroughly corrupt senate without issue. Never gone after by the MSM like the rabid dogs they are. Yeah, she sucks. Bad choice

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (abIsI)

9 The Bondi firing still isn't official as far as I can tell...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (xT8gx)

10 Im not even convinced the kids they have are sired by him, theres probably some time traveling Paolo in the mix somewhere porking her so she can have the child that will eventually lead the resistance against the ChatGPT powered terminators in 2065


seems legit

also not buying the Catholic thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (j+aD2)

11 Bad on guns too.

*********************

That really pissed a lot of people off, especially the ones like me rooting for Gaetz

Then again the last I heard of Gaetz he was discussing how humans were procreating with aliens to crfeate hybrids... so.... yeah

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:16 PM (REq0p)

12 I find it more interesting that the source was this "Attorney General Pam Bondi has been fired, a senior administration official and a source familiar with the matter told NBC News."

Sounds like if she is fired (and I still doubt on a single source), then a 2nd person will be quickly following her out the door for the leak...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:16 PM (tOcjL)

13 This is the woman the site's current Nazi Troll tells me I have to align with Because Reasons.

If you don't hate Jews, then you ain't Black! Or, something...

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 02, 2026 01:16 PM (ycI94)

14 There is a world that exists and will continue to exist regardless of who says what about it.

Reality is not a team sport.


This is probably hitting close to home for Trump - remember he was arguing for libel reform a while back.

He is generally right, but how you would actually encode this in law to be more restrictive of outright lying about public figures without giving a Dem administration another tool to arrest dissidents would be hard to do.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (sKqQm)

15 In truth I don’t give a damn about Bondi, but IF she is indeed fired I would have waited until mid November. It just supplies fodder for the Left and also limits any other personnel moves Trump might need to make in the near future. Our side is treading very close to the “ complete disarray” attack that the Dems would love to make. Hell, they might use that anyway

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (pDt9x)

16 The Blade is available to serve as AG. Just saying ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

17 You don't need a resume to start an OF account...
Posted by: Soon


fap fap fap

Posted by: Bunion Lover at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (abIsI)

18 Bondi out?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (znfsz)

19 It is being confirmed as we speak. I like her loyalty , as I said. The birthright case probably sunk her.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3)

20 Re: Pam Bondi- I think its time for a replacement

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (lCppi)

21 Don't understand what she did wrong or how she crossed Trump. But if Trump wants her gone you know it is for a good reason.

Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (sgrzZ)

22 Do these Boobs make me look fat?

Posted by: BRYAN NOEM at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (1d+x4)

23 Sounds like if she is fired (and I still doubt on a single source), then a 2nd person will be quickly following her out the door for the leak...


well, good.

also I like Zeldin a LOT. hopefully he's good at wrangling traitors bc I think the DOJ is a real f*cking problem

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

24 also not buying the Catholic thing Posted by: BlackOrchid

*********************

yeah she leans into that VERY hard that makes the "conversion" all the more suspicious

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (REq0p)

25 I'm in the tiny minority with no opinion one way or t'other on rumored Bondi firing.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc)

26 There is a world that exists and will continue to exist regardless of who says what about it.

Reality is not a team sport.


Oops, meant to copy the next about Trump telling Mrs Kirk to sue the nutters

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

27 The Bondi firing still isn't official as far as I can tell...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (xT8gx)


Sources familiar with the matter tell me that it'll happen any second. Any second... any second...

Multiple news agencies are reporting that another news agency heard that a reporter was told by an anonymous source that the firing is imminent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (ExV1e)

28 19 It is being confirmed as we speak. I like her loyalty , as I said. The birthright case probably sunk her.


yeah that's my guess

his presence yesterday was like, a final test case for this. clearly this was a tough firing for him.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

29 Noem out, Bondi out, and rumors that Gabbard might be out.

Hmmm. Not the "killers" he was hoping for.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (G0vdT)

30 ”Pay for Play” Pam has been messing up since the beginning. Why is anyone surprised? Has not help the Trump supporters, unless they have $$$, Has helped Pfizer - who employed her and Susie.

Posted by: MacArch at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (D3bzn)

31 I do not trust "sources" and they're almost always bs re: Trump but I would say probably gone.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (kNAyK)

32 Pam Bondi...you are the weakest link. GOOD-BYE!

Posted by: JTSmith at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (+Jrdm)

33 I like King Harv's new look. Clintesque.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

34 I like the nickname "Adolf Fuentes"

One of those we were told we absolutely must pay attention to 'cause "he has lots of followers!"

That the X update showed to be almost exclusively over-seas ....
Just like Candace Ovens.
And Tucker Qatar'lson.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (HXT0k)

35 Bondi beached:

Cute.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

36 23 Sounds like if she is fired (and I still doubt on a single source), then a 2nd person will be quickly following her out the door for the leak...


well, good.

also I like Zeldin a LOT. hopefully he's good at wrangling traitors bc I think the DOJ is a real f*cking problem
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (j+aD2)

If he needs confirming, it won't happen...

If he can do a Rubio thing and lead 2 things at once or avoid confirm b/c he was already confirmed, then it can...

Dems will want DOJ in disarray for the fall elections (and even the VA one in 19 days)...no way will they do a fast confirm for anyone...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:19 PM (tOcjL)

37 Noem out, Bondi out, and rumors that Gabbard might be out.

Hmmm. Not the "killers" he was hoping for.


Hey I know a little about this same sort of problem...

Posted by: Abe Lincoln at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm)

38 Candyass Owens never disappoints.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (wtvvX)

39 Trump said Sen Hoeven is his "good friend" at some conference yesterday. Hoeven was seen the other day gaveling in and out of a 30 second session to keep the Senate from going into recess despite the Senate in the midst of a 2 week vacation. Any chance this "good friend" will defy Thune and the GOPe leadership and not gavel in a session so Trump can get a recess appointment in to replace Bondi?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (Dv3i1)

40 Hmmm. Not the "killers" he was hoping for.


not only "not killers" but just didn't have the stamina/quick thinking

I'm not saying it's a gender thing but ...

I'm not NOT saying that lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (j+aD2)

41 >>So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.


VDH was just about nut
...and Ace had to end it by being polite.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (TLp3A)

42 Wow, they screwed up this announcement. It may not have been a malicious leak, just a "hey, with Pam's leaving, can I get her Stanley Cup" sort of email.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (qwx/I)

43 If I did this, HR would be up my ass.

Adverse employment decisions are never leaked publicly.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (RIvkX)

44 Anything short of Genghis Kahn will be insufficient.

Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (oecOY)

45 6 Hey. Let's see YOU run a cabinet level department from the Fox News green room!
Posted by: Pam Blondi

I... I must tell you the truth, Blondi. In my place, you would do the same thing. It's all over for you now. There's nothing anyone can do any more...I'll tell you one thing, Blondi. If I knew that my last hour had come, I swear, in my place... in your place I would do the same thing. I would tell about the gold. Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave.

Posted by: Tuco at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (ycI94)

46 I like the nickname "Adolf Fuentes"/i]

Lil Nicky's dream it to find out in person exactly how many balls Schicklegruber actually has

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

47 44 Anything short of Genghis Kahn will be insufficient.
Posted by: fd at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (oecOY)

And THAT’S a problem, right there.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (pDt9x)

48 The Epstein thing was/is a minefield. If Iran goes south Hegseth will be next. Who knows if this is the right move AT THIS TIME?
It looking rather chaotic. I don’t know who has the president’s ear. I was hoping that Susie Wiles would have more of a calming influence on President Trump. I would think the focus would be on the midterms.

Posted by: Unkaren at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (OTOad)

49 Sorry she's gone, I always had a lot of respect for her torso.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (UjdFS)

50 Chicago is out?!!

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (QCIad)

51 Epstein

It is all EPSTEIN

Posted by: Paul at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (REhQ3)

52 Any second... any second..."

Manny Moto....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (XuXeR)

53 Candace Owens' re-litigating and investigating the very biased Netflix faux-umentary Making a Murderer was great, and started me listening to her in her DW days.

I stayed on board for a bit of her Macron-TrannyWife investigation, but I had to quit when I ran out of red yarn.

The Charlie and Erica Kirk stuff is just beyond the pale.

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (lCppi)

54 hmm...spicy today !

re: bondi, i'm rather surprised it took so long to replace her. she's been an extremely weak link since day 1, and her incomprehensibly clumsy handling of the epstein documentary rollout caused permanent damage to trump's electoral coalition that never has been nor can be ameliorated. while i don't really care that much about trump's coalition, her oversight, such as it was, of the attempted lawfare-vengeance prosecutions of e.g. letitia james succeeded at nothing more than making a martyr of some of the most reprehensible legal officers in the country.

the woman is a empty-bleached-headed amateur and should never have been elevated to her position, much less tolerated for so long.

to tie her foibles in to the spice, the epstein debacle unquestionably provided prefidious fifth-column types with ample ammunition for their divisive conspiracy mongering.

Posted by: pH at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (J9hPc)

55 The files are on her desk.

Posted by: She said so at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (2Ez/1)

56
Trump is going to need a wartime consigliere after the midterms.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (IifOV)

57 Bondi was friends with Ben Crump and helped sink the country into racial despair for Little Trayvon. Bad on guns too.

Not sure what part she played in the Epstein Op that was intended to overshadow Trump's Third Term and take him down for good.

A real useless waste of space and that's the charitable read. If she's gone good riddance but I'm not sure she's gone.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (kNAyK

You are, if anything, bring too kind to Bondi. . Trump may yet pull off an electoral miracle but he had no, zero, less than zero chance of surviving the impact of the mid term elections because of Bondi’s failure to prosecute obvious traitors and seditionists.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (cpNfP)

58 Trump posted that Todd Blanche will be acting AG.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (2UnvF)

59 You are leaving the AG’s office for medical reasons, understand???

Posted by: How it would be done in the Second World at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (E6xSb)

60 I did not know Bondi in college, but I have a load of friends who were friends with her. Some of those friends are democrat ambulance chasers so naturally they are dismissive of her as AG but I think they are still friendly with her. As we all know democrats never let friendship get in the way of politics.

I have no other knowledge of her other than that. I don't think she is incompetent but maybe just not ready for prime time. She was kinda hot in college, tho.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (+48wn)

61 Yes, yes, I would. I would tell the name on the grave."

You dig.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (XuXeR)

62 truth I don’t give a damn about Bondi, but IF she is indeed fired I would have waited until mid November.
--------

What if she's a disloyal c-word?

More to the point the media and general population can only focus on one thing at a time. Trump knows how to move a needle and make the media play a tune.

At worst it dilutes Iran as the Only Story In The Room as it now moves to a phase of wrapping up in our favor anyway. This will let "Iran" reset in a new narrative frame of Trump's choosing.

If in fact the firing has happened now.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (kNAyK)

63 >>If Iran goes south Hegseth will be next.


No. Hegseth isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (TLp3A)

64 It is being confirmed as we speak. I like her loyalty , as I said. The birthright case probably sunk her.

1. Confirmed by who?
2. If it was the birthright case, why not fire the Solicitor General? Bondi didn't argue the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

65 If only we had Brian "Sex Machine" Stelter to give us reliable sources.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (0sNs1)

66 Is this about us?

Posted by: prefidious fifth-column types at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)

67 Tod Blanche...needs to go.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (GD0B3)

68 Bondi sucks horribly, don't get me wrong - whoever the Senate confirms as her replacement will also be worse.

None of it matters. You could resurrect Daniel Webster and make him AG. Wouldn't make a lick of difference. He may have beat Satan, but he wouldn't beat the DoJ or the federal judiciary - they run this country, not the other way around.

It's why I haven't gotten worked up about her, and won't about her successor. Trump should just leave it vacant. For him, an AG is about as useful as naming a Secretary of Windmill-Tilting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (BI5O2)

69 “…and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.”

I laughed out loud here. Angry Ace is Best Ace.

Posted by: The Dog at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (XodLO)

70 In Trump fashion, Ace needs his last sentence to read “thank you for your attention to this matter “

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (qBdHI)

71 Prefidiousness > Postfidiousness.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (N8ZBc)

72 Now that many of you got your wish…

Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?

(Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it)

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (E6xSb)

73 The Daily Mail is 'reporting' that the firing is a done deal.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (0sNs1)

74 Well, Trump can always replace her with Rubio. I hear he needs another job.

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

75 Update: Sorry to push unvetted info, but a commenter posted this and I'm going to repeat it even while declaring "I don't know if this is anywhere close to true."


Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI�s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.
I'm still trying to figure out where this comes from.
_______

Huh? Of all the reasons Trump could have for firing her, that seems the least likely -- both that she would do that (leak to Fartswell?) and that Trump would fire her over it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

76 Trump said she's transitioning to a "much needed and important job in the private sector."

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (2UnvF)

77 None of it matters. You could resurrect Daniel Webster and make him AG. Wouldn't make a lick of difference. He may have beat Satan, but he wouldn't beat the DoJ or the federal judiciary - they run this country, not the other way around.


that much is clear

sigh

soviet

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

78 I'm guessing Bondi's handling of the Epstein files, particularly the ridiculous way she came out a few days after being confirmed with show and tell on the files and then did nothing for months, allowing the Dems to create this stupid myth that Trump is a pedo and is blocking the files release all last fall and winter because he is in it earned her many demerits in Trump's world. Additionally, she has the DOJ moving at a snail's pace on Trump's goal of charging people who attempted to send him to prison. Trumps had enough incompetent lawyers that having one at the top of his DOJ is not in his interest.

Posted by: jen the original at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (9wVPs)

79 I was hoping that Susie Wiles would have more of a calming influence on President Trump. I would think the focus would be on the midterms.
Posted by: Unkaren at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (OTOad)

He seems very calm. He's consistent- he always gives people a chance to do well, but won't tolerate mediocrity. I appreciate that.

Posted by: LASue at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (lCppi)

80 the woman is a empty-bleached-headed amateur and should never have been elevated to her position

*********************

She's a dime a dozen at my company, which if you can believe it, is being horribly mismanaged to the ground due to all the DEI promotions of women because girl power rah rah rah

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (REq0p)

81 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?


Ken Paxton

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

82 She gone

Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (sgrzZ)

83 Deportations will take too long.

Now, wait, hear me out ...

Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (0sNs1)

84 Second look at Matt "X-Files rip-off" Gaetz?

LOL

Roll out the flaming clown car, Trump

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (HXT0k)

85 Yep...

"Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,' Trump wrote on Truth Social. 'Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900.'

'We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.'

Trump said that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney general until a permanent nominee is picked. "

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (GD0B3)

86 If Bondi does get fired, can we get the Rubio meme dressed as Bondi where he is assigned as the AG?

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (qOHHe)

87 Huh? Of all the reasons Trump could have for firing her, that seems the least likely -- both that she would do that (leak to Fartswell?) and that Trump would fire her over it.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at

Stray voltage. Just a way to get something out there to bat around. Doesn't have to be his reason, it just has to be something to talk about. And shit about Democrats is something to talk about.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (kNAyK)

88 81 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?


Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

You honestly think he would be confirmed?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (pDt9x)

89 Trump posted that Todd Blanche will be acting AG.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (2UnvF)


I'm throwing down my marker that Todd Blanche will not accomplish any more than Bondi.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (ExV1e)

90 56
Trump is going to need a wartime consigliere after the midterms.
Posted by: Frank Barone

He needs one now, to whip the rest of the GOPe into shape so they don't get slaughtered in the midterms...which is what they're doing their best to achieve without making it too obvious. I shared a link earlier this week that showed this midterm has the most incumbent Republican not running for reelection since the Great Depression.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (ycI94)

91 So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.
======

*takes notes*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (RIvkX)

92 19 It is being confirmed as we speak. I like her loyalty , as I said. The birthright case probably sunk her.
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:17 PM (GD0B3)

I didn’t realize it was decided. Who wrote the majority opinion?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (E6xSb)

93

He's pushing out the two bimbos, let's be honest about it, and putting in two dudes.

Win win.


Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (et1vG)

94 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?
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Y Dice

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (kNAyK)

95 IF true, I'm ok with it... I just thought she was an OK... my feeling on her was starting out 100% and then dropping at a 10 degree angle. Just no urgent enough to me even though I know she has to go through everything legally..... unlike say a dem AG.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (n5tGW)

96 Chicks man.

Posted by: eleven at April 02, 2026 01:27 PM (aTgV0)

97 Trump said that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as acting attorney general until a permanent nominee is picked. "
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (GD0B3)

Well, that is how you make it worse...he's terrible and now we're stuck with him probably through midterms...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (tOcjL)

98 Blanche will be there until Zeldin is confirmed. Then Blanche will be gone. Zeldin needs his own people.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (GD0B3)

99 Leak Check

Trump either told everybody but Blondie that she is getting canned or they just caught a mole.
Why? Bad timing. Trump already knows any AG is worthlese.

Posted by: Operator Error at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (Li9FJ)

100 None of it matters. You could resurrect Daniel Webster and make him AG. Wouldn't make a lick of difference. He may have beat Satan, but he wouldn't beat the DoJ or the federal judiciary - they run this country, not the other way around.

===

that much is clear

sigh

soviet
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM


Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (0sNs1)

101 I've read elsewhere that she's already gone.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (V362x)

102 Meh, Owens always had a track record that said she was a money/fame chaser. If she said useful things she was useful. If not, away with her. And being aligned with Israel is a big plus. They generally win, and their interests and US interests dont conflict hardly at all. And Bondi: seems like there is an awful lot of provable legal issues that could be used on the enemies that never seem to go past press releases. Maybe someone else would DO something.

Posted by: Azjaeger at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (PUrHv)

103 which is what they're doing their best to achieve without making it too obvious

**********************

They seem to be making it REALLY obvious to me at least

I loathe these RINO scum sucking pigs

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (REq0p)

104 88 81 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?


Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

You honestly think he would be confirmed?
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (pDt9x)

If Gaetz wasn't, Paxton doesn't have a chance in hell...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (tOcjL)

105 Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

I’d be good with that if he weren’t running for Senate. Cornyn MUST go and that doesn’t mean replacing him with that creep Talarico.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (E6xSb)

106 Is it ok to hate Owens and Mark Levin.

Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (cpys8)

107 "Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?"

I'd decline the appointment, so that narrows it down a bit.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)

108 I saw Cleopatra Jones last night. They remastered it onto blu-ray. While it's considered a "blaxploitation" flick, it's quite tame by standards of the genre. Mostly comic violence, very little blood or gore, and no sex or nudity -- in fact, the heroine barely shows any skin at all, not even arms or legs.

It's not bad, but if you're gonna go exploitation, don't ya go exploitation? Cleo herself is stunning to behold, a statuesque Amazon dressed in the finest wardrobe this side of fashion week in Milan. Piper could do a whole post on her fashion. She changes outfits and hairstyles more than she does any actual police work.

Bonus: Shelley Winters (!) as a violent, lecherous lesbian drug lord who spends more time beating up on her henchmen than she does the good guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

109 Something that really sucks lately is I leave out letters to words in my typing...ugh... blog needs more math.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (n5tGW)

110 Does Dasha Burns have a brother named Richard?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (cWLG3)

111 I'm in the tiny minority with no opinion one way or t'other on rumored Bondi firing.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:18 PM (N8ZBc)

I am of the opinion that she should show us her tits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

112 yes but the stock market? line goes up!

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (jGJov)

113 Jay Sekulow.

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (cTDYk)

114 Any word on which "celebrity influencer" will take her place?

Posted by: Lurkyloo at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (ort2b)

115 What does Ace call it -- a "Limited Hangout?"

Leaks to the NYT primarily come from the CIA and other Deep State Traitors:

"According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is 'spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further'."

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (nCGhB)

116 Is there an unrepentant asshole that would ruthlessly fill this position?

Someone out for Deep State blood?

That just wants to drag people down and destroy their entire lives until they kill themselves?

Monster or LinkedIn?

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

117 Well, fuck.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (2UnvF)

118 Meh, Owens always had a track record that said she was a money/fame chaser.

***************

I dropped off when she got fired from Daily Wire and then asked people to send her money, despite being married to a multimillionaire and having millions of her own

Child, WTF do you need more money for?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (REq0p)

119 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?

Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

You honestly think he would be confirmed?
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM


Heck, *I'd* vote for him.

Posted by: John Cornyn (Rino-TX) at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (0sNs1)

120 They seem to be making it REALLY obvious to me at least

I loathe these RINO scum sucking pigs
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (REq0p)

Yes, incumbent Rs are throwing the midterms...thus, the retirements and the inaction. Johnson is trying, but even he threw in his cards yesterday.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (tOcjL)

121 "Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?"

I'd decline the appointment, so that narrows it down a bit.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)

Now I am out of ideas.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)

122 But when you object to Candace Owens telling lie after defamatory lie about a grieving widow who appears to be a nice normie mom, they always say the same thing: You're only against her defaming a grieving widow in the most evil and demonic way possible because you're obsessed with Israel.

Just like pointing out that an illegal alien from Me-Hee-Co murdered little girls and being called a xenophobic notsee fascist bigot...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (ynpvh)

123 I don't like Todd Blanche and I don't even know why... Pam Bondi is much better looking for one thing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (xT8gx)

124 "Cleo herself is stunning to behold, a statuesque Amazon"

She cut one of her tits off??

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (N8ZBc)

125 I'll mention it again; Trump's a results orientated guy. Maybe Bondi wasn't getting the results he thought she should be able to get.

He's fired people for less.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (AkEZC)

126 None of it matters. You could resurrect Daniel Webster and make him AG. Wouldn't make a lick of difference. He may have beat Satan, but he wouldn't beat the DoJ or the federal judiciary - they run this country, not the other way around.

It's why I haven't gotten worked up about her, and won't about her successor. Trump should just leave it vacant. For him, an AG is about as useful as naming a Secretary of Windmill-Tilting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:24 PM (BI5O2)


Nevertheless, there are multiple commentors who're hip deep in semen now since they've been edging over her being fired since she was confirmed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

127 63 >>If Iran goes south Hegseth will be next.


No. Hegseth isn't going anywhere.
Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (TLp3A)
-----------

Trump loves the military but he'll need a fall guy if Iran goes south as mentioned above. That's Hegseth.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (G0vdT)

128 the reason why Owens was pointed at Mrs Kirk is because the left wants to stop talking about a leftwing tranny chaser shooting Charlie Kirk and wants to talk about ANYTHING else.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (sKqQm)

129 Is it ok to hate Owens and Mark Levin.

Yes! And also to hate Chuck Schumer more.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

130 OK, I'll do it. What the hell, sleeping's for fags.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (2UnvF)

131 "I am of the opinion that she should show us her tits."

I can go along with that. I'd buy that for a dollar.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (N8ZBc)

132 I am of the opinion that she should show us her tits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

Evergreen

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (kNAyK)

133 >>Trump loves the military but he'll need a fall guy if Iran goes south as mentioned above. That's Hegseth.


I'll take any bets on this one.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (TLp3A)

134 I am wondering who the hell Todd Blanche is, anyway? Valet at the Whitehouse Parking garage?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (pDt9x)

135 Nevertheless, there are multiple commentors who're hip deep in semen now since they've been edging over her being fired since she was confirmed.

Sounds like a sticky situation

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (sKqQm)

136 Between this and Trump saying 2-3 weeks of military action left against Iran.........I hope the wheels aren't coming off. I don't know about anyone else but I'm surprised he said that. I don't buy 2-3 weeks. 2-3 more months......yes.

Posted by: JROD at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (IlL6s)

137 Maybe Pam's hubby is a cross dresser too

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (rbvCR)

138 Not sure what her exact words were, but it was something like - I have the Epstein file on my desk, gonna get right on it. Didn't make much sense at the time, and then it took a literal act of Congress to get DoJ to release. She didn't strike me as being smart enough to wrangle a bunch of mostly hostile lawyers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (Dv3i1)

139 None of it matters. You could resurrect Daniel Webster and make him AG. Wouldn't make a lick of difference. He may have beat Satan, but he wouldn't beat the DoJ or the federal judiciary - they run this country, not the other way around.

I don't think Emmanuel Lewis has any law enforcement or legal experience?

Posted by: Confused Moron at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (ycI94)

140 120 They seem to be making it REALLY obvious to me at least

I loathe these RINO scum sucking pigs
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:28 PM (REq0p)

Yes, incumbent Rs are throwing the midterms...thus, the retirements and the inaction. Johnson is trying, but even he threw in his cards yesterday.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (tOcjL)

RINO scum that suck pigs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

141 Well, Ed Meese is still around, so maybe a 2nd look at him. He knows his way around Iranian-Israel relations.

Come to think of it, so is James Baker. Man, here's to clean living!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (qwx/I)

142 Some point to her mal-handling of the Epstein files.

I think the worst damage she's done is all the goofy-ass civil lawsuits.

Like "We're SUING the state of Maine to stop transgender men in women's sports!"

Just ... just f'ing stop: It's embarrassing that you think we are stupid enough to believe that's anything but pointless theater.

oh no! a civil lawsuit! in a deep blue state! with deep blue judges! Gosh, I bet they are real scared now!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (HXT0k)

143 Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)


1. That would leave Cornyn in the Senate.
2. He would never be confirmed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (ExV1e)

144 "So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you."

Ace, I think the modern terminology is, "Go seek healthcare in Canada."

Posted by: tankdemon at April 02, 2026 01:33 PM (f67+3)

145 Wait, is he nominating Blanche or is Blanche there temporarily ??

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:33 PM (GD0B3)

146 Nevertheless, there are multiple commentors who're hip deep in semen now since they've been edging over her being fired since she was confirmed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM


For the record, I am not one of them.

Posted by: Peter North, proud Canadian and irregular AoSHQ commenter at April 02, 2026 01:33 PM (0sNs1)

147 Noem out, Bondi out, and rumors that Gabbard might be out.

Hmmm. Not the "killers" he was hoping for.
Posted by: WisRich


Not the best judge of women is he?
Or maybe it is just him?


But he will always have Hegseth and Rubio.
No homo though.

Posted by: Operator Error at April 02, 2026 01:33 PM (Li9FJ)

148 Nevertheless, there are multiple commentors who're hip deep in semen now since they've been edging over her being fired since she was confirmed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (ExV1e)

Yes, they tend to all be male commentors who believe only males should hold positions in Trump's inner circle...and that feeling and look will continue biting R's in the butt in the midterms.

Dudes will jack off for this, and then not show to vote, while women will be pissed and vote in presidential elections numbers. And we'll have last year's VA results nationwide...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (tOcjL)

149 Is it ok to hate Candace, Mark Levin AND Megyn Kelly ?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (4KUe5)

150 Nostalgia notice. Read no further to avoid boomer jetsam.

Drew Pearson called it The Washington Merry Go Round.

Ready for Trivial Pursuit go forward, Peachfuzz, prepared to win a bar bet.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (YlWIZ)

151 Nevertheless, there are multiple commentors who're hip deep in semen
-------

Aka "Thursday"

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (kNAyK)

152 Fuckin Todd.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (2UnvF)

153 Trump loves the military but he'll need a fall guy if Iran goes south as mentioned above. That's Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (G0vdT)

If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?? Ain't gonna happen. Iran is so far north at this point, south just isn't a possibility

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (xT8gx)

154 108 I saw Cleopatra Jones last night. They remastered it onto blu-ray. While it's considered a "blaxploitation" flick, it's quite tame by standards of the genre.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

"Undercover Brother" with Billie Dee Williams.

Another classic that could not be made today.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (Y8DZL)

155 Blanche spent a few years defending Trump and others from Russiagate charges - likely at a lot of personal cost.

So I believe he's loyal. Competent? Well, I guess we get to see now don't we?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

156 143 Ken Paxton
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (j+aD2)

1. That would leave Cornyn in the Senate.
2. He would never be confirmed.


I'm saying our best option is a deal to let Cornyn keep his seat that gets Paxton confirmed to lead DOJ

which .. yeah that sucks for TX

but mayyyyyybe Ken could wrangle the demons in the DOJ

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (j+aD2)

157 Is there an unrepentant asshole that would ruthlessly fill this position?

Someone out for Deep State blood?

That just wants to drag people down and destroy their entire lives until they kill themselves?

Monster or LinkedIn?
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)
---
Probably quite a few. But none of them will ever pass Senate confirmation, which is all that matters.

The Senate--being a hivemind when it comes to protecting their own interests--does not want ANYONE probing their allies' affairs or prosecuting anyone who is filling their personal coffers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (ESVrU)

158 Just last week Trump praised Tulsi Gabbard.
She is not leaving.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (4KUe5)

159 "So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you."

Touched by some spirit, with please and thank you as that more gentle touch.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

160 136 Between this and Trump saying 2-3 weeks of military action left against Iran.........I hope the wheels aren't coming off. I don't know about anyone else but I'm surprised he said that. I don't buy 2-3 weeks. 2-3 more months......yes.
Posted by: JROD at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM (IlL6s)

It was an error. Never give a firm ending timeline in a war til you end it.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (tOcjL)

161 I do recall that Trump recently assigned someone to investigate ActBlue, a job he had previously given to Pam

Looks like she didn't produce results

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (ZxPkt)

162 Just last week Trump praised Tulsi Gabbard.
She is not leaving.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (4KUe5)

she is. you can take it to the bank.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (GD0B3)

163 9 Is it ok to hate Candace, Mark Levin AND Megyn Kelly ?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (4KUe5)

Only hate sin and the devil.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (kNAyK)

164 Man, here's to clean living!
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 01:32 PM


Clean livin', AND Texas wimmen!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (0sNs1)

165 If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?? Ain't gonna happen. Iran is so far north at this point, south just isn't a possibility


agree

AND

Hegseth is kicking ass at the DOW

no worries at all there

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (j+aD2)

166 Just let Marco be acting AG and let the best meme ever continue...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (xT8gx)

167 telling countless vicious lies about a grieving widow -- and suggesting that her wheelchair-bound dying mother is faking for money and sympathy --

O.O

THAT B*TCH SAID WHAT NOW?!

Posted by: pookysgirl, more than irate at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (Wt5PA)

168 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (7Q7Ca)

169 But he will always have Hegseth and Rubio.
No homo though.
Posted by: Operator Error

Bessent is openly gay.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (Y8DZL)

170 144 LOL

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (N8ZBc)

171
I'm not doing anything. I won't recuse myself this time. I swear.

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (IifOV)

172 You are, if anything, bring too kind to Bondi. . Trump may yet pull off an electoral miracle but he had no, zero, less than zero chance of surviving the impact of the mid term elections because of Bondi’s failure to prosecute obvious traitors and seditionists.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (cpNfP)

Yup. Its been a year. The fields of the impaled should have been filled with sun bleached desiccated carcasses of traitors and seditionists that would have been set ablaze during the upcoming 4th of july celebration of our 250 years of America. Because of her inaction were stuck with sparklers. She fucked up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (snZF9)

173 I'm in the tiny minority with no opinion one way or t'other on rumored Bondi firing.

Posted by: gp

I am of the opinion that she should show us her tits.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

NOW we're getting somewhere.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (UjdFS)

174 Is there an unrepentant asshole that would ruthlessly fill this position?

Someone out for Deep State blood?

That just wants to drag people down and destroy their entire lives until they kill themselves?

Monster or LinkedIn?
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)


That's what so many people don't get. The AG wasn't the problem. The traitors in the DOJ are a problem. The corrupt judiciary is a problem. The Senate refusing to confirm AUSAs is a problem. It doesn't matter who you make AG. They cannot act like Merrick Garland because the judges won't let a Republican break the law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)

175 at the last Cabinet meeting (where Gabbard was not...) Trump called Bondi "My Friend". Means nothing.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (GD0B3)

176 This is the woman the site's current Nazi Troll tells me I have to align with Because Reasons.


But she's a Catholic with Kids, Ace..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (7Q7Ca)

177 Ah, Pam Bondi. Another great Trump hire!

Posted by: UA113 at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (cz34i)

178
I don't think Emmanuel Lewis has any law enforcement or legal experience?
Posted by: Confused Moron


Is he the one who wrote the dictionary?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (Cqx++)

179 I would be happy with Kurt Schlicter, at DoJ, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (4KUe5)

180 Could this have anything to do with how well the government Solicitor General (DoJ) presented the birth right case to the Supreme Court yesterday? PDJT was in the house.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (y7SJC)

181 Non-denial denial: A statement issued to CNN and the NYT shows Trump voicing personal support for Bondi. "Attorney General Pam Bondi is a wonderful person and she is doing a good job," the president said, which is hardly a guarantee of her future status.

----
The infamous vote of confidence in a beleaguered head coach. Translation: Don't lose another game.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (zafwz)

182 "and then says this proves that the 'Israelis are in charge'
and that Trump is now fully Jewish."

Breaking a promise to his voters by getting into a war he clearly has no idea what the fuck he's doing in, a war that will destroy the world economy, his Presidency, and the GOP's viability indefinitely, all for the benefit of Israel, that proves Trump is now fully Jewish. No need to overthink this.

Posted by: Israel Is Always Right at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (VCSmN)

183 Smart money is on Bondi's husband being a furry. Living at Disney's Animal Kingdom in the same cage as Lyndsey Graham.

Posted by: Sweetie at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (DePyg)

184 Hip deep?

Please, we're better than that. We use socks!

Posted by: J. Random 'Ron at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (CenVr)

185 The coolest thing about Daniel Webster is his portraits. He looks like a man who never laughed even as a baby.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)

186 So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you for your attention to this matter.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:12 PM



Fixt for hilarity. No......not that Baldwin c*nt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (7Q7Ca)

187 >>>Is there an unrepentant asshole that would ruthlessly fill this position?

this senate won't even let the president from their own party have recess appointments -- they would never actually confirm someone like that

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (jGJov)

188 Good to have Aunt Pam back here in Florida

Posted by: Trayvon Martin at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (Y1sOo)

189 Does Dasha Burns have a brother named Richard?

No, I'm the only brother she has.

Posted by: PETER BURNS at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (1d+x4)

190 Following news that President Trump fired her as Attorney General on April 2, 2026, Representative Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, stated that Bondi is still "legally obligated to appear before our committee under oath" on April 14, 2026, to answer questions regarding the handling of Epstein files.

NY Times, 14 minutes ago ☠

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (NFX2v)

191 Is it ok to hate Owens and Mark Levin.
Posted by: Resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (cpys


Mark Levin is the heart and soul of our country, and his word is not law, but it is fully in alignment with the basic constitutional understanding we have evolved to as of today, and is concordant with other deeply masculine and hearty conservative thinkers like Lindsay Graham, who after all is one of the true powers of the modern Senate.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (rbvCR)

192 Willow'd:

>> 83 What I have learned over the past couple years is that everyone in the social media/podcast space eventually turns on everyone who they once promoted or platformed. Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see seems to be a good rule to follow.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (QaH55)


"The strangers in this town
They raise you up just to cut you down"

The Lumineers - Angela - Live at iHeart Radio 2016
https://youtu.be/jY7qtFnWKGA

Posted by: SciVo at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (Sy6m/)

193
I am of the opinion that she should show us her tits.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......



"Show bobs and vagene!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (7Q7Ca)

194 >>If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?


Exactly. Iran is done as we knew it.

BRICS is done.

And, all the while, we are pulling our punches.
The Globe just got a real time lesson in Military Capability that will send China back to the drawing board for another decade.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (TLp3A)

195 DOJ is theater anyway.

It's not who they have fighting, or how hard and smart they fight:
It's who they are fighting.

The judiciary.

And until they have someone willing to lie, cheat and steal to win, none of it matters.

Which is why Trump needs to stop with the defense of all these lawsuits and get his "Judge Roy Bean" to start firing off ever and ever more ridiculous injunctions.

Pre-empt them. Post-empt them. Up-empt them. Down-empt them.

Just get a retired judge and go whole hog.

Fuck the cartel judges--let 'em all fight each other: "No I'm in charge! No, I'm in charge! You're a bitch! No, you're a bitch!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (HXT0k)

196 >>> Any word on which "celebrity influencer" will take her place?

the blonde women lawyers at Fox News are all clearing their calendars....

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (jGJov)

197 Is there an unrepentant asshole that would ruthlessly fill this position?

Someone out for Deep State blood?

That just wants to drag people down and destroy their entire lives until they kill themselves?

Monster or LinkedIn?
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:30 PM (Sco7b)

That's what so many people don't get. The AG wasn't the problem. The traitors in the DOJ are a problem. The corrupt judiciary is a problem. The Senate refusing to confirm AUSAs is a problem. It doesn't matter who you make AG. They cannot act like Merrick Garland because the judges won't let a Republican break the law.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)
______

This. The same people celebrating Bondi's firing will turn on whoever replaces her when he (?) can't do anything more than she did. The system is rigged and has been for a long time. Doesn't matter who the AG is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

198 ... she's been on a deranged campaign for almost a year to put Erika Kirk through her own conspiracy-theory Calvary.

---------------

"Air Calvary!"

/Lt. Colonel Kilgore

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (nCGhB)

199 The point made upthread about cabinet positions having to run the Senate Gauntlet is game, set, match. And if the Dems ans Squishes are emboldened by any perceived weakness that run gets even harder. Sucks but it is reality.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (pDt9x)

200
Posted by: Israel Is Always Right at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (VCSmN)



"So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you for your attention to this matter.



Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:12 PM"

🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (GD0B3)

201 The challenge, of course, is confirmation.
Thyme will not allow a recess appointment, and now is not the time to be bargaining away things like the Save America Act and ICE funding in exchange for a speedy confirmation.

Zeldin makes sense as he’s been confirmed once already, no new “dirt”, etc.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

202 >>Breaking a promise to his voters by getting into a war he clearly has no idea what the fuck he's doing in, a war that will destroy the world economy, his Presidency, and the GOP's viability indefinitely, all for the benefit of Israel, that proves Trump is now fully Jewish.


The Stupid never stops.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (TLp3A)

203 lol speaking of women that snowed PDJT ... he got to see his GREAT PICK yesterday huh!

such a great pick

wonderful jurist

all logic and reason up there, huh Amy?

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

204
How about Meatball Ron for Attorney General? He'll be out of the governors mansion soon enough.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (IifOV)

205 Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (TLp3A)

Intelligence has a ceiling, stupidity has no floor.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (ynpvh)

206 I like all the 'ettes and love a handful of you (you better know who you are), but I promise every single last one of you that this rat-faced bitch is not the hill to die on.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (kNAyK)

207 Wish we could get rid of Senators this easy, also Federal judges.

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (pvf3X)

208 It's the end of the world...

Or not

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (qSCCl)

209 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?"

I'd decline the appointment, so that narrows it down a bit.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (N8ZBc)

Hey, if that Torquemada guy isn’t busy ….he has that Grand Inquisitor vibe that will shake up the traitorous Commie bastards.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (cpNfP)

210 Which is why Trump needs to stop with the defense of all these lawsuits and get his "Judge Roy Bean" to start firing off ever and ever more ridiculous injunctions.

Pre-empt them. Post-empt them. Up-empt them. Down-empt them.


Yep.

A big part of the reason we are in the mess we are in is that right leaning judges even the supposedly far right ones are passive and bound be precedent and the conventual wisdom while leftwing judges just YOLO to advance leftwing goals.

Then Roberts has the ability to do...nothing...but give him some activist right wing judges to deal with as well and you'll see him to start cracking down on activism because he will be forced to do so.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (sKqQm)

211
Zeldin makes sense as he’s been confirmed once already, no new “dirt”, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)


Yup

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (FtULh)

212 Ok, hear me out ...Judge Judy!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (GD0B3)

213 So Trump has control of the weather machine?

Posted by: Now it's all starting to make sense at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (2Ez/1)

214 I can't get enough of the Global Economic Eeyeorisms.

All coming from the least educated retards on the planet.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:42 PM (TLp3A)

215 So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you

-------------

+1

"And -1 for I'm omitting the Oxford comma."
/obligatory Grammar Candace Nazi

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (nCGhB)

216 Candace Owens is a psychopath.
What she’s been doing to Erika Kirk is evil.
She seems determined to destroy Erika, Charlie’s memory/legacy and TPUSA.

I would not wish that treatment on any grieving widow.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (4KUe5)

217 that proves Trump is now fully Jewish"

Wait a tic... he was aunty Semitic just last week!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (qSCCl)

218 194 >>If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?


Exactly. Iran is done as we knew it.

BRICS is done.

And, all the while, we are pulling our punches.
The Globe just got a real time lesson in Military Capability that will send China back to the drawing board for another decade.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (TLp3A)

And China's population is even older than the US, so in another decade their window will be closed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (okun6)

219 all logic and reason up there, huh Amy?
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:40 PM (j+aD2)

Of all of them she actually pisses me off the most

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (FtULh)

220 Is it ok to hate Candace, Mark Levin AND Megyn Kelly ?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (4KUe5)
=====

I hate everyone equally.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (RIvkX)

221 She tipped off swalwell? Now that's a weird theory.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (G0vdT)

222 I wonder if Trump could just appoint interim AG's for the next two years? Pick a half dozen or so junkyard dog types that are utterly ruthless. No confirmations needed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (AkEZC)

223 As for Zeldin as the pick, it would not be for his legal smarts and acumen. He's served as an attorney in real life for literally about 3 years...

He's a pick to holdover the office and prevent someone worse...if he's even confirmable, and upthread, I said if they need another vote, after what he did at EPA, he's probably not confirmable...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (tOcjL)

224 217 that proves Trump is now fully Jewish"

Wait a tic... he was aunty Semitic just last week!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (qSCCl)

Aunty Fa is also Aunty Semitic too. She goes by many names.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (ynpvh)

225 So, Rubio heading the DOJ?

Posted by: Inogame at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (53oGX)

226 Which rat-faced b$tch?

A few spring to mind…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (4KUe5)

227 If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?? Ain't gonna happen. Iran is so far north at this point, south just isn't a possibility
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Reddit assures me the war is going terribly, Trump has been exposed as weak on the world stage, our allies are abandoning us, he had no plan, and he's not meeting the benchmarks of the plan he doesn't have. And Americans hate him even more!

If I got to be the leader of a nation in the conflict, I certainly wouldn't choose Iran, but maybe I'm stupid lol.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (ycI94)

228 Thank you all.

Even if your correct answers are depressing.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b)

229 221 She tipped off swalwell? Now that's a weird theory.

Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:43 PM (G0vdT)

There's an odd smell to this story...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (ynpvh)

230 AG seems to need a Bat Girl at the helm.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (n17eQ)

231 The Globe just got a real time lesson in Military Capability that will send China back to the drawing board for another decade."

This. But I'd say 20 years...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (qSCCl)

232 204
How about Meatball Ron for Attorney General? He'll be out of the governors mansion soon enough.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (IifOV)

I'm not sure he wants it right now...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (tOcjL)

233 >>Blanche spent a few years defending Trump and others from Russiagate charges - likely at a lot of personal cost.

>>So I believe he's loyal. Competent? Well, I guess we get to see now don't we?

Bondi was one of Trump's impeachment lawyers yet I'm hearing that she was also secretly trying to take him down with Epstein. So you never know. Or do you?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (viF8m)

234 I volunteer to be Attorney General. I will work for free and I will make prisoners construct the panther pits, also for free.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (BI5O2)

235 Of all of them she actually pisses me off the most


lifetime FUCKING appointment, donna

imagine her at 65 if she's this doofy now

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (j+aD2)

236 Thank you all.

Even if your correct answers are depressing.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (Sco7b)



We're still here, ready and waiting!

Posted by: The Canadian Healthcare System at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

237 225 So, Rubio heading the DOJ?
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Ag is a demotion from being Viceroy.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (n17eQ)

238 Trump unfortunately was far from the only person hornswaggled by Bony Carrot. Our purported side somehow makes abortion the meter and then doesn't listen to anything else.

But she was vouched for over and over by "trusted true cons". And it certainly wasn't easy to suggest anything negative about her when the appointment was in progress.

The way you know if a Trump appt is good is generally if the Left tries to personally destroy them. That said I think Kavanaugh was just a bit of fun for the bastards.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (kNAyK)

239 Reddit assures me the war is going terribly"

Ok, that's funny.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (qSCCl)

240 Honestly, the die was cast when Trump appointed Vance to head up the fraud task force, something she should have been doing.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (2UnvF)

241 Speaking of Todd Blanche... didn't George Costanza have a moment where he taunts a convict by saying to him: But you are, Blanche, you are in the shackles!

Hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (xT8gx)

242 Julie Newmar for AG!

Posted by: Hubba hubba! at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (2Ez/1)

243 The Globe just got a real time lesson in Military Capability that will send China back to the drawing board for another decade.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (TLp3A)


Desert Storm was like this. The US had never gone toe to toe with a Soviet-supplied and doctrinally-based force in open field.

Then we did and the world was like, 'check.'

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (FmapG)

244 The Independent: Trump polled advisors on if he should replace Tulsi Gabbard, report says
Following Kristi Noem's dramatic exit, president said to be mulling dismissing Gabbard or Pam Bondi

The 'or' is interesting.

Today by Harry Cockburn, an environment correspondent who gets to serve as a newsdesk editor and night editor.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (NFX2v)

245 Burt Bondi >>> Pam Bondi

Posted by: fly gal at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (u7NM6)

246 Which rat-faced b$tch?

A few spring to mind…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (4KUe5)

Sorry - Bondi.

Seemed to be stirring some kind of Battle of the Moron Sexes.

Wait a second that sounds kind of cool.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (kNAyK)

247 It would seem Cuber has fallen off the map regarding news and stuff. Then the pouncing begins.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 01:48 PM (n17eQ)

248 Bondi beach >>> Burt Bondi >>> Pam Bondi

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:48 PM (qSCCl)

249 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

If you want real deal blacksploitation, you have to go "Truck Turner" with Issac Hayes, Yaphet Koto, and Nichelle Nichols.

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 02, 2026 01:48 PM (TIizU)

250 How about Meatball Ron for Attorney General? He'll be out of the governors mansion soon enough.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 01:41 PM (IifOV)


That was my call even before the election. DeSantis wants to be President, let's see if he's Rubio or Mattis when given the opportunity.

I'd guess that he'd refuse because he knows the AG can't accomplish much under Trump and it'd make him look bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (ExV1e)

251 Coming soon to a MoMe near you...

Posted by: Battle of the Moron Sexes at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (2Ez/1)

252
>>Trump has also long been frustrated over the DOJ's failure to successfully prosecute his enemies

================

I want her to prosecute MY enemies. I pay taxes and shop at second-hand stores so Somalis can live in mansions and drive Mercedes-Benzes, and there are millions of people like me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (n7rxJ)

253 Good News, everyone!

The Dallas Mavericks have fired Jason Kidd and the cherry on top is they admitted that Kidd knew about the worst trade in sports history beforehand and lied about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (7Q7Ca)

254 Would General Flynn want some payback?

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (qOHHe)

255 DOJ is theater anyway.

It's not who they have fighting, or how hard and smart they fight:
It's who they are fighting.

The judiciary.

And until they have someone willing to lie, cheat and steal to win, none of it matters.

Which is why Trump needs to stop with the defense of all these lawsuits and get his "Judge Roy Bean" to start firing off ever and ever more ridiculous injunctions.

Pre-empt them. Post-empt them. Up-empt them. Down-empt them.

Just get a retired judge and go whole hog.

Fuck the cartel judges--let 'em all fight each other: "No I'm in charge! No, I'm in charge! You're a bitch! No, you're a bitch!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 01:39 PM (HXT0k)
Never a more correct, accurate and essential post—it’s Trump’s ass, our ass, and the Constitutional USA that are on the line.
Senate ‘confirmation’ of a Judge Roy Bean type becomes irrelevant if Trump co-opts /brutalizes one of the RINO cucks keeping the Senate in pro forma session into dropping the pro forma charade ball and allowing a recess appointment of Trump’s AG.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (cpNfP)

256 Coming soon to a MoMe near you...
Posted by: Battle of the Moron Sexes at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (2Ez/1)



This will require pudding. Lots and lots of pudding.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

257
the AG can't accomplish much under Trump

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

================

Are you referring to constant reversals by rogue judges?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (n7rxJ)

258 "Truck Turner" Added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (N8ZBc)

259 A lot of work still undone at tearing down the damage done by the EPA -- especially the HVAC coolant regs.

But Bondi's slow everything has got to go also. No more excuses. Let's see action.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (wBaIH)

260 Trump loves the military but he'll need a fall guy if Iran goes south as mentioned above. That's Hegseth.
Posted by: WisRich at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (G0vdT)

If Iran goes south?? Come one, I mean they're getting destroyed... they're pummeling our fists with their face and it's gonna go south?? Ain't gonna happen. Iran is so far north at this point, south just isn't a possibility
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:34 PM (xT8gx)


IMHO, the hold-up is islam. It's almost impossible to deal with make a deal with people who believe that god's will is that the win or die trying.

So, a couple of things need to happen:

1) We arm Iranians who want the gov't members ended and dead. If if if we can find enough Iranians who will fight for themselves and their own country.

2) We need a figurehead that the Iranians people can get behind, right now all they have is an amorphous blob of "someone better". That figurehead is probably the Shah of Iran, assuming he's up to the job.

3) Not sure this would work but pit the Iranians nationalism, culture, and history against the invader colonialist moslems with Zoroastrianism if that's even still a thing. Probably not.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (iJfKG)

261 PS - When considering folks for AG, anyone nominated now knows they and their families will be stuck on military bases for the foreseeable future. Living on a crappy government salary. When they probably makes millions in private practice.

Ask yourself who wants that job AND is confirmable...and you'll find almost no one who will be better than who we had...as mentioned many times, Bondi was the best AG we had in 50 years b/c Rs NEVER have good AGs, and she was definitely in the decent category...she didn't DO anything against what we wanted (now, did she do ENOUGH for what we DID want - probably not...but that NEVER happens)...

She also oversaw the cleanout of the buried in zealots from numerous agencies below her...and did it with no lawsuits and losses...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (tOcjL)

262 lifetime FUCKING appointment, donna

imagine her at 65 if she's this doofy now
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:46 PM (j+aD2)


Another Sandra Day O'Conner

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (FtULh)

263 Just last week Trump praised Tulsi Gabbard.
She is not leaving.


Vote of confidence? Consult the polymarket!

Posted by: Unkaren at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (OTOad)

264 I wonder if Trump could just appoint interim AG's for the next two years? Pick a half dozen or so junkyard dog types that are utterly ruthless. No confirmations needed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (AkEZC)

Just have a group of about 5 assistant AGs that don't need confirmation and have them divide the work and evaluate the others.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (8avO+)

265 sic transit gloria mundi

Posted by: Gref at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (5rh/l)

266 I want her to prosecute MY enemies. I pay taxes and shop at second-hand stores so Somalis can live in mansions and drive Mercedes-Benzes, and there are millions of people like me.

I went to *Walmart* recently and was shocked by the prices (I have a couple of local places that are extremely cost effective).

The damage from Bidenflation and the endless fraud we are finding is extreme.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (sKqQm)

267 Eh, have not been impressed.
Trump needs people who will act fast and go hard. She has not done that. Should’ve used the J6 template on those who have waged war on Trump since 2016. There has been plenty of criminal behavior and lawfare that needs to be checked.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (4KUe5)

268 Bondi...She's at best a B cup....Chicken tits.

Posted by: BRYAN NOEM at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (1d+x4)

269 "So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you."

tough, but fair

Posted by: zigggggy at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (EDeJ/)

270 Good News, everyone!

The Dallas Mavericks have fired Jason Kidd and the cherry on top is they admitted that Kidd knew about the worst trade in sports history beforehand and lied about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (7Q7Ca)

Probably a good move. However, I have to say about that trade... I am so sick of sports radio being all over Luka's balls constantly.... the jock sniffing gets so old I just turn it off. Doncic is good but he plays zero defense and must eat about 5 cheeseburgers a day... I'll just put it this way, he's no Larry Bird

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (xT8gx)

271 Blanche is as bad a Blondi. Not an upgrade at all.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (BCuCF)

272 John Eastman for DoJ. He's the guy Garland goons hounded for the crime of giving expert legal advice to Trump.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (Dv3i1)

273 Who would you replace the evil Bondi with?
------
Ken Paxton


But not until he's done curb stomping Cornyn past the point of no return. I'm not sure what happens if Paxton were to win the runoff and then withdraw. Better to let him win the general and then resign and Abbott can replace him with someone not named Cornyn. Or Phelan. Or Straus.

Posted by: Space Dad at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (vTZFs)

274 You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (2Ez/1)

275 Fred "The Hammer" Williamson laughs....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (qSCCl)

276 "I went to *Walmart* recently and was shocked by the prices"

Concur.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (N8ZBc)

277 IMHO, the hold-up is islam. It's almost impossible to deal with make a deal with people who believe that god's will is that the win or die trying.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (iJfKG)

For all the talk about that, there seems to be a lot of hiding and bunkering up in Iran rather than this kamikaze offensive.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (8avO+)

278 Are you referring to constant reversals by rogue judges?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (n7rxJ)


Check.

And the lack of Assistant US Attorneys confirmed by the Senate?

Check.

And the continuing presence of undiscovered, or 'unfireable', people at the DOJ who're not on board with Trump's priorities?

Check.

Exactly the same things we've been dealing with all along.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (ExV1e)

279 >>Eh, have not been impressed.
Trump needs people who will act fast and go hard. She has not done that. Should’ve used the J6 template on those who have waged war on Trump since 2016. There has been plenty of criminal behavior and lawfare that needs to be checked.

The problem with that approach is what allowed Biden to go after J6ers so fast and loose was it was done with DC juries. The same ones that will never convict a Democrat of jaywalking.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (viF8m)

280 Probably a good move. However, I have to say about that trade... I am so sick of sports radio being all over Luka's balls constantly.... the jock sniffing gets so old I just turn it off. Doncic is good but he plays zero defense and must eat about 5 cheeseburgers a day... I'll just put it this way, he's no Larry Bird
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (xT8gx)



He did lose a lot of weight in the offseason, so he's better, and less injury prone. The defense thing is valid, but he's one of the best pure shooters in the game.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (7Q7Ca)

281 >>>Abbott can replace him with someone not named Cornyn. Or Phelan. Or Straus.

Knowing Abbot he'll replace him with someone named Patel, Rasheesh, or Pajeet

Posted by: brak at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (jGJov)

282 264 I wonder if Trump could just appoint interim AG's for the next two years? Pick a half dozen or so junkyard dog types that are utterly ruthless. No confirmations needed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (AkEZC)

Just have a group of about 5 assistant AGs that don't need confirmation and have them divide the work and evaluate the others.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (8avO+)

Assistant AGs, like Harmeet, also need Senate confirmation.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (tOcjL)

283 Best thing she did in her term of service was to convict last month the 9 Antifa activists who rioted at the Texas ICE detention center.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (y171U)

284 Dasha Burns from Politico also posted on X a precis of Donald Trump's April 1st speech before it aired, 'according to informed sources', and got pretty much all the big points wrong.

So Magic 8 Ball says, 'Ehhhhhhh, mebbe. Mebbe not'.'

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (Ft5W9)

285 254 Would General Flynn want some payback?
-------------------
This would be fun.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (n17eQ)

286
No convictions likely for Dems in D.C. or Manhattan for sure.

But that shouldn't be the objective.

They played "Process is the punishment" and Pam never got on board with that.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (Y8DZL)

287 "How will AG YD procure free panthers," many of my detractors stupidly ask.

Well, it's simple. My detractors will be forced to capture wild panthers, under the watch of BOP snipers in helicopters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (BI5O2)

288 Doncic is good but he plays zero defense and must eat about 5 cheeseburgers a day.
___

He's arguably an even bigger whiner than Lebron. Gives a bad impression of Slovenians who nearly all are rather stoic and reserved.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)

289 Better to let him win the general and then resign and Abbott can replace him with someone not named Cornyn. Or Phelan. Or Straus.

Posted by: Space Dad at April 02, 2026 01:52 PM (vTZFs)



I don't currently trust Abbott to do the right thing.........His biggest doner being a Pakistani national and mosques popping up all over Texas has me really reconsidering my support of Abbott.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (7Q7Ca)

290 Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:29 PM (iFTx/)

If you want real deal blacksploitation, you have to go "Truck Turner" with Issac Hayes, Yaphet Koto, and Nichelle Nichols.
Posted by: front toward enemy at April 02, 2026 01:48 PM (TIizU)
____

Yup, already saw that! And anything of the era with Pam Grier. Cleopatra Jones was like a Disney version of those movies.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

291 >>IMHO, the hold-up is islam. It's almost impossible to deal with make a deal with people who believe that god's will is that the win or die trying.


Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (TLp3A)

292 if Iran goes south"

That's quite a gulf...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (qSCCl)

293 Remember, whomever Trump nominates has to get through the Senate. The same Senate that includes Tillis, Murkowski and number of other RINOs.

If you are expecting some Ultra MAGA to get through confirmation you are dreaming.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (viF8m)

294 Freaky world

Posted by: Eromero at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (cTDYk)

295 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (BI5O2)

See 94 it's already a done deal

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:56 PM (kNAyK)

296 if Iran goes south"

That's quite a gulf...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (qSCCl)



Strait up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:56 PM (7Q7Ca)

297 Yeah, but is he a Global Icon™?

Posted by: King James at April 02, 2026 01:56 PM (2Ez/1)

298 Kind of a jarring thought but if William F Buckley were alive today I suspect he'd have been a never-Trumper. He died in 2008 IIRC well before the golden escalator moment in 2015, so we'll never know

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (xT8gx)

299 I went to *Walmart* recently and was shocked by the prices (I have a couple of local places that are extremely cost effective).

The damage from Bidenflation and the endless fraud we are finding is extreme.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:51

I like to have 'The Price is Right' on in the background.

When Canadians are looking at the prices and going 'DAMN!', things are.....not good.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (Sco7b)

300 Trump's got the second term blues. Polls are dropping so throw a bone to the other side. Never works well.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (wGerL)

301 Good News, everyone!

The Dallas Mavericks have fired Jason Kidd and the cherry on top is they admitted that Kidd knew about the worst trade in sports history beforehand and lied about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (7Q7Ca)


Yay! But, way too little, way too late.

This is an almost exact analogy for the Biden "Presidency".

So much damage was done, that it will take years just to get back to what it was and that may never happen.

For the team or the nation.

At least, the Mavs don't have half of their team trying to destroy the team as we have with the Democrats.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (iJfKG)

302 Yeah, but is he a Global Icon™?
Posted by: King James at April 02, 2026 01:56 PM (2Ez/1)



You're a global clown. Piss off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

303 >>No convictions likely for Dems in D.C. or Manhattan for sure.

>>But that shouldn't be the objective.

>>They played "Process is the punishment" and Pam never got on board with that.

How did the Virginia indictments of Comey and James turn out?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (viF8m)

304 "Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them? "

SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

305 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (xT8gx)

Maybe maybe not. Schlafly endorsed him early before her unfortunate demise.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (kNAyK)

306 Should’ve used the J6 template on those who have waged war on Trump since 2016. There has been plenty of criminal behavior and lawfare that needs to be checked.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (4KUe5)


She couldn't. The "J6 template" worked because it happened in DC where the populace and the judiciary were all on board with sticking it to Trump people.

The folks who waged war on Trump do so from the safety of blue enclaves. Where they won't get indicted, or the charges will be dismissed, or they'll be found not guilty.

The belief that things will be sunny if only we have the right face in the manager's office is just going to lead to more unhappiness.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (ExV1e)

307 Trump should get some big name national ambulance chaser type for AG.

You'll never find a lawyer who will be the upstanding beacon of goodness and wonderfulness everyone wants. And that person, if they exist, couldn't possibly be enough of a bastard to be a good AG.

Get a shit stirring ass kicker who doesn't give a rats ass about MAGA, but loves money and loves fighting more than money.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (eqMv7)

308
"Show bobs and vagene!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026

You see one bob, you’ve seen them all.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (Wmg4n)

309 281 >>>Abbott can replace him with someone not named Cornyn. Or Phelan. Or Straus.

Knowing Abbot he'll replace him with someone named Patel, Rasheesh, or Pajeet
Posted by: brak

Muhammed, Mohammed, or Muhammad.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (ycI94)

310 His biggest doner being a Pakistani national and mosques popping up all over Texas has me really reconsidering my support of Abbott."

Hey!

/Colony Ridge Development

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (qSCCl)

311 "Kind of a jarring thought but if William F Buckley were alive today I suspect he'd have been a never-Trumper."

WFB was a bad writer. There. I said it.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (N8ZBc)

312 Trump should get some big name national ambulance chaser type for AG.

You'll never find a lawyer who will be the upstanding beacon of goodness and wonderfulness everyone wants. And that person, if they exist, couldn't possibly be enough of a bastard to be a good AG.

Get a shit stirring ass kicker who doesn't give a rats ass about MAGA, but loves money and loves fighting more than money.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (eqMv7)



Tanned, rested and READY!

Posted by: The TEXAS HAMMER!!! at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (7Q7Ca)

313 Jim Adler for AG!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:59 PM (xT8gx)

314
sic transit gloria bondi

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 01:59 PM (n7rxJ)

315 You see one bob, you’ve seen them all.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM (Wmg4n)



Sportsbra!

Go BOOBS!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:59 PM (7Q7Ca)

316 AG James McGill

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (kNAyK)

317 You see one bob, you’ve seen them all.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 01:58 PM
++++

Hey. Let's not be too hasty here.

Posted by: Guys everywhere at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (2Ez/1)

318 I went to *Walmart* recently and was shocked by the prices"

Welcome to 2020. And 2021. And 2022. And 2023...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (qSCCl)

319 IMHO, the hold-up is islam. It's almost impossible to deal with make a deal with people who believe that god's will is that the win or die trying.


Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (TLp3A)


Well, remember there's shia vs sunni.

As well as radical "hey let's start the apocalypse!" a-holes versus "we gotta live in the real world" politicos.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (iJfKG)

320 Kind of a jarring thought but if William F Buckley were alive today I suspect he'd have been a never-Trumper. He died in 2008 IIRC well before the golden escalator moment in 2015, so we'll never know
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (xT8gx)


Buckley would have never tolerated a competitor to his position as "pope of the conservatives" and would have fought Trump to his own destruction. Buckley had been at the top for far too long and stayed there by destroying all the up and comers who would not support him, so he was flabby and entitled.
He destroyed conservativism to keep his own meal train runnin'

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (rbvCR)

321 If I got to be the leader of a nation in the conflict, I certainly wouldn't choose Iran, but maybe I'm stupid lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (ycI94)

It is true that a Navy and Air Force can't occupy Iran, but it is also true that we really don't need to occupy Iran if having a stable state there isn't our military objective. If we slag the power stations, port facilities and oil fields, whatever happens on the ground isn't gonna be exported worldwide.

If some rump IGRC crawls out of the ashes, well we can sail right back with a few carriers and bomb them again indefinitely.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (8avO+)

322 Every time Trump spoke of Bondi he praised her.... I'm thinking the Swallwell story "might" be true.. Or something like it...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (FtULh)

323 312, 313...
I want one of those sledgehammers....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (qSCCl)

324 Atlantic: Trump is a modern Hitler because...they both liked big architecture. (Yeah, I know, crazy that the fascist dictator/failed art student who burnt modern art liked classic architecture. Shocking, that.)

Hitler’s Edifice Complex - Timothy W. Ryback
He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power. “They should sense the strength and grandeur of the German Reich as they walk from the entrance to the reception hall,” Adolf Hitler told his chief architect, Albert Speer, outlining his plans for an extension to the old Reich chancellery...

The new annex, connected...by a marble corridor hung with crystal chandeliers, was part of Hitler’s ambitious plans to align the Berlin cityscape with his vision for the future of the country. Hitler wanted a Triumphbogen, a triumphal arch, twice the size of the Arc de Triomphe...He wanted an “Avenue of Splendor” for military parades. “The Champs-Élysées is a hundred meters wide,” Hitler told Speer. “We will make our avenue twenty meters wider.” A planned “Hall of the People” was to be topped by the largest swastika on Earth.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (Eng1Z)

325 If you think she’s like some kind of genius, you’re wrong. She’s a malicious halfwit.

?! Such vitriol. Schlichter must be in the same tier as Candace. Neither of them matter.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (iFEms)

326 304 "Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them? "

Islamic countries aligned with the US:
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- UAE
- Jordan
- Oman
- Bahrain

Islamic countries allied with Iran:
- England
- France
- Spain
- Germany

SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (cKPyM)

327 288 Doncic is good but he plays zero defense and must eat about 5 cheeseburgers a day.
___

He's arguably an even bigger whiner than Lebron. Gives a bad impression of Slovenians who nearly all are rather stoic and reserved.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)


Top-tier NCAA men's basketball teams are getting top-heavy with foreigners. Mostly from Eastern Europe and Africa. So far.

You go where the talent is, like baseball did with getting Latin American players. Now it's Japan and Korea that are more and more the area of operations for a lot of baseball talent scouts.

Posted by: Gref at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (5rh/l)

328 It is being announced that Bondi is out.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (Q/FnY)

329 I volunteer to be Attorney General. I will work for free and I will make prisoners construct the panther pits, also for free.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (BI5O2)

--------------

YD for AG -- pass it on!

Make Woodchippers Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (59aDg)

330 Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:00 PM (rbvCR)

Was he that bad at the end? I had no idea.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:02 PM (kNAyK)

331 Islamic countries allied with Iran:
- England
- France
- Spain
- Germany


heh

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:02 PM (j+aD2)

332 >>Every time Trump spoke of Bondi he praised her.... I'm thinking the Swallwell story "might" be true.. Or something like it...

From Jonathan Turley who knows DC and the DC legal community.

>>@JonathanTurley
·
18m
>>The news of the departure of Pam Bondi hit with a thunderclap in Washington. There were some recent rumors, but nothing concrete in the prior week. Bondi is the ultimate loyalist who, like Todd Blanche (the new acting AG), earned her bones in the trenches with the President in impeachment and criminal trials...

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:02 PM (viF8m)

333 Legal scholar, John Yoo on Fox thinks it's because if the Democrats take the House They are going to automatically impeach Trump and he needs someone that has the inside Washington experience of fighting impeachment

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:02 PM (NpAcC)

334 but it is also true that we really don't need to occupy Iran if having a stable state there isn't our military objective"

Ever been to that part of the world? Western states they... never will be. We need to get that in our heads.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (qSCCl)

335 Why on God's green earth would Bondi leak anything at all to Fartwell?? Why would she communicate anything with that creep?? Could that story be true? I'm incredulous...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (xT8gx)

336
Hitler’s Edifice Complex - Timothy W. Ryback
He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power.



So, he was Saddam Hussein?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

337 There's an odd smell to this story...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM


* smiles *

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (0sNs1)

338 Islamic countries allied with Iran:
- England
- France
- Spain
- Germany
- Canada
- Australia

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Sco7b)

339 Kind of a jarring thought but if William F Buckley were alive today I suspect he'd have been a never-Trumper. He died in 2008 IIRC well before the golden escalator moment in 2015, so we'll never know
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (xT8gx)

Standing athwart history yelling stop is no way to go through life, young man.
Dean Wormer, laughing as Kevin Bacon's character gets trampled while hollering All is Well!
WFB, the OG grifter

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (zafwz)

340 WFB was a bad writer. There. I said it.
Posted by: gp

"The Unmaking of a Mayor" was a hoot.

At least give Buckley credit for the ridiculing of John Lindsey.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (Y8DZL)

341 "Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them? "

SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

Nobody in the area liked Iran, they just feared them. If we abandoned the anti IGRC war they might revert to that, or bomb them themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (8avO+)

342 He's arguably an even bigger whiner than Lebron.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (Dv3i1)



This is not possible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (7Q7Ca)

343 > The problem with that approach is what allowed Biden to go after J6ers so fast and loose was it was done with DC juries. The same ones that will never convict a Democrat of jaywalking.
-----------
Do all DoJ cases have to be handled through DC juries? I mean, can any DoJ case be brought up in, say TX or FL rather than DC? What's the requirement to have a case heard elsewhere?

The purported crime done there? Or the purported victim? In either case I think the DoJ should be able to swing it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (AkEZC)

344 333 Legal scholar, John Yoo on Fox thinks it's because if the Democrats take the House They are going to automatically impeach Trump and he needs someone that has the inside Washington experience of fighting impeachment
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:02 PM (NpAcC)

So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)

345 16 The Blade is available to serve as AG. Just saying ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01

Are you able to be confirmed? I am thinking lots of skeletons. But I will be your paralegal if it goes through.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)

346 I like big buttresses and I cannot lie

Posted by: Big Architecture at April 02, 2026 02:05 PM (Dv3i1)

347 Don’t forget about my unforgettable titties!

Posted by: Alina Habba at April 02, 2026 02:05 PM (OTOad)

348 Every time Trump spoke of Bondi he praised her.... I'm thinking the Swallwell story "might" be true.. Or something like it...

He may have given her that as a final assignment, as it gives her some cover to be 'trusted' by the TV circuit crowd.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 02:05 PM (iFEms)

349 IMHO, the hold-up is islam. It's almost impossible to deal with make a deal with people who believe that god's will is that the win or die trying.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (iJfKG)

For all the talk about that, there seems to be a lot of hiding and bunkering up in Iran rather than this kamikaze offensive.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 01:53 PM (8avO+)


I would say they're still thinking they can win this thing. And islam doesn't demand a kamikaze attack.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 02:05 PM (iJfKG)

350 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm..."

The walls, they are falling off.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (qSCCl)

351 Trump is considering Lee Zeldin for Pam's replacement.
He's doing a great job at EPA. Trump doesn't have time to have to have 2 positions open taking up time for confirmation.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (NpAcC)

352 WFB's spat on live TV with Gore Vidal was quite entertaining.

Posted by: PabloD at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (FBzMg)

353 but it is also true that we really don't need to occupy Iran if having a stable state there isn't our military objective"

Ever been to that part of the world? Western states they... never will be. We need to get that in our heads.
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (qSCCl)

Rome handled its borders for centuries with some carrots and the occasional punitive attack that broke a lot of stuff the barbarians had built up and made them cautious for a generation or so.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (8avO+)

354 WFB's best moment by far: Calling Gore Vidal a queer on live television and threatening to sock him in his god damned face.... what a classic moment

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (xT8gx)

355 "Every time Trump spoke of Bondi he praised her."

You can't believe everything he says publicly. YMMV.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (N8ZBc)

356
All I would ask for is food and lodging, but my tastes are simple and austere. It would just have to be on a large, heavily defended military base with joint operations and commanders who know what true justice really means.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (BI5O2)

357 >>Do all DoJ cases have to be handled through DC juries? I mean, can any DoJ case be brought up in, say TX or FL rather than DC? What's the requirement to have a case heard elsewhere?

Crimes have to be prosecuted in the district they happened. The DOJ can't just randomly pick a district and try a case.

This is why it is ironically good news they raided Mar A Lago. That's why a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida is hearing evidence about the conspiracy against Trump instead of the case being heard in DC.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (viF8m)

358 343 > The problem with that approach is what allowed Biden to go after J6ers so fast and loose was it was done with DC juries. The same ones that will never convict a Democrat of jaywalking.
-----------
Do all DoJ cases have to be handled through DC juries? I mean, can any DoJ case be brought up in, say TX or FL rather than DC? What's the requirement to have a case heard elsewhere?

The purported crime done there? Or the purported victim? In either case I think the DoJ should be able to swing it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (AkEZC)

The locus of the crime...you need some element of the crime occurring in the jurisdiction.

J6 was obviously DC.

It's why I said the law should be changed for DC occurring crimes so that any state could hear them...but no one has done that...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (tOcjL)

359 I would say they're still thinking"

That presupposes "breathing"

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (qSCCl)

360 Legal scholar, John Yoo on Fox
--------

This isn't your first clue its bullshit?

When things turn around and Republicans hold (barring a rash of 2018 style "sudden retirements"), where will these legal scholars be? Oh yeah just peddling more garbage.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (kNAyK)

361 Honestly, a cinder block would do a better job than Bondi.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (abIsI)

362 355 "Every time Trump spoke of Bondi he praised her."

You can't believe everything he says publicly. YMMV.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (N8ZBc)


Obviously... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (FtULh)

363 SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)


SA, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain just got told they can either control the Gulf themselves, or someone European is going to

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (rbvCR)

364 341 "Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them? "

SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

Nobody in the area liked Iran, they just feared them. If we abandoned the anti IGRC war they might revert to that, or bomb them themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat

I know little but I fear the influence of Qatar the most if it sides or stands quietly with Iran.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (NFX2v)

365 352, 354 - More horde mind

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (xT8gx)

366 Yup, already saw that! And anything of the era with Pam Grier. Cleopatra Jones was like a Disney version of those movies.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

How great was Nichelle Nichols as the Madam of the whorehouse, as she introduced her girls: "This is Turnpike. You gotta pay to get on, and ya gotta pay to get off."

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 02, 2026 02:08 PM (TIizU)

367 Do all DoJ cases have to be handled through DC juries? I mean, can any DoJ case be brought up in, say TX or FL rather than DC? What's the requirement to have a case heard elsewhere?

The purported crime done there? Or the purported victim? In either case I think the DoJ should be able to swing it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (AkEZC)


The case is brought where the 'crime' happened.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:08 PM (ExV1e)

368 338 Islamic countries allied with Iran:
- England
- France
- Spain
- Germany
- Canada
- Australia
Posted by: Stateless

All run by socialist parties that don't have actual majorities, but the world hate America coalition is a rabid beast.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 02:08 PM (Y8DZL)

369 Standing athwart history yelling stop is no way to go through life, young man.
____

I never understood that as a rallying cry. Sounds defeatist.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 02:08 PM (Dv3i1)

370 SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

SA, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain just got told they can either control the Gulf themselves, or someone European is going to
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (rbvCR)

They should hire some USN destroyer flotillas on a cash basis.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)

371 >>>The news of the departure of Pam Bondi hit with a thunderclap in Washington. There were some recent rumors, but nothing concrete in the prior week. Bondi is the ultimate loyalist...

Funny, this doesn't surprise me at all. Trump is running out of time, he NEEDS results before the midterms. He needs a wartime Pam Bondi who will go to the mattresses.

She wasn't loyal enough to actually fire anyone huge or jail anyone big enough to scare the dems into doing the people's work and not theirs.

I don't care how loyal she is. If she fired moles and traitors in house, great. But none of that translated to indicting all the vile people we've been screaming about. The people who will impeach Trump and build a gallows for him the second the midterms swing their way.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (Eng1Z)

372 Honestly, a cinder block would do a better job than Bondi.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (abIsI)


Dude, you shouldn't be so hot to get rid of Bondi, if she goes you will have to find someone else to obsess about

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (rbvCR)

373 occasional punitive attack that broke a lot of stuff the barbarians had built up and made them cautious for a generation or so"

An excellent plan

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (qSCCl)

374 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)
*****
The Left is energized and our side is complacent.
We definitely could lose the House and the Senate.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (NpAcC)

375 The Blade is available to serve as AG. Just saying ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01

Are you able to be confirmed? I am thinking lots of skeletons. But I will be your paralegal if it goes through.
Posted by: Piper


There are some great handles here that you could ask to vouch for you in front of Congress. It's unfortunate that Masturbatin' Pete is no longer in good standing.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (iFEms)

376 Welp, that was third IG.

Thats all you get.

Posted by: Operator Error at April 02, 2026 02:10 PM (Li9FJ)

377 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)
*****
The Left is energized and our side is complacent.
We definitely could lose the House and the Senate.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (NpAcC)

The house, yes. Not the senate

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:10 PM (xT8gx)

378 Trump is considering Lee Zeldin for Pam's replacement.
He's doing a great job at EPA. Trump doesn't have time to have to have 2 positions open taking up time for confirmation.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (NpAcC)


He wouldn't need to leave EPA until/unless he was confirmed at DOJ so the confirmation would be sequential.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:10 PM (ExV1e)

379 Mary Katherine Ham has had some great responses to anyone mocking Mrs. Kirk. When Candace said, for example, she's faking because she smiled as a new widow. Unreal.

Ham should know, since her husband died in a bike accident when her children were 2yrs old and one two months before birth. My own SIL had to deal with the sudden cardiac death of her husband (my dude's brother) when her boys were 4 and 3yrs old. It is hell on earth, and like MK Ham says, no one should have to go through this depth of grief. And certainly no one should judge Kirk as Owens has. Made worse by her "platform" to trumpet her delusions.

Regarding Bondi: I don't know why she did or didn't do as people wanted her to. If she did, in fact, tip off SwallowingWell, I will not defend her at all. I did not think she was "in over her head" in the beginning, but I guess she was.

I hope President Trump finally gets an AG who will FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 02:10 PM (WONhk)

380 Where is the outrage at the DOJ lawyers who are responsible for building and trying the cases you all want to see?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (+nEug)

381 They should hire some USN destroyer flotillas on a cash basis.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)


I am told they have pretty good surface fleets, for patrolling the gulf, but anything they lack they can afford. IF they control the gulf.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

382
Now I'll have to read up on Todd Blanche. How different will things look once he takes over?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (n7rxJ)

383 Another New Yorker PDJT should consider for a cabinet job is Elise Stefanik.

Her most basic belief is attack, attack, attack, and I think that's a good platform these days. Do unto them first.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (eFLnD)

384 They should hire some USN destroyer flotillas on a cash basis."

Ahem.

/ The Cajun Navy

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (qSCCl)

385 377 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)
*****
The Left is energized and our side is complacent.
We definitely could lose the House and the Senate.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (NpAcC)

The house, yes. Not the senate
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:10 PM (xT8gx)

Oh, we could lose the Senate...it doesn't take many surprise states to do so...again, if women keep being demonized and prices stay high and we stay at war, women will overwhelmingly turn out and men stay home, like VA's election last year...and then you get unprecedented results...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (tOcjL)

386 Trump has made a statement saying what a "good " job Pam did and that she will be starting an exciting new job in the private sector to be announced soon...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (FtULh)

387
You can't believe everything he says publicly. YMMV.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 02:06 PM (N8ZBc)


Obviously... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (FtULh)

I've mentioned before that Brit Lass is a lot like Trump. Like scarily so.

Watching him run in 2016 was like watching her run for president. That's how I was pretty sure he was gonna win. With Micturating Pete yelling at me that I was a big idiot the whole summer.

And yeah basically if she was in charge, the media would scream at her "BUT YOU SAID (blah)!!!" Her answer? "I've slept since."

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (kNAyK)

388 My assessment of Pam Bondi is that she is remarkably attractive.

Lovely, Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (GPa4z)

389 Legal scholar, John Yoo on Fox
--------

This isn't your first clue its bullshit?

When things turn around and Republicans hold (barring a rash of 2018 style "sudden retirements"), where will these legal scholars be? Oh yeah just peddling more garbage.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (kNAyK)
*******
Fox has changed for the better.
I have always liked John Yoo. He's smart and I usually agree with him 99% of the time.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC)

390 women keep being demonized and prices stay high"

Excuse me? WTF?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (qSCCl)

391 Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future, and our Deputy Attorney General, and a very talented and respected Legal Mind, Todd Blanche, will step in to serve as Acting Attorney General. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (abIsI)

392
I know little but I fear the influence of Qatar the most if it sides or stands quietly with Iran.
Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:07 PM (NFX2v)

Saudis have 75000 in their army, Qatar has about a third of that in all their armed forces.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (8avO+)

393 375
There are some great handles here that you could ask to vouch for you in front of Congress. It's unfortunate that Masturbatin' Pete is no longer in good standing.
Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 02

As the paralegal, I don’t need to be confirmed. plus I am really boring, so it wouldn’t be much fun.

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (Wmg4n)

394 "Legal scholar", John Yoo is an idiot. Better interpretation is that there are many cases to challenge voter registration, etc. that need to be done before midterms, that need some energy. Maybe a possible law suit of result in Pam Beach just for the fun of it.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (GD0B3)

395 382
Now I'll have to read up on Todd Blanche. How different will things look once he takes over?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (n7rxJ)

They'll be slower and even more static...b/c no one cares about an acting and he won't rock the boat to make them care...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (tOcjL)

396 Dude, you shouldn't be so hot to get rid of Bondi, if she goes you will have to find someone else to obsess about
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (rbvCR)


He'll either go after Tulsi, since she's a she, or whoever is the new AG, since the issues which prevented Bondi from doing the things that people complain about will still be in place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (ExV1e)

397 Oh, we could lose the Senate...it doesn't take many surprise states to do so...again, if women keep being demonized and prices stay high and we stay at war, women will overwhelmingly turn out and men stay home, like VA's election last year...and then you get unprecedented results...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (tOcjL)

Women are already gonna do that and demonized ? Who's being demonized ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (FtULh)

398 Nood Bondi > Nude Bondi

Take my mancard if you must
Posted by: 18-1
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I'll wait to see the pictures before I decide.
She does have a pretty face, though.

I think Trump.wants his version of Eric Holder in there, and Pam just wasn't cutting it.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (DAQKj)

399 Ah, I see the rumor that Bondi tipped off Swalwell comes from the Daily Mail.

Ok then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (viF8m)

400 Fox has changed for the better.
I have always liked John Yoo. He's smart and I usually agree with him 99% of the time.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (NpAcC)

I'm happy to be wrong. I practically live out on a limb.

But you can't trust Fox. They've shown what they are.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (kNAyK)

401 >>> I've mentioned before that Brit Lass is a lot like Trump. Like scarily so. Watching him run in 2016 was like watching her run for president. That's how I was pretty sure he was gonna win.

Ok I'm missing something, my brain is not connecting the dots. Who is Brit Lass?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (Eng1Z)

402 Saudis have 75000 in their army, Qatar has about a third of that in all their armed forces."

Texas and Louisiana chuckle

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (qSCCl)

403 I honestly think it is too early to predict mid-terms. Hold.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (WONhk)

404 They should hire some USN destroyer flotillas on a cash basis.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (8avO+)

I am told they have pretty good surface fleets, for patrolling the gulf, but anything they lack they can afford. IF they control the gulf.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 02:11 PM (rbvCR)

Well the US isn't gonna let a force it doesn't like set up shop in the Gulf for long.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (8avO+)

405 403 I honestly think it is too early to predict mid-terms. Hold.

absolutely too early

its all just FUD

all they got and they got a lot so

eat up!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (j+aD2)

406 400
But you can't trust Fox. They've shown what they are.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (kNAyK)

I have not forgiven them for when the Murdochs celebrated Trump's defeat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (N39Ws)

407 Saudis have 75000 in their army, Qatar has about a third of that in all their armed forces.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (8avO+)

Can the Saudi's still send their manservants in their stead if called to active duty?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (zafwz)

408 390 women keep being demonized and prices stay high"

Excuse me? WTF?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:12 PM (qSCCl)

Trump keeps firing his inner female folks, and folks here keep applauding that...what do you think Dems will do with that in their attack ads?

They'll have a picture of Trump's current team...and point it out every single day the only folks he's fired from it...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (tOcjL)

409
Why on God's green earth would Bondi leak anything at all to Fartwell?? Why would she communicate anything with that creep?? Could that story be true? I'm incredulous...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

==============

That's what I'm trying to figure out. Unless the leak was inadvertent and she's being fired for incompetence.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (n7rxJ)

410 Ok I'm missing something, my brain is not connecting the dots. Who is Brit Lass?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (Eng1Z)

My lovely other half.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (kNAyK)

411 The Blade is available to serve as AG. Just saying ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01

Are you able to be confirmed? I am thinking lots of skeletons. But I will be your paralegal if it goes through.
Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)
______

[Insert "monkey side eye" meme]

No real skeletons but I doubt I'm the kind of guy who would appeal to the RINO squishes in the Senate. Plus, as a single guy who was heavy into the party scene, there's no doubt they could find some girl somewhere to make up Kavanagh-like claims about me.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

412 have pretty good surface fleets"

Who?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (XuXeR)

413 see now I want to meet/befriend three dots' wife

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (j+aD2)

414 She was the Sean Hannity of the cabinet.

Noem was the bimbo.

Neither should have been appointed in the first place.

I strongly doubt the rumors about Tulsi, but we'll see.

Posted by: alanon at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (jHMkm)

415 Trump must forego the formal Senate AG confirmation route and maneuver/force a recess appointment of an aggressive AG.

The MAGA base craves traitor/seditionist political( ie Prosecuted ) blood.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (cpNfP)

416 "The left is energized"

With what? Soros money?

Posted by: Case at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (pvf3X)

417 The SOROS 6 month SUMMER OFFENSIVE begins logistical ramping up June 1. Entry level rally/riot positions still open,! Sign up now

Posted by: Paul at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (rnhWE)

418 363. ... or someone European is going to
Posted by: Kindltot

Action News, minutes ago, 'UK gathers more than 40 countries to press Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Britain has accused Iran of holding the global economy hostage as diplomats from over 40 countries discuss ways to press Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz'
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press Apr 2, 2026 Updated 13 mins ago

Yes, the fighting diplomats are ...talking.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (NFX2v)

419 Trump keeps firing his inner female folks, "

Yeah. And keeps all the men. Right, Matt?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (XuXeR)

420 I think Trump.wants his version of Eric Holder in there, and Pam just wasn't cutting it.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (DAQKj)


Then he needed to replace 108% of the GOP Senate, 115% of the DC judiciary, and 78% of SCOTUS.

Lacking that, he ain't getting what he wants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (ExV1e)

421 Women are already gonna do that and demonized ? Who's being demonized ?
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:13 PM (FtULh)
==============
It's a mystery.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (eFLnD)

422 Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (j+aD2)

OMG you two would be friends even though she generally hates women - both of you are little sparks

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (kNAyK)

423 419 Trump keeps firing his inner female folks, "

Yeah. And keeps all the men. Right, Matt?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (XuXeR)

Matt never made it to the picture...or through confirm, so he couldn't BE fired...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:17 PM (tOcjL)

424 >>"Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with Christine Fang," Nieto wrote.


Nieto is a reporter for the Daily Mail.

The one ace won't link, and neither will I, because they routinely make up shit for clicks.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (viF8m)

425 They'll have a picture of Trump's current team"

The future?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (XuXeR)

426 I want Harmeet Dhillon as AG. Her work in the civil rights division has been magnificent. Absolute tough-as-nails, smart baller. C'mon man!

Posted by: Candidus at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (b+5ub)

427
They'll be slower and even more static...b/c no one cares about an acting and he won't rock the boat to make them care...
Posted by: Nova Local

==============

Yeesh, perfect. Okay, how will things look different under the CONFIRMED guy? Whoever it is???

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (n7rxJ)

428 333 Legal scholar, John Yoo on Fox thinks it's because if the Democrats take the House They are going to automatically impeach Trump and he needs someone that has the inside Washington experience of fighting impeachment
Posted by: redridinghood

That makes sense. The last two times he seemed really worried, and was almost thrown out of office.../s

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (ycI94)

429 I want to meet/befriend three dots' wife

$20, same as in town

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (Kt19C)

430 20, same as in town

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (Kt19C)

Fuck off Lolol

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:19 PM (kNAyK)

431 374 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)
*****
The Left is energized and our side is complacent.
We definitely could lose the House and the Senate.

Agent orange knows the media better than they know themselves -- CLOVERFIELD is coming.
https://tinyurl.com/LIBs-OrangeLotus
https://y.yarn.co/3e87a2c0-e900-4bd8-a1c6-452125e2a0f0.mp4


America250 Citizen Criteria: By this definition, how many really are?
A: STARSHIP TROOPERs -- citizenship is not a birthright; it is a status earned

"The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not."

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 02, 2026 02:19 PM (K9ch3)

432 425 They'll have a picture of Trump's current team"

The future?
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (XuXeR)

2025 confirmed team with the Xs over the fired faces...

If Tulsi is out later, it becomes the easiest mailed postcard ad ever...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:19 PM (tOcjL)

433 So fuck you and also Kill Yourselves, please and thank you.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:12 PM

In that order, please.

Propriety.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:19 PM (zZu0s)

434 Buckley's proudest moment was tossing the Birchers from the conservative movement. If he were still alive, seeing him tackle the Nick Fuentes' of the Dudebro "conservative" space would have been interesting.

Except for Victor David Hanson, all the other "conservatives" at National Review fell like dominos to go NeverTrump when Trump ran. I like to think that Buckley was too smart to do that, and would have kept them in line. But I also think his ego would tell him he's better than Trump, so a man like that becoming president might have galled him enough to go NeverTrumper too. Who knows.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (Eng1Z)

435 So, Trump is also seeing a wipeout midterm...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:04 PM (tOcjL)
*****
The Left is energized and our side is complacent.
We definitely could lose the House and the Senate.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 02, 2026 02:09 PM (NpAcC)

Dem favorability is about 20 percent, and they are mostly certifiably insane on most issues.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (8avO+)

436 417 The SOROS 6 month SUMMER OFFENSIVE begins logistical ramping up June 1. Entry level rally/riot positions still open,! Sign up now
Posted by: Paul

Pride Month "ramping up"? Tell me more about the entry level stuff!

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (Y8DZL)

437 >>Trump must forego the formal Senate AG confirmation route and maneuver/force a recess appointment of an aggressive AG.

So you expect Thune to agree to a recess when neither he nor McConnell agreed to do one in 5 years because they don't want Trump making recess appointments?

Seems doubtful.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (viF8m)

438 BREAKING
Chuck Schumer ADMITS Democrats shut down DHS for nothing.
SCHUMER: “We held it up because we wanted, as I mentioned before, to reform ICE and CBP.”
. . . .
Chuck Schumer refuses to give President Trump any credit for paying employees after Democrats shut down DHS for weeks.
CNN: “Do you give him any credit for that, Senator?”
SCHUMER: “No"

-
I never knew Schmukie was only three years old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (ndZc7)

439 The initial Epstein reveal went very badly.

Posted by: MaxPower at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (FeNQl)

440 426 I want Harmeet Dhillon as AG. Her work in the civil rights division has been magnificent. Absolute tough-as-nails, smart baller. C'mon man!
Posted by: Candidus at April 02, 2026 02:18 PM (b+5ub)

She doesn't want it - makes too much money in the private sector...it's amazing she took the current job, but that is her private sector work area, so figures she'd cash in for that later...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (tOcjL)

441 2025 confirmed team with the Xs over the fired faces...

I'm gonna guess you don't know the Cabinet.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (XuXeR)

442 No idea what kind of job Bondi is really doing, but it did seem Trump was doing a bit of his own "DEI, conservative style" when he placed Bondi, Noem, and Gabbard.

Harmeet Dhillan also (another mature hot woman) but Harmeet seems like the real deal. Gabbard has been adequate, as far as I can tell.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (vbXSk)

443 Maybe the next DA can do their damned job instead of talking on Fox News constantly. For crying out loud how hard is this to figure out???

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (El6/E)

444 >>> see now I want to meet/befriend three dots' wife
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:16 PM (j+aD2)

Me too! She can come sit by me at parties.

I'm picturing a combo of the Amelia memes from that failed propaganda animation and Maggie Thatcher. Am I off?

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:22 PM (Eng1Z)

445 By the way, the left's reaction?

TRUMP ONLY FIRES WOMEN!1!!!!!11!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:22 PM (El6/E)

446 So you expect Thune to agree to a recess when neither he nor McConnell agreed to do one in 5 years because they don't want Trump making recess appointments?

Seems doubtful.
Posted by: JackStraw

I don't understand...we're all on the same team, right?

Posted by: Republican Normie Voter at April 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ycI94)

447 She doesn't want it - makes too much money in the private sector...it's amazing she took the current job, but that is her private sector work area, so figures she'd cash in for that later...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:20 PM (tOcjL)


Also, she's smart enough to know that she wouldn't accomplish more than Bondi - for the same reasons - and so her star would be tarnished.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ExV1e)

448 Trump keeps firing his inner female folks, and folks here keep applauding that...what do you think Dems will do with that in their attack ads?

They'll have a picture of Trump's current team...and point it out every single day the only folks he's fired from it...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:15 PM (tOcjL)

He's just treating them as equals, what's the problem?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (8avO+)

449 but Harmeet seems like the real deal. Gabbard has been adequate, as far as I can tell."

Bbbuttt he fired a woman! The wheels are closing in!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (XuXeR)

450 There is a Metric Fuckton of released evidence that there was a very large conspiracy within the DOJ and Whitehouse, during both the Biden and Obama Administrations, to get Trump.

Even so far as paying a STATE AG to go after him.

Yet, no charges filed. The idea that you can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham samich, does not seem to apply with the Bondi DOJ.

And somehow the DOJ can't argue effectively that Sanctuary City policies and statements, breaks the aiding and abetting law.... so Judges keep throwing the DOJ lawsuits against cities and states out.

So.... yeah... in the immortal words of that great Thespian, and Articulate Speachifier, Curly Bill Brocius?

Well.... bye...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (mP0Kj)

451 labor is still a chick
Harmeet still rocks it
I still like tulsi

so yeah nova we have stuff to be concerned about but the DEI status of the cabinet is not really a thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (j+aD2)

452 Action News, minutes ago, 'UK gathers more than 40 countries to press Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Britain has accused Iran of holding the global economy hostage as diplomats from over 40 countries discuss ways to press Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz'
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press Apr 2, 2026 Updated 13 mins ago

A simultaneous pretty please? With a cherry on top?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ndZc7)

453 Christopher Taylor, just what is the US Attorney General's job?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (+nEug)

454 Maybe the next DA can do their damned job instead of talking on Fox News constantly. For crying out loud how hard is this to figure out???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (El6/E)

Maybe she went on TV to get the image of her husband's falsies out of her head.

Hell, I am surprised she did not suck start a shotgun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)

455 Before talking yourselves into "wipeout midterm", lets let the President hold his convention, and then see where we are. I for one think he can win a bigger margin in the House (and hold the Senate too).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (eFLnD)

456 He's just treating them as equals, what's the problem?


exactly

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 02:24 PM (j+aD2)

457 441 2025 confirmed team with the Xs over the fired faces...

I'm gonna guess you don't know the Cabinet.
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (XuXeR)

Big 3 fired if Tulsi ends up gone? No one cares about the lesser roles of Ag and Labor (and Ed lady is firing herself by midterms - she's said that's her goal, so she could also be out)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 02:24 PM (tOcjL)

458 I also like AAG Harmeet Dhillon for AG.

I don't know if Bondi's doing a good job or not. Wheels of justice grind slowly.

Promised too much with the "stack of papers on my desk", then did nothing. It's okay for the president to be on Fox news so much, but the AG? Bonding never seemed to be aggressive enough.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (otJlS)

459 Harmeet Dhillan also (another mature hot woman) but Harmeet seems like the real deal. Gabbard has been adequate, as far as I can tell.
Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 02:21 PM (vbXSk)

The fact that you don't hear much from Tulsi between some decent sized announcement leads me to think she's doing good work managing our traitorous spies.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (8avO+)

460 A simultaneous pretty please? With a cherry on top?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ndZc7)

Harsh language.

Posted by: Frost at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (zZu0s)

461 abor is still a chick
Harmeet still rocks it"

Rollins is a man?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (XuXeR)

462 Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:22 PM (Eng1Z)

Amelia pretty much bang on. Thatcher far less so, she'd burn you for that one she's from a mining town - but she understands that commies are idiots and that you can't sell a country's silver.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (kNAyK)

463 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 BREAKING: Pam Bondi is being moved to a NEW position within the Trump administration, with DAG Todd Blanche stepping in as Interim Attorney General, President Trump tells Fox

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (ZxPkt)

464 OMG you two would be friends even though she generally hates women - both of you are little sparks

I have found that I tend to get along with and respect most women who don't particularly like most other women. What does that say about me?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (El6/E)

465 Hell, I am surprised she did not suck start a shotgun.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (zZu0s)
===============
I'm just surprised she didn't put him down.

Posted by: Kristi's viszla at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (eFLnD)

466 Pam, I'm not firing you, it's that the administration has no need for your sit on your hands services.
Prepare

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (YvvFZ)

467 I don't understand...we're all on the same team, right?
Posted by: Republican Normie Voter at April 02, 2026 02:22 PM (ycI94)

Wrong analogy, Rube.
We're all in the same boat is more fitting
Now get back below deck and keep rowing, you're interrupting my dinner.

Posted by: Thurston Howell the Turd, better than you at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (zafwz)

468 When does Ann Coulter get one of these positions?
She's eminently qualified. Her hair is as long and blonde as any of these other women's hair.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (0MjtC)

469 Big 3"

That's funny right there.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (XuXeR)

470 Trump has lots of women in his administration Wiles, Leavitt, Gabbard, McMahon, Chavez, Loeffler, and Rollins.. I'm sure I missed some

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (FtULh)

471 Yes because the woman loving media is so nice to Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem. What planet are they on?

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (kNAyK)

472 Action News, minutes ago, 'UK gathers more than 40 countries to press Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz
Britain has accused Iran of holding the global economy hostage as diplomats from over 40 countries discuss ways to press Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz'
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press Apr 2, 2026 Updated 13 mins ago

A simultaneous pretty please? With a cherry on top?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:23 PM (ndZc7)

You don't invite 40 countries if you want to get something done. Probably the Swiss and Chad could have stayed home for a naval operation.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (8avO+)

473 Christopher Taylor, just what is the US Attorney General's job?

As the chief of the DOJ, she's the one that makes sure that they get stuff done, directs them to take actions, and coordinates the FBI etc in their investigations and the cases they pursue.

Which, from all I can see, is not a whole hell of a lot in the past year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:26 PM (El6/E)

474 Don’t forget about my unforgettable titties!
Posted by: Alina Habba

Trust me. I won't.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (yFlgz)

475 Trump has lots of women in his administration Wiles, Leavitt, Gabbard, McMahon, Chavez, Loeffler, and Rollins.. I'm sure I missed some"

But the wheels are falling in!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (XuXeR)

476 The idea that you can get a Grand Jury to indict a ham samich, does not seem to apply with the Bondi DOJ.

Do you really believe that a holdover attorney, who hasn't been replaced because the Senate won't confirm their replacement, can get a blue city grand jury to indict a Democrat? Or that, when they fail to do that, it's the AG's fault?

And somehow the DOJ can't argue effectively that Sanctuary City policies and statements, breaks the aiding and abetting law.... so Judges keep throwing the DOJ lawsuits against cities and states out.

Do you really believe that judges have been throwing out DOJ suits because they aren't arguing effectively, as opposed to the judges being on team blue?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (ExV1e)

477 399 Ah, I see the rumor that Bondi tipped off Swalwell comes from the Daily Mail.

Ok then.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 02:14 PM (viF8m)

Then I would seriously discount it.

I think PDJT fired her last night after the dismal showing at yesterday's oral arguments on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (y171U)

478 I want an AG who is part Patton, part Vlad The Impaler

Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (ZxPkt)

479 DeSantis would be a beast in the AG role

Posted by: Jose at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (V6W16)

480 @nicksortor
·
1h
🚨 BREAKING: Pam Bondi is being moved to a NEW position within the Trump administration, with DAG Todd Blanche stepping in as Interim Attorney General, President Trump tells Fox
Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (ZxPkt)

Governor General of Free Canada.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:29 PM (8avO+)

481 >>> Amelia pretty much bang on. Thatcher far less so, she'd burn you for that one she's from a mining town - but she understands that commies are idiots and that you can't sell a country's silver.
Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (kNAyK)

Heh. More Thatcher's spine of an Iron Lady, and her willingness to call out the idiocy of socialism, is what I was thinking, and less the union issues.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:29 PM (Eng1Z)

482 part Vlad The Impaler"

Ah. We forget the old ways...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 02:29 PM (XuXeR)

483 OMG you two would be friends even though she generally hates women - both of you are little sparks

I have found that I tend to get along with and respect most women who don't particularly like most other women. What does that say about me?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (El6/E)

You'd get along well with Elaine Benes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (xT8gx)

484 I think PDJT fired her last night after the dismal showing at yesterday's oral arguments on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (y171U)


I think not.. It was obvious that the justices had already made up their mind...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (FtULh)

485 Is nood.

Posted by: Ray Davies at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (LxER7)

486 443 Maybe the next DA can do their damned job instead of talking on Fox News constantly. For crying out loud how hard is this to figure out???

The only Job, and Only Priority, is, was, and should be Indicting Brennan for not only knowing about Epstein, but actively sponsoring and defending him, like all LIBs do.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (K9ch3)

487 I think PDJT fired her last night after the dismal showing at yesterday's oral arguments on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 02:28 PM (y171U)


I think not.. It was obvious that the justices had already made up their mind...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 02:30 PM (FtULh)

Sure, but did the case presented by his side look solid or weak? That is the question.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (8avO+)

488 The Three Specific Emails (JPMorgan/Epstein Context)

The "Birthday Book" Outreach (2011): The email outlines how the bank could use Epstein's personal relationships with these men to secure them as "Ultra High Net Worth" (UHNW) clients.

The Problem for Dimon: This contradicts his 2023 testimony that he was unaware of Epstein's activities. Investigators argue that "the top floor" of the bank was actively profiting from Epstein’s "black book" long after his 2008 conviction.

The "Wall of Cash" Email (2013):
An internal JPMorgan email discussing Epstein as a "top-tier referral source" for the bank's "Wall of Cash" program. The email allegedly notes that Epstein was a primary bridge to international dignitaries and intelligence-linked figures, specifically mentioning that "compliance concerns" regarding his past conviction should be managed to keep the pipeline open.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (K9ch3)

489 Posted by: Don Black at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (ZxPkt)

really ? wow !

🤪

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (GD0B3)

490 >>> 471 Yes because the woman loving media is so nice to Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem. What planet are they on?

I was going to say...they are going to white knight the firing of a woman they hated so much, South Park depicted her as someone whose face slid off from too much plastic surgery and she shot dogs every five seconds.

Loyal to all women, they are not.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 02:31 PM (Eng1Z)

491
The Intelligence Link: This is where John Brennan’s name frequently surfaces in the 2026 inquiry.
and #3
The "Moscow/Russian" Date Email (2010):
An email from Epstein to a high-ranking contact (recently linked to the broader "Clinton network" in the files) regarding a meeting with a "clever, beautiful, trustworthy" Russian woman.

The Significance: This email is being used by the Trump DOJ to prove that Epstein was acting as a "broker" for foreign assets. If Brennan or Dimon knew Epstein was facilitating meetings between US elites and foreign nationals, their "doing nothing" moves from negligence to a national security failure.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at April 02, 2026 02:32 PM (K9ch3)

492 I have found that I tend to get along with and respect most women who don't particularly like most other women. What does that say about me?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:25 PM (El6/E)

that you like intelligent women?

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:32 PM (8avO+)

493 Uh oh.

https://is.gd/3oqZIx

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 02, 2026 02:32 PM (ndZc7)

494 392. Saudis have 75000 in their army, Qatar has about a third of that in all their armed forces.
Posted by: Oldcat

Yes, the high power pressure of the Saudis is major.

But the Houthis are...unhinged. (A good description 🤷‍♀️

International Crisis Center: The Houthis Enter the Middle East War: What Comes Next?
With the Middle East war into its second month, the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen have joined the fray with an attack on Israel, raising questions about what they may do now. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Ahmed Nagi explores factors informing the group’s calculations.
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I also don't know anything about the International Crisis Center, its leanings, its accuracy or funding.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (NFX2v)

495 I want an AG who is part Patton, part Vlad The Impaler

Yeah we need Genghis freaking Khan (not Jenjis as lurch Kerry put it). Someone who follows Conan's philosophy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (El6/E)

496 But the Houthis are...unhinged. (A good description 🤷‍♀️

International Crisis Center: The Houthis Enter the Middle East War: What Comes Next?
With the Middle East war into its second month, the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen have joined the fray with an attack on Israel, raising questions about what they may do now. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Ahmed Nagi explores factors informing the group’s calculations.
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I also don't know anything about the International Crisis Center, its leanings, its accuracy or funding.
Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 02:33 PM (NFX2v)

On what side?

Saudis had been playing army in Yemen for a while, but there is a whole desert between that front and anything important. Not seeing it as a factor.

Qatar is sitting there on its little peninsula and is pretty vulnerable if they get too sporty. The smart move would be to grab any Iran money and play good teammate.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 02:36 PM (8avO+)

497 Yeah we need Genghis freaking Khan (not Jenjis as lurch

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 02, 2026 02:35 PM (El6/E)

Wasn't it actually 'Chingis' in real life?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 02, 2026 02:37 PM (FmapG)

498 >>>468 When does Ann Coulter get one of these positions?
She's eminently qualified. Her hair is as long and blonde as any of these other women's hair.
Posted by: 29Victor
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You may go below deck and help Rube row.
... a little faster

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:43 PM (YvvFZ)

499 But the Houthis are...unhinged. (A good description 🤷‍♀️

International Crisis Center: The Houthis Enter the Middle East War: What Comes Next?
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In sequential order. ICBMs, cruise missiles, B-1 &2 bombers, F series jets, A-10 Warthogs with Blackhawks then B-52s.
Houtis, it's time to get your affairs in order.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (YvvFZ)

500 I have no problem with the right women in power. If you have some dour, stonehearted bitch in charge, she can be more ruthless than any man in the world.

Trump doesn't select for those mean bitches. He wants them photogenic, and a lady who's like "yeah, I ate the last man who fucked me" doesn't make for good press conferences.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 02:51 PM (BI5O2)

501 Which Islamic Countries are aligned with Iran as opposed to those aligned against them? "

SA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain are probably a bit peeved with Iran right now, but the situation is fluid.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:57 PM (N8ZBc)

Nobody in the area liked Iran, they just feared them. If we abandoned the anti IGRC war they might revert to that, or bomb them themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Defining "countries" hides a bit of nuance - the Sunni/Shia split.
Iran is majority Shia, and is the only Islamic country which is. Iraq has a large number of Shia, but is still majority Sunni. The first civil.war within Islam traces back to that split.
Trying to see which countries would ally with the US papers over that difference, and doesn't indicate much in the longer term.
With the exception of the Saudis, who view Iran as an existential threat to their claim of the leadership of the Muslim world, the remainder of those countries will ally with the US only on a temporary basis, and therefore cannot be counted on for much beyond press releases. But... when the kinetic part is over and we pull most of our forces out of the way, they will turn on Iran visciously.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 03:13 PM (DAQKj)

502 .
.
Pam Bondi dindu nuffin, homes.

Posted by: Marooned at April 02, 2026 04:07 PM (kt8QE)

503 Another casualty of Epstein.

Posted by: Paul at April 02, 2026 04:16 PM (rp/sk)

504 I think Candice Owens wanted to be Ms. Charlie Kirk and still nurses a grudge against Erika Kirk because she got there first. Charlie and Erika started dating in 2019 and at the same time Owens left TPUSA. Kirk married Erika in 2021.

Scorned women will do all sorts of crazy ass shit. Not saying Charlie or Erika did a single thing wrong, more likely being scorned is all in Owen's head. She imagined herself marrying him someday, then along comes this blonde bimbo and takes the slot she wanted. Owens thinks she could be the grieving widow heading up TPUSA right now. She thinks someone must have conspired to keep her from this wonderful future she was destined for.

By the way, people forget she was hard core anti Republican and anti-trump in 2016. Claimed to be a conservative in 2017. Only worked at TPUSA in 2018 and 2019.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:24 PM (D7v4F)

505 Bondi has made a number of unforced errors. I like Zeldin a lot, but I'm not sure he is the right guy.

Posted by: The Whine Guy at April 02, 2026 05:26 PM (D7v4F)

506 I'm with Candace
I'll still read Ace's headlines tho

Posted by: Pkeaton at April 02, 2026 06:01 PM (YVXDe)

Trump Promotes Douglas Murray Article Blasting Tucker Carlson as a Sharia-Law-Promoting Holocaust-Denying Backstabber

Ryan Saavedra
@RyanSaavedra


President Trump posts an article by Douglas Murray that highlights Tucker Carlson's extremism, embrace of Islamists, and America Last:

The article is titled: "Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump"

Several of the top lines in the piece include:

-"While the president has advocated a strong defense of America's regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes."

-"His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists."

-"While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin."

-"While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else. While saying 'We're not allowed to talk about Jews,' he has talked about nothing but Jews."

-"This culminated in Carlson calling Trump's actions 'evil.' ... From being Trump cheerleaders, Carlson & co. are trying to do everything they can to destroy the president."

Murray's piece at the NYP is here.

In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.

Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar -- yet has still survived.

This week, part of the noisy right-wing online podcast-sphere again turned on the president.

Leading the virtual charge, again, was Trump's one-time cheerleader, Tucker Carlson.

There was a time when Carlson was fully Team Trump.

I don't think so. Fox had to release Tucker Carlson's texts and emails during the Dominion lawsuit and Carlson stated he "truly hated" Trump and couldn't wait for Comey and Jack Smith to take him out so that he'd never have to hear from Trump again.

A lot of craven opportunists jumped on the MAGA bandwagon not because they supported Trump or MAGA, but because Trump represented a disruptive force that could break the ice of conservabot doctrine and reshape the right into something new. These opportunists -- these grifters, often actually white supremacists and Nazis and not just in the left-wing "this person disagrees with me so he must be a Nazi" way -- saw Trump's power to shatter old smug conservabot certainties and reform the pieces of the Republican coalition into a shape he preferred. These grifters did not support Trump's vision of what the re-made party should look like. They had a dark, extremist, and yes frankly Nazi/White Supremacist agenda. They just temporarily supported Trump because their goals equally relied upon shattering the old conservabot/neocon alliance. And they hoped that by sucking up to Trump, they could convince him that their totally-new ideas about white supremacy and anti-Jewish hatred should finally be given a try. (Like communism, Real Naziism has never been tried.) And even if Trump refused to bend to their will, why, as long as they were seen as close to Trump, they could emerge as his successors after Trump was term-limited and retired.

Carlson often appeared at Trump rallies as part of the warmup act.


But in the past year, he has tried to lead the MAGA base away from Trump and down a very dark path.

Fortunately, the Trump base hasn't followed him there.

The president's strong Middle East policy seems to have particularly deranged his one-time supporter.

While the president has advocated a strong defense of America's regional allies, Carlson has spent 100% of his time trying to turn the MAGA base against Israel and in favor of Islamist regimes.

His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists.

While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.

Quite an achievement.

Undermining

While accusing everyone else of being obsessed with Israel, Carlson has obsessed about nothing else.

While saying "We're not allowed to talk about Jews," he has talked about nothing but Jews.

This obsession has culminated in a total derangement over the president's Iran policy.

Carlson and other people in the right-wing podcast-sphere pretend to be confused by the president acting to stop the mullahs from getting an atomic bomb.

At one and the same time, they say Iran was never seeking nuclear weapons. And that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons.

They pretend the Iranians were nowhere near having a nuclear weapon. But that it would be understandable if they were.

This culminated in Carlson calling Trump's actions "evil."

And suggesting he has once again been manipulated by, well -- guess who?

From being Trump cheerleaders, Carlson & co. are trying to do everything they can to destroy the president.

It is true.

Meanwhile, Candace Owens has made it explicit and commanded her deranged, retarded followers to acquit the gay furry leftist murderer of her "best friend" Charlie Kirk.


Who could have predicted this>

From last June:

She's a literal madwoman. Oh, she's also evil and demonic, but she is a schizophrenic lunatic. There is literally not one bizarre conspiracy theory she does not believe in passionately.

Ghosts tell her secret conspiracy theories about bees in dreams and she feels "vibes" and there is no higher standard of evidence than that.

So does Tucker, for that matter:



Happy Thursday!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:13 PM




Comments

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1 Morning Ace.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:14 PM (ExV1e)

3 Willowed:
210 As I mentioned, VA and the enormous outside donated funds are making a play for every female vote for the redistricting. What better way to AGAIN seal a VA election than to put out rumors that Trump is ditching or mad at EVERY high level female on his staff...

So, that's the play now with the VA election at 19 days to go and huge new early voting spots opening Saturday.

VA's 4 seats are a Dems dream...so they will do ANYTHING to get them...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (tOcjL)

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

4 Morning!

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:16 PM (1wjle)

5
Comfortably nestled among the top ten.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (iJfKG)

6 These people are funny.

No, seriously. Makes a great comedy skit.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (XuXeR)

7
CandiO sports the googly eyes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (xG4kz)

8 Top Ten again. Who would have thunk it?

Posted by: Diabeetus at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (sgrzZ)

9 I am hopeful that if I take a lot of creatine I can really focus and get half or more of tomorrow's posts written today so I can start the Easter weekend early.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)

10 spring cleaning. good.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (GD0B3)

11 I wonder if she's going to claim that the Artemis mission is a hoax?

Posted by: Josephistan at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (y9ksN)

12 In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.
---------

See: "Et tu Brute"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

13 Social Blade indicates Carlson's shows are increasing dramatically in subs and views. We are a retarded nation.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfb5awk

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:18 PM (abIsI)

14 Who is Douglas Murray?

Posted by: I gotta ask at April 02, 2026 12:18 PM (2Ez/1)

15 Jeebus, Tucker is way up Ace's butt. First rule, determine who is paying Tucker. Methinks it is the Arabs or the Manhattans. Just not sure.

My biggest question is why British Chicks morph into manly gentlewomen as they age? And then there are the British Toofins.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 12:18 PM (n17eQ)

16 Effing bloodsucking parasites. Makes me want to go through the lot with a flamethrower.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 02, 2026 12:18 PM (OUMaO)

17 Douglas Murray could make a career going after people in the US media.

A lot of people could.

Probably be best to break up the work because the evil and stupid overflows....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (Sco7b)

18 >>>12 I wonder if she's going to claim that the Artemis mission is a hoax?

well she doesn't believe we landed on the moon and has proclaimed that space itself is "fake and gay"

real intellectual here

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (1wjle)

19 "A lot of craven opportunists jumped on the MAGA bandwagon not because they supported Trump or MAGA, but because Trump represented a disruptive force that could break the ice of conservabot doctrine and reshape the right into something new."

I dunno, that might be part of it for some of these clowns. But I don't think it was mostly about reshaping doctrine or policy. It was mostly about cold hard cash.

I think they're whoring remoras and saw an opportunity to attach themselves to a very big fish. They milked the Trump Train that for all it was worth, and then saw new whoring opportunities as anti-Trump crusaders.

They follow the money. No matter what.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

20 And in this post, we’re all supposed to pretend Tucker Carlson is a bigger danger to our side than the ‘Rats’

Not even a fraction.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

21 I'm thinking that Thorazine gummies should be handed out by the pallet load for some people.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (+4yJ5)

22 There has got to be a back story to the Carlson and Owens descent into madness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (AkEZC)

23 I think Tucker has a pork tapeworm larva lodged in his brain.

I call him Worm Brain for short.

Posted by: RFK Jr. at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (/1l9x)

24 But has he ever been there?

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 12:20 PM (cpys8)

25 Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are disgusting people. No they’re not crazy or insane… they know exactly what they’re doing. I don’t know if their motivations are money or hate or what… but they’re doing these things intentionally; there’s no crazy excuse here

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:20 PM (uq8Bc)

26 I wonder if she's going to claim that the Artemis mission is a hoax?"

It is SO CHEESE!!!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:20 PM (XuXeR)

27 Douglas Murray recognizes the biggest threat to civilization is Islam.

He's trying to sound the alarm but not enough are listening.


Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

28 >>>0 There is definitely room for rugged individualism and differences of opinion inside conservative circles, which is why we must ostracize and unperson Tucker Carlson for his opposing view.

We are not drones.

Should we support Adam Schiff and Eric Swallwell too? We wouldn't want to ostracize them for their opposing views either, right?

This is what you Nazis do not get: You are not my ally with a different view. You are my enemy. I have no desire to align or ally with you, ever, and in fact would vote for a liberal Democrat to keep you out of power.

You are my enemy. Stop your faggoty cloying whining about me "ostracizing" you. I ostracize my enemies. Sometimes, as with Iran's mullahs, I actually support killing them.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (1wjle)

29 I'm thinking that Thorazine gummies should be handed out by the pallet load for some people."

Hmmm. Not bad, not bad at all...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (XuXeR)

30 I saw The Whoring Remoras open for The Dead Milkmen at the Troc in 88. They kicked sss!

Posted by: Josephistan at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (y9ksN)

31 That video is something else... AI is scary

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (FtULh)

32 are we clear now, Champ?

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (1wjle)

33 There has got to be a back story to the Carlson and Owens descent into madness.

Posted by: Martini Farmer


No need to descend to get where you've always been.

Tucker's always been a grifter, following the breeze to where the money blows.

Owens has always been a nutjob.

Sometimes the answers really are that simple.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (OUMaO)

34 Who is Douglas Murray?

A European homosexual atheist.
Posted by: Definitely Not a Drone at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (qVrCy)

fuck off , banned troll

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (GD0B3)

35 European homosexual atheists.

Is there anything they DON'T know?

Posted by: Homer Simpson at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (2Ez/1)

36 I think the puppet video might be AI. Shocking, I know.

Also, Nova Local, that's a very interesting theory. It makes sense.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (Riz8t)

37 >>>34 That video is something else... AI is scary

yup. creep city.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (1wjle)

38 I’m not a big fan of Douglas Murray… mainly because he’s so smug it’s off putting…. But there’s no denying he’s smart and usually on the correct side of the argument

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (uq8Bc)

39 The Nutter Lunatic Fringe cohort must be bigger than I thought for sustaining the likes of Carlson and Owens.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (pDt9x)

40 creatine is pretty great I have to admit!

on my doctor's rec I stopped all my supplements and just do daily creatine (and fiber stuff I forget what it's called)

all my labs were BETTER this year and I have felt fantastic! I can work later at night again rather than it just being "sleepy time" lol

also Tucker is an ass, a smacked ass, a crum bum, etc etc

always been pretty obvious to me. and no he was never "pro trump"

CRUMB. BUMS. the lot of them!

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:22 PM (j+aD2)

41 Who is Douglas Murray?"

Anne Murray's brother? Sister? Who knows...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

42 Trump Promotes Douglas Murray Article Blasting Tucker Carlson as a Sharia-Law-Promoting Holocaust-Denying Backstabber

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Ah, a SLPHDB.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (1VQ1H)

43 Look you guys! We have Cucker Tarlon fangirl here! what an original thinker! Tell us about chemtrails, neocons and Ishrael!

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (GD0B3)

44 I like Murray. he has a lovely voice.

and he's smart

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (j+aD2)

45 Sometimes the answers really are that simple."

Yep.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

46 Candace Owens is morphing into ET.

Candace phone home.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (IifOV)

47 >>>46 Look you guys! We have Cucker Tarlon fangirl here! what an original thinker! Tell us about chemtrails, neocons and Ishrael!

don't ostracize someone with Different Views, fascist!!!

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (1wjle)

48 But has he ever been there?"

Have you ever been mellow?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (XuXeR)

49 Cucker is a leftist, always was. Just like all of them , got on a maga bandwagon, because they could no vote for Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (GD0B3)

50 47 I like Murray. he has a lovely voice.

and he's smart
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (j+aD2)

Wicked smart . I've seen him on Gutfeld of all places..

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (FtULh)

51 Who is Douglas Murray?

Didn't he have a dance studio for ballroom dancing?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (IifOV)

52 This week, on the Cucker Tarlson podcast, we'll hear from historian L.U.Natic who has uncovered evidence that it was actually Jews who bombed Pearl Harbor in order to bring the US into the war against the peace loving people of Germany. -- Cucker Tarlson

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:24 PM (ExV1e)

53 Look you guys! We have Cucker Tarlon fangirl here! what an original thinker! Tell us about chemtrails, neocons and Ishrael!

The only possible reason to disagree with him is because you're a sheep who's afraid to follow the facts. Or, you know, because you're not an idiot.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

54 The socialist anti-Israel NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a secret zionist agent

-
Where's the World Weekly News now that we need them?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:26 PM (1VQ1H)

55 "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
For the second time, loser, your argument is sh*t"

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 12:26 PM (eBcaT)

56 Who is Douglas Murray?"

Anne Murray's brother? Sister? Who knows...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

The lady who sang You Needed Me?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:26 PM (uq8Bc)

57 I wonder who Owens paymaster might be.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:26 PM (pDt9x)

58 21 And in this post, we’re all supposed to pretend Tucker Carlson is a bigger danger to our side than the ‘Rats’

Not even a fraction.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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The problem with traitors inside the gate is that they intentionally open the gates to the enemy. Same way that the Dugin-Bannon-Flynn-Fuentes-Owens-Tucker demoralization campaign for midterms is in full swing and aimed directly at those who 'think' they are rugged individualists that think for themselves.

Same with the Just Asking Questions to come up with absurd theories like faked moon landings, Charlie Kirk's political assassination done by whoever rather the leftist furry trannies, aliens, or whatever other conspiracy theory blaming Jews for every evil in the world is bullshit.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)

59 And in this post, we’re all supposed to pretend Tucker Carlson is a bigger danger to our side than the ‘Rats’

Like Thune and Miss Lindsey? Where are the posts about the Republicans holding up Trump nominations? All while an Obama appointed Indian Judge just ruled that Trump's J6 speech isn't protected.

I don't give a fuck about Tucker. He's been right a lot more than he's been wrong. I don't for a second he is beyond reproach. Maybe he's getting paid. Maybe he's being blackmailed. Who cares. He doesn't hold any real power.

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (cpys8)

60 60 I wonder who Owens paymaster might be.


she's so out there she probably costs not too much

could be anyone

my dry cleaner

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (j+aD2)

61 Have you ever been mellow?


Yes, but someone harshed it. Bummer.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (Riz8t)

62 It was the Jews who sank the Titanic! Iceberg, Goldberg, same thing!

Posted by: Tucker Carlson at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

63 If you were to see the expanded photo of Ribbentrop and Stalin shaking hands, you'll see someone vaguely resembling Tucker in the crowd of people surrounding them, heartily applauding.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (5yDGQ)

64 Ghosts tell her secret conspiracy theories about bees in dreams and she feels "vibes"

Whoa

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (Kt19C)

65 Douglas Murray is an odd duck. He's a smart guy and often correct on most policy issues. But he gets it very very wrong a significant portion of time.

He was a yuge Ukraine cheerleader, for example. There was very little daylight between his stance on Ukraine and ... Joe Biden's.

He openly identifies as a Bushie-style neocon, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

66 There is definitely room for rugged individualism and differences of opinion inside conservative circles, which is why we must ostracize and unperson Tucker Carlson for his opposing view.

We are not drones.

Posted by: Definitely Not a Drone at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (qVrCy)
==
Well, I am happy to listen to opposing views. But Tucker has been on the Jews control kick for how long now? At a certain point, you say, sorry, that's just too stupid to keep listening to you.

I have no idea what Tucker's motivations are besides money. I assume that is the greatest one.I don't think he has any strongly held beliefs besides that. And space aliens.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (GZYu7)

67 The problem with traitors inside the gate is that they intentionally open the gates to the enemy

exactly

oh and btw I'm seeing a lot of this here, which is upsetting.

I guess it's midterm season

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:28 PM (j+aD2)

68 The lady who sang You Needed Me?"

Si.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:28 PM (XuXeR)

69 >>There is definitely room for rugged individualism and differences of opinion inside conservative circles, which is why we must ostracize and unperson Tucker Carlson for his opposing view.


He ain't gonna fuck you, little bro.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:28 PM (TLp3A)

70 Cleopatra Jones >>> Candace Owens

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (iFTx/)

71 Show me on the Candace puppet where Trump touched you.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (abIsI)

72 >>> And in this post, we’re all supposed to pretend Tucker Carlson is a bigger danger to our side than the ‘Rats’


you're both my enemies. I don't have to say which is "worse." I have no interest in hearing "Interesting Theories" from either of you.

The communist scam: You must align with Communists to defend against Nazis


The Nzzi scam: You must align with Nazis to defend against Communists

fuck you both to hell. How about that?

Can I make it clearer? You seem to have a hard time understanding simple sentences.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (1wjle)

73
TEH JOOS ATE MY BABY!!!!

Posted by: Cucker Tarleson at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (y9nCu)

74 Trump said the other day that he thinks Erica Kirk should probably sue the "people" slandering her.....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (FtULh)

75 While back, I think I saw Laura Loomer on X say she believes Tucker has converted to Islam.

LOL

I think we should push that; make the SOB deny it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (HXT0k)

76
I wish ghosts would tell me the winning numbers for the lottery,

but alas all they tell me is their recipe for German potato salad.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (iJfKG)

77 65 It was the Jews who sank the Titanic! Iceberg, Goldberg, same thing!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (y9ksN)

Only a diamond-tipped iceberg can cut into a steel hull like that! -Tucker C

Posted by: Rex B at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (DqQS/)

78 I am hopeful that if I take a lot of creatine I can really focus and get half or more of tomorrow's posts written today so I can start the Easter weekend early.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:17 PM (1wjle)


Or... you could say, "Fuck it, barring something big breaking I'm going to throw up some open threads and relax in my rocker."

Most of us would agree that you've earned some downtime.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (ExV1e)

79 >>I don't give a fuck about Tucker. He's been right a lot more than he's been wrong


Nice assertion. Care to provide any examples of his Sage wisdom?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (TLp3A)

80 Foxxy Cleopatra>>>>(ok, sorta)>>Cleopatra Jones >>> Candace Owens

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (XuXeR)

81 >>>I wish ghosts would tell me the winning numbers for the lottery,

ghosts told me that garret has sex with gay bees

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (1wjle)

82 To be fair, I do not truly think she believes any of the theories. They get her clicks, end of story.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)

83 What I have learned over the past couple years is that everyone in the social media/podcast space eventually turns on everyone who they once promoted or platformed. Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see seems to be a good rule to follow.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 02, 2026 12:30 PM (QaH55)

84 If you were to see the expanded photo of Ribbentrop and Stalin shaking hands, you'll see someone vaguely resembling Tucker in the crowd of people surrounding them, heartily applauding.

You know the famous picture showing Stalin and Yezhov, and Yezhov gets airbrushed out? That wasn't really Yezhov. It was Tucker. They didn't want him to become too well known so they superimposed Yezhov's picture. Now you know.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

85 I miss Fred MacMurray.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

86 And in this post, we’re all supposed to pretend Tucker Carlson is a bigger danger to our side than the ‘Rats’


===

Exactly. He is inside the house, and thus more dangerous. He is a dem, trying to influence Trump's base against Trump who gave him validity.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (GD0B3)

87 >>Or... you could say, "Fuck it, barring something big breaking I'm going to throw up some open threads and relax in my rocker."

thank you for that suggestion, but that's my plan for Monday. I don't think i can just post open threads on both days. Though I might slip one or even two in on Friday.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (1wjle)

88 Murray shows courage. He reports from war zones, and he debates opponents frequently.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (eBcaT)

89 *Well, I am happy to listen to opposing views. But Tucker has been on the Jews control kick for how long now? At a certain point, you say, sorry, that's just too stupid to keep listening to you.

I have no idea what Tucker's motivations are besides money. I assume that is the greatest one.I don't think he has any strongly held beliefs besides that. And space aliens.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM*
-----

Kinda how I feel about Glenn Beck.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 02, 2026 12:32 PM (2Ez/1)

90 Care to provide any examples of his Sage wisdom?"

Parsley, Rosmary, and Thyme?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:32 PM (XuXeR)

91 I was curious what Tucker's "being right" since he went out on his own have been?

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (GZYu7)

92 Social Blade indicates Carlson's shows are increasing dramatically in subs and views. We are a retarded nation.

- View botting is a thing. What better way for his paymasters to hide their influence than to pay to have someone create new viewers?
- Does SB differentiate these metrics based on region? It matters less if all of Pakistan is on the edge of their seat for his latest offering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

93 I had to look. Sorry, this is fun.

Tucker Carlson has 6.3 million followers on Instagram
Candace Owens....6.4 million
Joy Behar....158,000
President Trump....44.1 million
JimmyKimmel live...5.8 million
Stephen Colbert....1.2 million
Don Lemon....2.8 million

Must do stuff....

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (Sco7b)

94 I wish ghosts would tell me the winning numbers for the lottery,

but alas all they tell me is their recipe for German potato salad.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (iJfKG)


Can you share that recipe?? German potato salad is sooooooo good!

Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (LVvlK)

95 Jeebus. That last video is disturbing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (A5RD0)

96 Jimminy Kimmel has 5.8 mil? How many are bots?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

97 "Who is Douglas Murray?"

HOF'er Eddie Murray's brotha from anotha motha.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (KAi1n)

98 >>>85 To be fair, I do not truly think she believes any of the theories. They get her clicks, end of story.

It is hard to tell because she has the skill of a psychopath in seeming to believe everything she says, even if it's a total lie. Psychopaths have that ability because they do not feel social shame and also have no moral code against lying. In fact, they like lying which is why they frequently grin while lying. The Duper's Grin --they get off on thinking they're superior to you because they told a lie and you believe it.

Psychopaths really screw normal people up. Normal people think that they can tell when someone is lying because they will appear awkward, uncomfortable, and nervous about being found out. Psychopaths do not feel that at all and so can lie with seemingly 100% conviction.

So I have no idea what this nasty whore believes or not.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (1wjle)

99 - View botting is a thing. What better way for his paymasters to hide their influence than to pay to have someone create new viewers?
- Does SB differentiate these metrics based on region? It matters less if all of Pakistan is on the edge of their seat for his latest offering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

Was it someone here who mentioned view bot farms with rooms of cell phones?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (bss/y)

100 Who names their kid Tucker?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (UjdFS)

101 Never discount the possibility of demonic possession.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (qFwJc)

102 100 Who names their kid Tucker?
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (UjdFS)

Someone who names their other son Buckley

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (FtULh)

103 >>>92 Social Blade indicates Carlson's shows are increasing dramatically in subs and views. We are a retarded nation.

but are his new viewers from our nation?

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (1wjle)

104 Can you share that recipe??"

Requires a large quantity of Sudetenland...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (XuXeR)

105 94 Care to provide any examples of his Sage wisdom?"

Parsley, Rosmary, and Thyme?

Whiskey, Guns, and Boobs.

Posted by: morigu at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (U2YN7)

106 that puppet thing is disturbing but I think that was the point

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (j+aD2)

107 Soviet agitprop, with which Cucker is extremely familiar, always wrapped a bit of truth into their brainwash lies. To give themselves credibility and deniability (Soviet citizens learned to see it a mile away. Iranians can tell mullah propaganda a mile away. ) This way their boosters could always say , "see we were right right here!". Nice try.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

108


Member when they were trying to push her as the next Regis and Kathie Lee with billboards and all that.

Must have been some crazy shit going on behind the scenes.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at April 02, 2026 12:35 PM (et1vG)

109 Psychopaths really screw normal people up. Normal people think that they can tell when someone is lying because they will appear awkward, uncomfortable, and nervous about being found out. Psychopaths do not feel that at all and so can lie with seemingly 100% conviction.

So I have no idea what this nasty whore believes or not.


What?

Posted by: Bill and Hillary, and BO at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (Riz8t)

110 Nice assertion. Care to provide any examples of his Sage wisdom?

That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (cpys8)

111
Can I make it clearer? You seem to have a hard time understanding simple sentences.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (1wjle)




Boss, I recommend typing in crayon.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (y9nCu)

112 Can you share that recipe?? German potato salad is sooooooo good!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (LVvlK)

The Amish make great potato salad, but they're really Dutch. From Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (QaH55)

113 So I have no idea what this nasty whore believes or not."

This.

"Ohhhh, it's sooo big"

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (XuXeR)

114 It was the Jews who sank the Titanic! Iceberg, Goldberg, same thing!

Wait, Jonah Goldberg sank the Titanic? Are you saying he's so fat he's an iceberg now?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (2ocoG)

115 I appreciate both Douglas Murray for taking the time (2 weeks ago) and President Trump for amplifying the message.

Tucker is quite simply a textbook propagandist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (RIvkX)

116 Psychopaths really screw normal people up.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (1wjle)

I'll agree on this one. The eyes do not match the body language. Usually a slightly affected way of speaking. Laugh at the wrong times. Usually my gut says 'Hey, bitch/dude be crazy.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

117 I'm a little disappointed they didn't have Tim Pool as a puppet. With his little knot douchehat and all.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (abIsI)

118 >>>106 that puppet thing is disturbing but I think that was the point

Breaking: A24 buys the puppet video, plans to make a full movie of it

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (1wjle)

119 knit

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (abIsI)

120 >>Social Blade indicates Carlson's shows are increasing dramatically in subs and views. We are a retarded nation.


Intel Agencies and Foreign Governments are balls deep View and Sub botting.



Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (TLp3A)

121 "These grifters did not support Trump's vision of what the re-made party should look like."

The funny thing is, Trump's vision is just that the GOP carry out its own platform in support of the country it supposedly loves.

The platform is radical only because the GOP establishment is vermin.

Posted by: Bubba at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (3NlIr)

122 Was it someone here who mentioned view bot farms with rooms of cell phones?"

Yeah. It's hysterical. And the googles deletes that stuff in .002 seconds...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

123 CandiO sports the googly eyes
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Speaking of googly eyes . . .

With all that’s happening in the world, the BBC is out here testing whether googly eyes scare seagulls away

That's science! And speaking of science . . .

Al Gore says none of the climate predictions were wrong, so let’s revisit the one where Florida disappears

-
So suck on that, haters!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (1VQ1H)

124 Neighbor has a Labradoodle named Tucker. Nice dog, not an asshole. I laugh every time I pet him.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (pDt9x)

125 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (7Q7Ca)

126 100 Who names their kid Tucker?
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:34 PM (UjdFS)

Vintage Car innovation fans?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (bss/y)

127 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (7Q7Ca)

128 Tucker Carlson, Kelly, Owens, and so on climbed out on this limb, and it's just about been sliced from under them.

Hamas has been wrecked. Hezbollah's been wrecked. Iran's been wrecked. They find themselves, amazingly, in the camp of their Arab neighbors for the first time ever. They're undefeated in yet another season of the conflict.

There aren't many enemies left for them to devastate, at least for the time being.

Sure, there will be mopping up for them to do - it's a big mess. But Israel won... sorry losers, you'll just have to choke on those sour "grapes" in your mouths.

In a year's time, most people will have moved on from "Buh Muh Jews" and they'll be shouting at an ever-shrinking audience about Jews who aren't in the headlines anymore.

Candace is probably in the best position, since she can always claim Xi Jinping had a butthole reconstruction after his gay affair with Trump, or whatever. But the others have sort of staked everything on the Jews.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (BI5O2)

129 59 Who is Douglas Murray?"

Anne Murray's brother? Sister? Who knows...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:23 PM (XuXeR)

The lady who sang You Needed Me?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:26 PM (uq8Bc)

And her greatest hit CD is actually in my CD player now. Alabama is next. I'm giving Meatloaf a break.q

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (Sco7b)

130 because the GOP establishment is vermin."

HEY!

/Rats, Mice, and Vermin Local 254

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:38 PM (XuXeR)

131 well she doesn't believe we landed on the moon and has proclaimed that space itself is "fake and gay"

Space is fake and gay. It’s vacuous and full of sparklies. And has just been penetrated with a powerful thrusting “ship” filled with seamen.

Well, seaman. Looks like the other three are decoys.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 12:39 PM (EXyHK)

132 Tucker's message is: America Last.
Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Darryl Cooper, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, all America Last.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 12:39 PM (RIvkX)

133 Wait, Jonah Goldberg sank the Titanic? Are you saying he's so fat he's an iceberg now?

Nah, an object must be hard to punch a hole through steel. Jonah as the rigidity of an amoeba. He's simply envelop the ship by phagocytosis.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

134 and has proclaimed that space itself is "fake and gay"

real intellectual here
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM


I'm standing right here, you know.

Oh, the pain....

Posted by: Dr. Smith at April 02, 2026 12:39 PM (kgE5c)

135 I wish ghosts would tell me the winning numbers for the lottery,

but alas all they tell me is their recipe for German potato salad.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:29 PM (iJfKG)

Can you share that recipe?? German potato salad is sooooooo good!
Posted by: Doof at April 02, 2026 12:33 PM (LVvlK)


Well...the tough part is finding ghost potatoes to make it.

Sometimes you can find them at Whole Foods listed as Spectral Spuds but then they cost a lot more.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:39 PM (iJfKG)

136 I'm going to be interested in where JD Vance stands on his supposed friend Carlson now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (qBdHI)

137 Vintage Car innovation fans?"

"innovation" or "shameless self promoter of stuff that sounded good, but actually didn't, you know.... work"

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (XuXeR)

138 Happy Passover, btw.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (TLp3A)

139 >>That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.

wrong. Most of us had problems with him -- the open admiration of Putin, lying about Russia being economically advanced, just full-on communist ball-washing -- but we repressed criticism for the "hey guys we're all on the same team" bullshit reason you're now whining about.

At some point -- I think when he openly declared Hitler to have been the Good Guy in World War Two -- we decided we're NOT on the same team and so we do not have to suppress criticism just for the sake of politeness.

I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

140 Is Tucker related to Friar Tuck?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (n17eQ)

141 Reminds me of when Trump and Elon were supposedly on the outs.

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (iFEms)

142 Meatloaf sucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (7Q7Ca)

143 Types, delets

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (YlWIZ)

144 I think after solid few month of polls that show that MAGA is 100% behind Trump, with even those who identify as R, are in the 90% range, we can say that all the Cuckers , and Joe Kents, and Temu Cuckers like Posobiec (how did this low IQ monkey become famous anyway, I suspect hanging around Kirk) are only relevant to a solid 1% of Q aficionados.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (GD0B3)

145 A jewish firm recently trashed the work I was doing for my company and got me fired so they could get the company's business

I have now concluded that based on this experience that all jews are evil

Please send me $5 million for providing this astoundingly brilliant and forward thinking insight, after all my cybertruck does not pay for itself

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (REq0p)

146 thank you for that suggestion, but that's my plan for Monday. I don't think i can just post open threads on both days. Though I might slip one or even two in on Friday.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (1wjle)


Counting on nothing happening over the weekend is a bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (ExV1e)

147 >>>127 Top o' the nooner to ya, Ace!

thank you. You too!

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (1wjle)

148 Bet the kids at school had a few choice nicknames for Tucker.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (UjdFS)

149 I'm giving Meatloaf a break"

Meatloaf live w/the backup singer in a sorta Dallas Cowgirls outfit.

She's quite... bunkworthy.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (XuXeR)

150 Can you share that recipe?? German potato salad is sooooooo good!

German Potato Salad, My Way

 6 Potatoes
 6 Slices Table Rite Bacon (diced)
 1 Small Onion, Minced
 1/3 Cup Vinegar
 1 tsp. Salt
 Pinch of Pepper
 1/3 Cup Sour Cream
 2 tsp. Chopped Parsley

Boil potatos in their skins, peel and slice. Fry bacon until crisp. Remove bacon and brown onion in bacon fat. Add and blend in vinegar, salt, pepper, and sour cream. Put cooked and sliced potatoes in a bowl with the bacon, over this pour mixture and chopped parsley. Mix and blend well. Serve hot on platter or in bowl, garnished with watercress, hard cooked eggs, sliced or in wedges also may be used.

Posted by: Eddie Doucette, Ghost Chef at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (EXyHK)

151 Well, seaman. Looks like the other three are decoys.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

*Snort* ISWYDT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 12:42 PM (u82oZ)

152 >>>Counting on nothing happening over the weekend is a bold move, Cotton.

yeah but the kind of big huge news that I *have* to post is also easy to post and also enjoyable to post. It's not a grind to just post on one big event.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:42 PM (1wjle)

153 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.

You only say that because you refuse to acknowledge that Churchill killed all the Joos.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:42 PM (Riz8t)

154 Bet the kids at school had a few choice nicknames for Tucker.
Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (UjdFS)



I bet one, specifically.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:42 PM (7Q7Ca)

155 > Meatloaf sucked.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (EXyHK)

156 Well, seaman. Looks like the other three are decoys."

Those aren't decoys flying around...

/NASA Space toilet

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (XuXeR)

157 That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.

Israel fixation is the world's most midwit position. "Lots of Democrats are Jewish, so they're controlled by Israel, herp derp". A ton of prominent Democrats are Catholic, including the most recent former president, so does the retard pope from Chicago have his hand up Nancy Pelosi's butt to make her mouth move?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (2ocoG)

158 Tucker?
I just met her!

Posted by: Rimshot at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (2Ez/1)

159 >>>Married Catholic woman with 3 kids is a 'nasty whore', but retweeting the sodomite.

catholic, right. In a fake and gay marriage to a gay man.

>>>Conservative, indeed.


I'm whatever you're NOT, Nazi.

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (1wjle)

160 Hey ace do us a solid and zap a troll. It’s our birthday or something. Thanks boss.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (pDt9x)

161 Meatloaf sucked.

You took the words right out of my mouth."

*golf clap*

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:44 PM (XuXeR)

162 144 I think after solid few month of polls that show that MAGA is 100% behind Trump, with even those who identify as R, are in the 90% range, we can say that all the Cuckers , and Joe Kents, and Temu Cuckers like Posobiec (how did this low IQ monkey become famous anyway, I suspect hanging around Kirk) are only relevant to a solid 1% of Q aficionados.
--------------------------------
I'm not sure they're even that popular. I just assume all online discourse is fake and guy anymore.

Or Muslim, which is also fake and gay.

Posted by: the lower depths at April 02, 2026 12:44 PM (PrKv7)

163 That's not sour cream.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:44 PM (UjdFS)

164 Tucker is a bonehead.

It is well-settled that you can't turn MAGA against Trump, turn MAGA against MAGA goals, or weave in your own personal pet politics into MAGA and try to get MAGA to accept it as mainstream.

I would be "shocked" to find that his, Megyn's, and Candace's financiers are the same as that for the No Kings astroturf.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:44 PM (dK+Kv)

165 I just assume all online discourse is fake and guy anymore."

Well, I'm a guy...

/oh

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (XuXeR)

166 golf clap

For crying out loud…

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (EXyHK)

167 "A lot of craven opportunists jumped on the MAGA bandwagon not because they supported Trump or MAGA, but because Trump represented a disruptive force that could break the ice of conservabot doctrine and reshape the right into something new."

This part I'll quibble on. Remember the timeline. 2020-2021. J6 Reichstag has gone off. The rat caged are getting snapped on. Thousands of J6 guys in jail and them firing up the house undemocrat committee. Social media working in lockstep.

Tucker is getting booted off Fox (the whole thing with the Lawsuit.) He is speaking out for free speech and is getting throttled as much as they possibly can. Elon buys twitter. Things start to move. He offers Tucker a platform. Remember the millions of views his first video had on the new X?

What I am saying is that I have spoken up for Tucker for speaking out on free speech in the face of literal star chambers even when everything looked fucking grim. Elon and to a lesser extent him did a lot to open things back up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

168 158 That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.


Wrong of course.. I can't speak for everyone but long before his "new" hate of Israel and Trump for that matter, I thought he was wacko for his UFO alien beliefs....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (FtULh)

169 Hey ace do us a solid and zap a troll. It’s our birthday or something. Thanks boss.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (pDt9x)



Well, it IS JJ's birthday, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (7Q7Ca)

170 Meatloaf and potato salad.

So it's a food thread?

Posted by: Just got here at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (2Ez/1)

171 Meatloaf sucked.

-
Now do fruitcake.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (1VQ1H)

172
Al Gore says none of the climate predictions were wrong, so let’s revisit the one where Florida disappears.


Ahem.

The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees.

Al Gore
"The Tonight Show" with Conan O'Brien, November 11, 2009


Having scored a Bill Nye bowtie and a Neil Degaseous Tyson science museum store inventory clerk's posting does not make him a "science" expert.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (xG4kz)

173 space itself is "fake and gay"

During the Obama administration NASA declared it to be gay and Muslim, so there's that. Also something about global warming.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (2ocoG)

174 Intel Agencies and Foreign Governments are balls deep View and Sub botting.

Also, I've seen a number of videos recently about how platforms like TikTok aren't paying people nearly what they used to. I wonder if this is related to the divestiture of the platform by China and, if so, if they were paying out large sums in order to promote the kind of trash that TT carries specifically to damage the US.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

175 I'm sure Carlson, Owens and Kelly all enjoy the attention they're getting these days. Controversy sells. I think that's part of the kink with them. They're all getting a lot more attention with their schtick than your run-of-the-mill conning the rubes, owning the libs, whatever.

Given what's going down over in the Middle East I'd think their paymasters might need a bit of a reminder about how things can go down when all the dust over there settles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (AkEZC)

176 168

What I am saying is that I have spoken up for Tucker for speaking out on free speech in the face of literal star chambers even when everything looked fucking grim. Elon and to a lesser extent him did a lot to open things back up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

And then - he shit the bed.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (pDt9x)

177 T. Carlson and C. Owens and the whole lot of the whizzbangers, conspiracy junkies, loudmouths, and nitwits - can't wait for the garden, food, and hobby threads this weekend.

Concur with Ace taking time off and open threads.

Posted by: mrp at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (rj6Yv)

178 Part of this is we have the ... loyalty of the foxhole. We conflate that everyone who is against the dems must be in the same group.

We saw that in the miffs and lover's quarrels between Trump and Elon.

We have also seen that while Tucker may have been for free speech, other values he does not hold to so strongly. So he is using his free speech to advocate for the guys in Qatar and wherever. I think he has taken the old adage about being so open minded his brain falls out to that extent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

179 Tucker?
Is that one of the dudes on RuPaul Drag Race?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (UjdFS)

180 That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 12:36 PM (cpys
==
No, he very quickly got on the UFO train. And I started thinking at that time, what the hell is he talking about. So that made me wary and I paid less and less attention to him. Then he lost his mind over the Oct 7 crap, and began the Islamic apology tour, and I figured oh boy, he's just lost it. And he has dug in deeper and deeper. It's now his career. He is totally invested in our losing in Iran.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (GZYu7)

181 Candace is the one that scares me the most. She will say anything - ANYTHING - she wants, seemingly without fear of reprisal. I really don't understand how she gets away with it. Never thought I'd say this, but at this point I'm rooting for the Macrons.

I'm sad for Candace's kids. They are so little, and their mother seems to be drifting further and further from reality.

Posted by: bluebell at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (afFes)

182 I expect that Murray is referring at one point to that Darryl Cooper guy. He's the "Hitler was the good guy, and Churchill was the actual warlord" doofus, and Tucker had him on.

I had written him off long before that. He's a weird little geek who believes he's at least ten times smarter than he is, and his stuff is *insufferable.*

Before he came out as a flat-out historical revisionist and scholarly punchline, I tried to listen to his Jonestown study, because it's a topic I'm interested in learning more about. Tried. And failed. I made it a few hours in, and gave up. I'd learned nothing new - except about Cooper, because he spent ten minutes talking about himself for every minute he spent on Jim Jones.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (BI5O2)

183 That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.


It's amazing how some have such revisionist history about commentors here and their beliefs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (7Q7Ca)

184 Married Catholic woman with 3 kids is a 'nasty whore', but retweeting the sodomite.

catholic, right. In a fake and gay marriage to a gay man.

>>>Conservative, indeed.


I'm whatever you're NOT, Nazi.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:43 PM (1wjle)
________

Who's the "sodomite" in that comment? Serious question.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

185 One of the many things I like about Trump is that, unlike Bush and other cuck Republicans, he doesn't sit quietly and politely take shit from anyone, including people on his own "side," out of fear of offense or departure from decorum.

Posted by: Candice Owens at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (bNf8H)

186 Who is Douglas Murray?




He’s the owner of Mitch and Murray, and he sent Alec Baldwin on a mission of mercy.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (qOHHe)

187 Meatloaf and potato salad.

So it's a food thread?"

Meatloaf backup singers = boob thread.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (XuXeR)

188 Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.

I hope this is not true.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (abIsI)

189 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

Damn, ace- and I have not even called you gay today yet.

Let me take care of that: Did garrett hog all the covers last night and that's why you're cranky?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM (bss/y)

190 >>> I thought he was wacko for his UFO alien beliefs....

Yes and it didn't just stop with one or two florid beliefs. Within a year, Tucker promoted:

* UFOs
* The CIA killed Kennedy
* Churchill was really the bad guy in WWII and controlled by Jewish Capitalist interests (which is identical to Hitler's propaganda DURING WWII)
* Chemtrails are real
* FDR allowed Pearl Harbor to happen so that he would have an excuse to do the Jews' bidding
* You should shine red light on your asshole for some reason

I mean just on and on and on with one psycho hippie "America the Evil" conspiracy theory after another -- and his Yahoo Amen Corner all swearing that this rank hippie/communist conspiracy theorizing is "Totally Conservative."

Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM (1wjle)

191 And then - he shit the bed."

So I heard...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM (XuXeR)

192 ‘ fuck you both to hell. How about that?’

My, aren’t you an angry boy? You really proved me wrong. Now, I guess I don’t care if we lose the midterms because of a war that only benefits some and could have waited.
You’re foolish if you think screaming down your opponents does anything more than discredit you and it easier for the democrats.
At least you didn’t post another Goddamn Disney article.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM (jbnUc)

193 The problem with traitors inside the gate is that they intentionally open the gates to the enemy

exactly

oh and btw I'm seeing a lot of this here, which is upsetting.

I guess it's midterm season
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 12:28 PM (j+aD2)
\

But what is the solution?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (zafwz)

194 188 Meatloaf and potato salad.

So it's a food thread?"

I prefer mashed potatoes with meatloaf

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (FtULh)

195 Sure, it's true. Some actually listened, believed and liked what Tucker had to say when he left Fox and started his own podcast. He was seemingly solid conservative back then.

But to continue to shove his betrayal in everyone's face as if you were some Nostradamus and "I TOLD YOU SO" makes you kind of an asshole, I don't mind saying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (7Q7Ca)

196 He’s the owner of Mitch and Murray, and he sent Alec Baldwin on a mission of mercy."

Put that coffee down.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (XuXeR)

197 >>Who's the "sodomite" in that comment? Serious question.


Look for the Messenger Bag.

That's always your first clue.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (TLp3A)

198 >>>a Senate inquiry that actually concluded the exact opposite

This is not as convincing a point as what it may have once been.

J6 committee had some official conclusions, too.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (dK+Kv)

199 177 168

What I am saying is that I have spoken up for Tucker for speaking out on free speech in the face of literal star chambers even when everything looked fucking grim. Elon and to a lesser extent him did a lot to open things back up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

And then - he shit the bed.
--------------------------------------
I suspect that it is actually very common for people to be really right on one issue while useless at best elsewhere. Some of the best articles written on the braindead Ukraine policy under Biden were at Max Blumenthal's Grayzone (the outlet the chick works at who married Joe Kent). Then Blumenthal went to Iran and filmed literal propaganda in their missile museum and I stopped going to that site. I knew they were anti-Israeli, but the propaganda footage was a tell in the same way Tucker's UFO and "history of WW2" interviews were.

Posted by: the lower depths at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (PrKv7)

200 You beat me to this comment Garrett. Truly stunning


120 >>Social Blade indicates Carlson's shows are increasing dramatically in subs and views. We are a retarded nation. Intel Agencies and Foreign Governments are balls deep View and Sub botting. Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:37 PM (TLp3A)

Posted by: Sherpa_K2 at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (dOyjb)

201 Yeah, the subversive "Libretarian" Bernie lovers thought that Trump is going to be the 2016 Trump 1.0, subject to internal divisions , infighting , fake conservatives and their opinions driving decision. They expected to splinter the movement. Instead they got Trump 2.0 with 0 fucks to give.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (GD0B3)

202 But what is the solution?"

Alcohol?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (XuXeR)

203 What I am saying is that I have spoken up for Tucker for speaking out on free speech in the face of literal star chambers even when everything looked fucking grim. Elon and to a lesser extent him did a lot to open things back up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

And then - he shit the bed.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:46 PM (pDt9x)

Yes. In glorious pyrotechnic fashion.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

204 199 >>Who's the "sodomite" in that comment? Serious question.


Look for the Messenger Bag.

That's always your first clue.
Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (TLp3A)

I woulda guessed Vespa

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (pDt9x)

205 There’s a nasty attitude around here today.

Think I’ll go for a walk and see if the orcas are hunting seals. It would be soothing in comparison.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (A5RD0)

206 And then - he shit the bed."

So I heard...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM (XuXeR)



It happens.

Posted by: Amber Heard at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (7Q7Ca)

207 Look for the Messenger Bag."

"FagBag"

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (XuXeR)

208 >>You really proved me wrong. Now, I guess I don’t care if we lose the midterms because of a war that only benefits some and could have waited.


Get a load of this retard.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (TLp3A)

209 I like meatloaf... two out of three ain't bad... I like the sandwich also, with plenty of ketchup

That Meatloaf guy ended up with a role in Fight Club

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (xT8gx)

210
Think I’ll go for a walk and see if the orcas are hunting seals. It would be soothing in comparison.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (A5RD0)



Better poop first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (7Q7Ca)

211 This is amazing ace, this is a validation FROM THE HIGHEST SOURCE that you were right.

The only higher source for this could be from Marco Rubio.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (rbvCR)

212 The problem with traitors inside the gate is that they intentionally open the gates to the enemy. Same way that the Dugin-Bannon-Flynn-Fuentes-Owens-Tucker demoralization campaign for midterms is in full swing and aimed directly at those who 'think' they are rugged individualists that think for themselves.

Same with the Just Asking Questions to come up with absurd theories like faked moon landings, Charlie Kirk's political assassination done by whoever rather the leftist furry trannies, aliens, or whatever other conspiracy theory blaming Jews for every evil in the world is bullshit.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 12:27 PM (E4rtv)

Well said, as always.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (dK+Kv)

213 He’s the owner of Mitch and Murray, and he sent Alec Baldwin on a mission of mercy.

So did Kim Jong Il, and Baldwin was found to be worthress.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (2ocoG)

214 "These grifters did not support Trump's vision of what the re-made party should look like."

The party operates as it always has, Democrat lite.
Trump really needed to hit on his appointments to the DOJ, FBI, CIA. Bondi and Patel suck.

Posted by: resist_we_much at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (cpys8)

215 Bondi has been fired!

Posted by: LittleMs.Inopulent at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (1/H5+)

Now who will do all the not arresting people?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (dK+Kv)

216 “It’s a measure of how bovine our ruling class has become that educated people fall for nonsense like this especially hard.”—Tucker Carlson, Ship of Fools

It’s a good book. He should probably re-read it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (EXyHK)

217 Better poop first."

Which deck?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (XuXeR)

218 So now they are Big Mad that Trump is not what they want. Except they dress it up as "Trump is not DoiNg WhAt he saiD he waZ goNNA do!" Were not listening bitches? Now fuck off, go vote for Tulsi Gabbard when she runs in 2028, with the rest of Bernie bros.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 12:52 PM (GD0B3)

219 That Meatloaf guy ended up with a role in Fight Club

Meatloaf was a theater kid back when that didn't mean you were mandatorily gay.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (2ocoG)

220 214 Bondi has been fired!
Posted by: LittleMs.Inopulent at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (1/H5+)


We will see if that was a good move... I have my reservations about that

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (FtULh)

221 That's funny, because up until he started criticizing Israel nobody here seemed to have a problem with him.
_____

Not true. In fact, Tucker's obsession with Israel was one of the last wacky, clickbaity views he pushed. I had already had enough of him after the alien conspiracies, the conspiracies over who killed Kennedy, revisionist WWII idiocy, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

222 Think I’ll go for a walk and see if the orcas are hunting seals. It would be soothing in comparison.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (A5RD0)


Better poop first.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (7Q7Ca)

Nice call back.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

223 >>>* You should shine red light on your asshole for some reason

Wait, what? Was that wrong?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)

224 Married Catholic woman with 3 kids is a 'nasty whore', but retweeting the sodomite.

Conservative, indeed.
====

This is literally the most precious comment I have read at AoS in the last 14 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (RIvkX)

225 Think I’ll go for a walk and see if the orcas are hunting seals. It would be soothing in comparison.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 02, 2026 12:50 PM (A5RD0)

Sometimes it is best to just get away.
Orcas be mean!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (P4Pk9)

226 Maybe post Troll alert and a nic to assist the mods? I imagine with the plasticity of identity labels here it can be difficult.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (u82oZ)

227
Nice call back.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)



It's silly an sad sometimes what my brain decides to remember from one day to the next.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (7Q7Ca)

228 Tucker Carlson believes Pearl Harbor was a false flag orchestrated by Roosevelt to drag America into WWII.
_________
FDR actually did have a scheme to drag us into the war (against Japan). This is not new or secret info, it was published in the Naval Institute Proceedings back in the 1960s. A schooner was taken into service (but not actually commissioned) under the name Lanikai, and sent to the East. While she was on her cruise, Japan bombed Pearl. And she made it back.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (AlhUl)

229 @214. Well, that sucks. April is the cruelest month.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (qwx/I)

230 The idiocy to claim there was a senate report in 1946 claiming foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor.

The report explicitly rejected conspiracy theories claiming that President Franklin D. Roosevelt or his top advisors had "tricked, provoked, incited, cajoled, or coerced" Japan into attacking the U.S. to draw America into the war.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (y171U)

231 you must stand behind a man in order to stab him in the back (sir humphrey applebee)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (CWTWj)

232 We have also seen that while Tucker may have been for free speech

Tucker values free speech because speech is how he gets paid. He wasn't gonna get a fat contract by a leftwing media source so he needed free speech so he could go it alone. But going it alone meant that he was actually free. Free to say the things that he wants to say. And, apparently, what he wants to say is Israel bad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (ExV1e)

233 Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.

--

Wha???? Bondi is fired?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (qBdHI)

234 And then - he shit the bed."

So I heard...
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:48 PM


ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (kgE5c)

235 Not true. In fact, Tucker's obsession with Israel was one of the last wacky, clickbaity views he pushed. I had already had enough of him after the alien conspiracies, the conspiracies over who killed Kennedy, revisionist WWII idiocy, etc.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

I didn't care for him, listen to him, or pay attention to him then either.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (dK+Kv)

236 {{{nurse ratched}}}

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (u82oZ)

237 * You should shine red light on your asshole for some reason

Wait, what? Was that wrong?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (dK+Kv)



We need a ruling from Hope Solo's Globetrotting Squeakhole........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (7Q7Ca)

238 Look for the Messenger Bag.

That's always your first clue.
Posted by: garrett

I woulda guessed Vespa
Posted by: tubal
........

Tank top and aviator shades.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (UjdFS)

239 Gateway Pundit sez Fox News sez Bondi out.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

240 Its all so strange. More than a grift, I think. I wonder if the CIA has restarted its MKUltra Op.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (wBaIH)

241 Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell

Swalwell was giving her just the tip? What power does that ugly-ass dude have over women?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (2ocoG)

242 You will never convince me that FDR didn't have some expectation of an attack at Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (qwx/I)

243 Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.


If that's true, he's right to can the bish.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (7Q7Ca)

244 r/AskALiberal What are your thoughts on Tucker Carlson? And have your views on him evolved over the past couple years?

He has always been a piece of shit, and no my views of him have not evolved, why would they? He's still a smarmy guy on the take.

He’s a lying grifter. He sees trump is falling out of favor and wants to guide the next right wing grift. Unfortunately for him the right is so insanely good at grifting he has to compete with a ton of different factions.

Born with a silver spoon and it shows. (Heir to the Swanson frozen dinner fortune.) He craves attention and approval. He has no loyalty to the truth. Jon Stewart had him figured out 20+ years ago.

He was always awful, but he went from smarmy and annoying to utterly vile after 2016. He’s a white nationalist/ borderline Nazi.

He’s literally Trump if Trump wasn’t a moron with a narcissistic personality disorder. Very dangerous figure. Just because he is correct about the Iran War, it does not absolve him.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (ycI94)

245 you must stand behind a man in order to stab him in the back (sir humphrey applebee)

This series was one giant advertisement for term limits for government employees. It should be required viewing for any “outsider” who manages to get elected.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (EXyHK)

246 Bondi’s head now hangs on the wall, figuratively speaking of course. We’ll see what happens now, but expect Leftist crowing and months of kabuki in DC before the next AG gets in office.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (pDt9x)

247 see if the orcas are hunting seals."

Yum!

*ever have seal meat? It's ok...*

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (XuXeR)

248 But I thought Bondi had things in the works as far as punishing the left.(facepalm) I hope this isn't desperation. Mid terms approaching no scalps, nobody swinging. Good grief.

Posted by: JROD at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (IlL6s)

249 Get on board the Love Train!

Rep. Melanie Stansbury
@Rep_Stansbury
This is a Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appreciation post. That is all!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (1VQ1H)

250 247 Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.


If true she should be fired....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (FtULh)

251 Candace Owens, the evil villain in today's story, is a married, Catholic, mother of 4. She's the 'nasty whore'.


Yeah, she's no Catholic, sport.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (7Q7Ca)

252 Trump's reasoning for the sudden dismissal comes in part because the President believes Bondi tipped off Eric Swalwell about the FBI’s efforts to release investigative documents related to his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy.

I hope this is not true.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:47 PM (abIsI)


Well, I can't find anyone saying she's been fired so I'm betting that it isn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

253 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)


The Right Sector is a Ukrainian far right political party (you know, black and red flag and everything Bandera adjascent) and they have a paramilitary wing, which includes a Jewish unit.
I am not sure how that works, but I bet Ben Shapiro can't explain it either

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)

254
I saw Meatloaf open for- No joke. I did see Meatloaf open for...someone...

Well, okay. One joke:

I saw Meatloaf open for Joy of Cooking in '77 at AWHQ.

Anyway, the only thing I remember is that...man, could that guy sweat a lot. The whole stage was covered with Meatloaf's perspiration. They mopped up between acts.

And he had this extra long pink silk(?) muffler that he kept flipping around (make your own call about that).

Not particularly impressed with the music.

That's all.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (iJfKG)

255 Bondi has been fired!

Posted by: LittleMs.Inopulent

Now who will do all the not arresting people?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
........

The next guy.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (UjdFS)

256 Can you share that recipe?? German potato salad is sooooooo good!

The Better Homes and Gardens cookbook has a great recipe.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (qFwJc)

257 Tank top and aviator shades."

Freddie Mercury, that you?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (XuXeR)

258 @Rep_Stansbury
This is a Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson appreciation post. That is all!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (1VQ1H)



Someone please respond:

"No one can say the Federal Government doesn't hire the handicapped."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (7Q7Ca)

259 Who is the source for Bondi’s betrayal revelation?

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (pDt9x)

260 Man, Rubio's gonna have more on his plate.

That's our Dondi!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (qwx/I)

261 250 Bondi’s head now hangs on the wall, figuratively speaking of course. We’ll see what happens now, but expect Leftist crowing and months of kabuki in DC before the next AG gets in office.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:56 PM (pDt9x)

For sure....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (FtULh)

262 Once an astute Jewish businessman eschewed the work of a mediocre artist.

Prelude to Act III: The Tucker Carlson Story

Posted by: Meh at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (N462N)

263 We'll miss you Pam.

Posted by: Fox News green room staff at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (2Ez/1)

264 It's amazing how some have such revisionist history about commentors here and their beliefs.

*********************************

I liked Tucker all the way up to 2024 mid 2025 I think

He never said anything I felt was off, his comments regarding the deep state, the corruption of the FBI, a globalist elite full of pedophiles in Europe etc all seemed on point, I also appreciated his platforming doctors who got screwed over by the vaccine mandate and engineers who discussed chemtrails, etc

I was out when he started taint licking Islam

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 12:58 PM (REq0p)

265 mother of 4."

You said "3" before...

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:58 PM (XuXeR)

266 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

You know who else was not big on Hitler?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (dK+Kv)

267 But to continue to shove his betrayal in everyone's face as if you were some Nostradamus and "I TOLD YOU SO" makes you kind of an asshole, I don't mind saying.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:49 PM (7Q7Ca)

No it doesn't. I've been saying he's a cheesy charlatan for like 15 years.

It doesn't take a Nostradamus - just someone who paid any attention to Carlson in the many, many years before he did his next heel-turn to the MAGA grift, which he's since moved on from.

If you kept telling people someone's a piece of shit who can't be trusted further than he's been kicked, and then they do it anyway, and they get bitten, you SHOULD point out how credulous they'd been.

They won't like hearing it, but them's the breaks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (BI5O2)

268 The idiocy to claim there was a senate report in 1946 claiming foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor.

The report explicitly rejected conspiracy theories claiming that President Franklin D. Roosevelt or his top advisors had "tricked, provoked, incited, cajoled, or coerced" Japan into attacking the U.S. to draw America into the war.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (y171U)


No one was going to admit in 1946 that the greatest victory for America was due to being suckered, even if they thought that.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (rbvCR)

269 We'll miss you Pam.
Posted by: Fox News green room staff at April 02, 2026 12:57 PM (2Ez/1)



She'll have plenty of guest spots on Morning Joe going forward, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (7Q7Ca)

270 A lot of "sources say" in that Bondi "news", so a grain of salt should be taken. Personally, I think he should replace her though.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (n5tGW)

271 >>Its all so strange. More than a grift, I think. I wonder if the CIA has restarted its MKUltra Op.


Think Mockingbird rather than MKUtlra.

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (TLp3A)

272 268 mother of 4."

You said "3" before...
Posted by: man

Shit, man! You got me. I ain't even married. Now put your fuckin' hands in the air!

Posted by: Benny Bondi at April 02, 2026 01:00 PM (ycI94)

273 btw the sodomite in question is Douglas Murray

which I was sad to learn

he's pretty all right

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:00 PM (j+aD2)

274 You know who else was not big on Hitler?"

Ah, Ernst Rohm after July oneth, '34?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (XuXeR)

275 My favorite Tucker Carlson moment came on CNN in 2000, when he was live from Ho Chi Minh City during the 25th Anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
The other CNN talking heads are discussing how the Vietnamese were warm and welcoming. "Tucker, how has your experience been?" Tucker: "The Viet language is the most unpleasant language on the planet. It literally makes my ears hurt to hear it spoken. I'd rather listen to an air horn all day."

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (0bjKf)

276 Bondi has been fired!
Posted by: LittleMs.Inopulent at April 02, 2026 12:51 PM (1/H5+)


We will see if that was a good move... I have my reservations about that
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:53 PM (FtULh)


There's a reason that no link was provided for that news.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (ExV1e)

277 You said "3" before...

Maybe she really is Catholic.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (EXyHK)

278 Hey, Pam. Call us.

Posted by: The View green room staff at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (2Ez/1)

279 Today's Propaganda Press outlets rage against Trump's speech, promote U.S. citizenship for all the world, condemn the report Zeldin will soon replace Bondi, and are totally silent on SCOTUS' KBJ horseshit opinions.

Always interesting to see who they support, and today's nominees include some Nevada Congresswomen who kept saying 'fuck" when talking about Trump, and the Maine commiecrat running for the Senate.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (x0Rg/)

280 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

You know who else was not big on Hitler?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM


Well...he did Hitler.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (kgE5c)

281
If you kept telling people someone's a piece of shit who can't be trusted further than he's been kicked, and then they do it anyway, and they get bitten, you SHOULD point out how credulous they'd been.

They won't like hearing it, but them's the breaks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM (BI5O2)



So, we're never to believe anyone can ever change their tune, even if they seem genuine for a time.

Got it.

Republican party can never grow from TRUE CONSERVATIVES you guys. Ever. Minds will not be changed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM (7Q7Ca)

282 >>The Right Sector is a Ukrainian far right political party (you know, black and red flag and everything Bandera adjascent) and they have a paramilitary wing, which includes a Jewish unit.


You know who else had a Jewish Unit?

Posted by: garrett at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (TLp3A)

283 CNN, FoxNews and MS Now

All three...Pam Bondi fired.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

284 Three, four... whatever it takes.

Posted by: Her womb at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (2Ez/1)

285 In his personal life, Douglas Murray is gay

In her personal life, Candace Owens is married and has children

Those facts have nothing to do with their public statements and positions. When it comes to those public statements and positions, Murray is right and Owens is despicable

Why is this hard??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (xT8gx)

286
Why is this hard??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (xT8gx)



Forget it, he's trolling.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 01:03 PM (7Q7Ca)

287 I know you guys are big on Hitler but normal, educated, moral people are not.
Posted by: ace at April 02, 2026 12:40 PM (1wjle)

You know who else was not big on Hitler?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 12:59 PM

Well...he did kill Hitler.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 01:01 PM


FIFMyself.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 01:04 PM (Wnv9h)

288 Tucker: "The Viet language is the most unpleasant language on the planet. It literally makes my ears hurt to hear it spoken. I'd rather listen to an air horn all day."

He's right you know. Chinese is another hideous language to listen to.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 02, 2026 01:04 PM (mkw2N)

289 Gateway Pundit sez Fox News sez Bondi out.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)


Fox says "source say".

https://tinyurl.com/mumam35t

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

290 Who’s a WWII revisionist? Sir Winston Churchill was an evil warmonger who refused great peace deals with Hitler that would have allowed us to preserve our empire. Asshole.

Posted by: Prof. Ed Dutton at April 02, 2026 01:04 PM (E6xSb)

291 Apparently there is a market for "political fabulism", or whatever the Tucker/Owens market is called. The problem is so many of the Wild Ideas of the past were not so crazy (Covid as obedience training/murder of The West, stolen elections, etc.).

So discernment is required. Glen Beck puts out some good stuff at times, then sometimes seems off the wall. And the WEF type globalists have some hidden "anti-Western agenda" that muddies the waters, not to mention Big Fraud Media.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 02, 2026 01:04 PM (vbXSk)

292 I have no comment on firing Bondi. obviously not against and yet I don't want to pile on her at this time.

she tried. I do think she was trying.

needed to work harder and faster than she did/could do.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

293 I can’t fathom why Pam Blondi would have been fired, she was so effective in her job.

Look at all of the things she did…..

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (rqbXZ)

294 245 You will never convince me that FDR didn't have some expectation of an attack at Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

What, you mean the big "Bomb Me!" sign?

The Japs screwed all that up themselves, no help needed.

Posted by: Auspex at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (Y8DZL)

295 292 I have no comment on firing Bondi. obviously not against and yet I don't want to pile on her at this time.

she tried. I do think she was trying.

needed to work harder and faster than she did/could do.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

Agreed.. I tried to stay neutral on her...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (FtULh)

296 283 CNN, FoxNews and MS Now

All three...Pam Bondi fired.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

Damn. Time for some here to look for new demons and divine objects of hatred.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (E6xSb)

297 Isaac Newton kept piss jugs in his living room, that doesn't mean gravity doesn't work.

There is a world that exists and will continue to exist regardless of who says what about it.

Reality is not a team sport.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (eqMv7)

298 Why is this hard??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (xT8gx)

Everyone is looking for an icon/expert to elevate as shorthand for reasoned argument and reflection. It is human nature. I just wish we would learn from our mistakes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)

299 289 I stand corrected.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (N8ZBc)

300 What people seem to forget is,
Tucker Carlson is a "Bowtie Guy".

Posted by: OldManMike at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (b0ILp)

301 You will never convince me that FDR didn't have some expectation of an attack at Pearl Harbor.
=====

Stunning and brave.

Ok?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

302 Look at all of the things she did…..
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (rqbXZ)

Who will the Two Minutes Hate feature now?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (E6xSb)

303 Where’s TJM??

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (pDt9x)

304 interestingly, I read the testimony yesterday but did not watch/listen.

PDJT did.

maybe he didn't like what he heard/saw. commenters here were saying the guy was milquetoast/wally cox etc

maybe PDJT agreed.

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)

305 Not like Trump can make a recess appointment for Bondi, what with the 2-minute sessions and all.

Then again, a 2-minute session ... what endurance!

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (qwx/I)

306 *AOC bug eyes*

- ellipsis

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (dK+Kv)

307 303 Where’s TJM??


I was wondering the same thing

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)

308 Literally, all the Bondi fired stuff is based on "two sources familiar".

There's no official word on anything related to the matter. Y'all should know better by now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (ExV1e)

309 "What people seem to forget is, Tucker Carlson is a "Bowtie Guy"."

Is there anything phonier than his makeover as "Tuca, Rugged Outdoorsman?"

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (N8ZBc)

310 Nobody knows that better than Donald Trump, who has been stabbed in the back more times than Julius Caesar -- yet has still survived.

Trump's reason for political survival is actually pretty simple - he just keeps advancing conservative goals.

Oh some rightwing pundit is attacking Trump for...doing the sorts of things he promised to do? DO NOT CARE

Oh you say Trump is doing it in a mean way or it offends your muh sacred principles? DO NOT CARE

and so on...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (sKqQm)

311 Candace Owen’s is a psychopath.

Seriously deranged.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (4KUe5)

312 306 was at this:

I have no comment on firing Bondi. obviously not against and yet I don't want to pile on her at this time.

she tried. I do think she was trying.

needed to work harder and faster than she did/could do.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (dK+Kv)

313 I can see nothing saying "Pam Bondi was fired." It's all the same anonymous sources claiming Trump discussed firing her. I still think this is an op. If Trump is gonna fire someone, he fires them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

314 America, F*ck Yeah!

Costco actually sells this $140, TEN-POUND chocolate Easter bunny

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (1VQ1H)

315 296 283 CNN, FoxNews and MS Now

All three...Pam Bondi fired.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)

Damn. Time for some here to look for new demons and divine objects of hatred.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (E6xSb)

Article says it's from a single source...who goes unnamed...maybe wait for confirm with an on-the-record source...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (tOcjL)

316 Wait till those who wanted Bondi gone, find out who is replacing her...their minds will exploded.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (GD0B3)

317 I live there and love it there!

Posted by: Gov Greg Abbott at April 02, 2026 01:08 PM (E6xSb)

318 *will explode

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (GD0B3)

319 Posted by: Live and Learn at April 02, 2026 12:41 PM (dTXJd)

It's amusing that you make not even a pretense to defend Candace's views, or opine as to why Murray is wrong, and merely state that each viewpoint they espouse should be supported or ignored based on a group you want to categorize each as fitting into.

How very Marxist of you, you fucking rock-ribbed "conservative".

Posted by: far cry at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (Q6P2R)

320 266 We'll miss you Pam.
Posted by: Fox News green room staff


So will we.

Posted by: Nails By Chow at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (abIsI)

321 CNN, FoxNews and MS Now

All three...Pam Bondi fired.

****************

Bondi's white knight here hardest hit.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (Y1sOo)

322 293 I can’t fathom why Pam Blondi would have been fired, she was so effective in her job.

Look at all of the things she did…..
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It's funny, the Left bitched nonstop about Garland, Trump 45 AGs were pathetic...the last active one that successfully pushed the President's priorities was Holder (spit). Is there some sort of uniparty institutionalist cabal working the system here?

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (ycI94)

323

304 interestingly, I read the testimony yesterday but did not watch/listen.

PDJT did.

maybe he didn't like what he heard/saw. commenters here were saying the guy was milquetoast/wally cox etc

maybe PDJT agreed.
Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:07 PM (j+aD2)



His voice was terrible but his arguments were good... Looked to me like the justices had already made up their minds on this

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (FtULh)

324 There is a world that exists and will continue to exist regardless of who says what about it.

Reality is not a team sport.


That has become a fundamental difference between the right and left.

Does reality exist even if every human being decides that it does not?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

325 I mean it is all rumors and no confirmation at this point. He should have fired Gabbard first.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (GD0B3)

326 CNN, FoxNews and MS Now

All three...Pam Bondi fired.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:02 PM (Sco7b)


Sources say, sources say, sources say... pity that Trump is so shy and retiring and never tells people how he feels about things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

327 Interestingly, the same source said Trump wants to appoint Bondi as a judge...which again, makes no sense if he's firing her...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (tOcjL)

328 Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:05 PM (j+aD2)

Bondi was friends with Ben Crump and helped sink the country into racial despair for Little Trayvon. Bad on guns too. Not sure what part she played in the Epstein Op that was intended to overshadow Trump's Third Term and take him down for good. A real useless waste of space and that's the charitable read. If she's gone good riddance but I'm not sure she's gone.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (kNAyK)

329 After that Joe Kent shitshow.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (GD0B3)

330 rock-ribbed "conservative"."

Ribbed for who's pleasure?

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (XuXeR)

331 Damn. Time for some here to look for new demons and divine objects of hatred.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (E6xSb

So jazz music?



From GatewayPundit

Pam Bondi is out as Attorney General, according to Fox News.

Fox News reported that Pam Bondi met with President Trump on Wednesday night before his Iran speech.

Bondi has reportedly already flown back to her home in Florida.

The president has reportedly discussed replacing Bondi with EPA Chief Lee Zeldin.

On Wednesday night CNN and The New York Times reported that President Trump was mulling firing Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein file release.

The New York Times reported that President Trump has been frustrated with Pam Bondi’s leadership at the DOJ.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

332 And her performance at the hearings. That was another Gabbard shitshow.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (GD0B3)

333 303 Where’s TJM??

Shhhhhh, my scrolling finger is enjoying the time off.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (Y1sOo)

334 312 306 was at this:


lol I know I admit I was very against her!

I just feel bad now I guess

am hoping there was a definitive reason like her leaking info to Swalwell tbh. not just sharks moving on her bc they smelled blood after Noem was fired

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (j+aD2)

335 Ugh, Trump better not hire Trey Gowdy.
Another phony - all show for the cameras, no significant accomplishments in Congress.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (4KUe5)

336 Hi- please excuse being off topic, but I think someone here is an insurance broker. I need quotes on a BOP as I think I am way over paying, but maybe I am not. I would rather give my money to one of you morons, as little as that may be, than a stranger. 😊

Posted by: Piper at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (Wmg4n)

337 Bondi was friends with Ben Crump and helped sink the country into racial despair for Little Trayvon. Bad on guns too. Not sure what part she played in the Epstein Op that was intended to overshadow Trump's Third Term and take him down for good. A real useless waste of space and that's the charitable read. If she's gone good riddance but I'm not sure she's gone.


thank you for the reminder!

she's gone

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (j+aD2)

338 316 Wait till those who wanted Bondi gone, find out who is replacing her...their minds will exploded.
Posted by: runner

Yes, I am available, highly ethical and highly qualified!

Posted by: Jeff Sessions at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (ycI94)

339 Zeldin would be an interesting choice.

He probably one the last NYS gov election if only citizens were allowed to vote.

Is that going to give him the sort of fire needed to stop this fraud?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

340 Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (kNAyK)

I was waiting for you to apparate out of the ether.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

341 America, F*ck Yeah!

Costco actually sells this $140, TEN-POUND chocolate Easter bunny
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
.......

Does it come shrink wrapped to eleven others?

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (UjdFS)

342 The president has reportedly discussed replacing Bondi with EPA Chief Lee Zeldin.

************************

EN FUEGO

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 02, 2026 01:12 PM (REq0p)

343 Does reality exist even if every human being decides that it does not?"


WOAH DUDE!!!!

*grabs bong and Hermann Hesse/Carlos Castaneda books.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:12 PM (XuXeR)

344 OK, she was fired.

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:12 PM (GD0B3)

345 Nood Blondi

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:13 PM (dK+Kv)

346 Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:09 PM (kNAyK)

I was waiting for you to apparate out of the ether.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 02, 2026 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)

Rumors of my mattering have been greatly exaggerated.

Posted by: ... at April 02, 2026 01:13 PM (kNAyK)

347 Nood Bondi

Posted by: Clay at April 02, 2026 01:13 PM (sWdhC)

348 Bondi was friends with Ben Crump and helped sink the country into racial despair for Little Trayvon. Bad on guns too. Not sure what part she played in the Epstein Op that was intended to overshadow Trump's Third Term and take him down for good. A real useless waste of space and that's the charitable read. If she's gone good riddance but I'm not sure she's gone.
Posted by: ...

^^
She's a nogoodnik from long ago. Poor choice.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 01:13 PM (abIsI)

349 Wait till those who wanted Bondi gone, find out who is replacing her...their minds will exploded.
Posted by: runner

Yes, I am available, highly ethical and highly qualified!
Posted by: Jeff Sessions

I'm thinking more Vlad the Impaler.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (1VQ1H)

350 Little Trayvon"

Now 14 years sober!

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (XuXeR)

351 So, we're never to believe anyone can ever change their tune, even if they seem genuine for a time.

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If - at any point in his entire career - Carlson seemed "genuine" to anyone, it's because they desperately wanted to believe whatever happened to be spilling from his lips at that particular minute (it always changed a minute later).

This is the real problem - the Left has monolithic control of political and media institutions, and the Right is a completely unserved market. So they will believe literally *anyone* who says a few things they like at some point - even if he's a charlatan who's as transparent as a glass of pilsner.

They're just a pile of red meat for every hungry grifter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

352 I think seeing the performance over the Birthright case really did her in, huh. That was supposed to be a win. I like her loyalty to Trump. Hope whoever is next is just as loyal. I think he will be !

Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (GD0B3)

353 Bondi has reportedly already flown back to her home in Florida.
......

I hope the TSA agent got a good feel.

Posted by: wth at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (UjdFS)

354 Wading through social media, stupid liberals who are screeching all Netanyahu videos are A.I. and he was actually killed are gushing over A.I. Iranian videos of some bearded monkey skateboarding as a missle launches and silly Lego cartoons about Native Americans to try and White guilt Americans into quitting as proof Iran is "winning".

Posted by: ObsidianKnife at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (wi5kh)

355 In truth I don’t give a damn about Bondi, but IF she is indeed fired I would have waited until mid November. It just supplies fodder for the Left and also limits any other personnel moves Trump might need to make in the near future. Our side is treading very close to the “ complete disarray” attack that the Dems would love to make. Hell, they might use that anyway.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (pDt9x)

356 And even if Trump refused to bend to their will, why, as long as they were seen as close to Trump, they could emerge as his successors after Trump was term-limited and retired.

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Next you'll be telling me that they're going to assassinate Charlie Kirk.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (nCGhB)

357 https://x.com/i/status/2039751312515149852

Posted by: LittleMs.Inopulent at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (1/H5+)

358 355 In truth I don’t give a damn about Bondi, but IF she is indeed fired I would have waited until mid November. It just supplies fodder for the Left and also limits any other personnel moves Trump might need to make in the near future. Our side is treading very close to the “ complete disarray” attack that the Dems would love to make. Hell, they might use that anyway.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (pDt9x)

Exactly.

I wasn’t crazy about her being AG but nor was I consumed with hatred for her like many here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:21 PM (E6xSb)

359 Trump's a results orientated person. Whether or not AG Bondi was delivering the results he was looking for has probably been answered. I don't think it was "just" her handling of the Epstein files... although that was a poor initial showing for her. Having Comey's perjury charge dismissed/not referred by a grand jury (regardless where it was empaneled) didn't help.

Maybe someone else can point to the results Bondi got that may have mattered.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 01:22 PM (AkEZC)

360 At one and the same time, they say Iran was never seeking nuclear weapons. And that Iran has the right to nuclear weapons.

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It's not happening and it's a good thing it is!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 01:23 PM (nCGhB)

361
Al Gore says none of the climate predictions were wrong, so let’s revisit the one where Florida disappears.



During one of his book tours about 15 years ago, he used to go to book shows and college campuses and do his speech, then he'd run like a scalded cat when it came time for the traditional Q and A session. The "moderator" would practically lick his testicles while explaining to the audience that Gore couldn't stay to answer questions because he had a vitally important meeting that he had to fly out immediately to attend. Same schtick on multiple talks all shown on CSPAN that year.

What a pussy.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 01:25 PM (y9nCu)

362 Who could ever predicted that Ben Shapiro's affirmative action hire would end up causing problems?

Posted by: Ken at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (aVf49)

363 363 Who could ever predicted that Ben Shapiro's affirmative action hire would end up causing problems?
Posted by: Ken at April 02, 2026 01:26 PM (aVf49)

Huh?

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (E6xSb)

364 Posted by: Coach Howard Schnebrllenegr at April 02, 2026 01:20 PM (YZhRl)

Again, argued like a good little Marxist fuckwit.

No reasoning, just looking at what groups you can compartmentalize people into.

Go ahead and defend Candace's views, and argue against Murray's, dipshit, rather than pretend Ovens is unimpeachable because she cosplays as a Catholic to get dickless rubes like you to white-knight for her.

Posted by: far cry at April 02, 2026 01:31 PM (Q6P2R)

365 Damn. Time for some here to look for new demons and divine objects of hatred.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 02, 2026 01:06 PM (E6xSb)

Like a google search, that'll take .ooo24 of a second.
Demons are everywhere.
She'll be replaced as an object of hatred quickly.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 02, 2026 01:35 PM (zafwz)

366 Tucker's WWII rantings are silly. We were essentially in the war in the Atlantic fully by late 1941. We took over defense of Canada so all of their Navy and Troops could be redeployed overseas.

"Getting us into the war" could *also* have been accomplished by smashing the attack with much less loss of life. We had been on alert for 2 weeks but the Japanese fleet was delayed until the first day we stood down, Dec 7.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (8avO+)

367 German Potato Salad, My Way
...
Posted by: Eddie Doucette, Ghost Chef
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You left out the mustard powder.
My grandmother's potato salad had mustard powder in it, and she got the recipe from her Pennsylvania Dutch (Dunkard) grandmother.
Therefore it can't be REAL German Potato Salad without mustard. So there.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 01:36 PM (DAQKj)

368 >>In truth I don’t give a damn about Bondi, but IF she is indeed fired I would have waited until mid November. It just supplies fodder for the Left and also limits any other personnel moves Trump might need to make in the near future. Our side is treading very close to the “ complete disarray” attack that the Dems would love to make. Hell, they might use that anyway.

Republicans might not even control the Senate in mid November. It's going to be hard enough to get someone through the Senate as it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 01:38 PM (viF8m)

369 Holy JuJuBones! Tuca actually said he hated Trump. Wow. I was keeping him on the sideline because he brings on knowledgeable people about things, but he-gone now. What a grifting prick.

MAGA is not leaving Trump, don't worry. And we see the 'establishment' grifters for who they are.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (iXm17)

370 352 I think seeing the performance over the Birthright case really did her in, huh. That was supposed to be a win. I like her loyalty to Trump. Hope whoever is next is just as loyal. I think he will be !
Posted by: runner at April 02, 2026 01:15 PM (GD0B3)

I think you are correct Runner. He canned her right before last night's speech and after he witnessed the pathetic oral arguments.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 02, 2026 01:44 PM (y171U)

371 Candace married a white dude. She has special insights yo.

Posted by: connected and litigious at April 02, 2026 01:45 PM (cS1cw)

372 I think i owe the opposite of an i told you so to everyone who thought Bondi was bad juju.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 01:49 PM (eqMv7)

373 Lol. HordeJuJu.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 01:50 PM (eqMv7)

374 369. Republicans might not even control the Senate in mid November. It's going to be hard enough to get someone through the Senate as it is.

Posted by: JackStraw

👍

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 01:51 PM (NFX2v)

375 372 Candace married a white dude. She has special insights yo.
Posted by: connected and litigiou

Her husband, George Farmer, formerly led Turning Point UK and Parler.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 01:54 PM (NFX2v)

376 In 3 years, we'll be in the 2028 Presidential election cycle. Without Trump on the ballot, and MAGA starting it's twelve year as a political slogan, the political comment environment will likely be unrecognizable from today. I suspect Tucker, Candace, and Megan understand their future paychecks are greatly at risk so they are selling out to America's enemies today to do as much damage as possible to us Conservatives. Either that or they are convinced AI's ability to manipulate average Americas will become so good that we're going to be in a full Communist dictatorship by then.

And absent election fraud twice a bad as 2020, the Senate is not in danger in 2026.

Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at April 02, 2026 02:01 PM (55jmf)

377 Brilliant, Ace.

Candace Owens needs to be in a straight jacket and hauled off to a psych unit. For a change of meds or introduction of meds or electroshock therapy. Something. Her eyes scare me. In real life I'd flee from her at a grocery store.

I did my part yesterday and fought anti-Semitism on another blog. The raking woman has come back after her retreat from me, and now posting nature or dog photos. The other guy has not said much since yesterday when I defended Israel and Bibi.

My husband, when I tell him about this, thinks I am also nuts but basically harmless. I mean, no one else says squat to these Owens and Tucker wannabes comments so I do. Politely and with facts.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (WONhk)

378 2 years

Posted by: Darin Zimmerman at April 02, 2026 02:03 PM (55jmf)

379 Methinks the pool of non-backstabbing, competent, MAGA, Cabinet candidates is too small.

70% of something is better than 90% of nothing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (u82oZ)

380 Meanwhile, history actually shows that FDR wanted to provoke the Japanese into an incident in the South China Sea and all civilian and military assessments were that the Japanese were not merely incapable of getting to Pearl Harbor but of running an air attack.

Carlson has gone the full Revisionist. I expect some Lost Cause and Stab in the Back drivel next.

Posted by: Sam at April 02, 2026 02:27 PM (7jMef)

381 If - at any point in his entire career - Carlson seemed "genuine" to anyone, it's because they desperately wanted to believe whatever happened to be spilling from his lips at that particular minute (it always changed a minute later).

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)
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I take that as a mischaracterization of me. And I do not recall a time I "desperately wanted" what the clown who used to wear the bow tie to be true.

No, in his run, he won me over by proving to be one of the best commentors on national live media. I could really give a shit if you don't hold that opinion.

This is just a simplistic shame on you different from my suss, given we're standing in the aftermath of Carlson's decline.

Your observation does not match mine. He was very good at his job.

I really don't understand why people don't think people can decline or go off the rails. Why do you want to take more burden on just to say "See, I was right!"?

I really don't know what to make of Tucker now. But in the lead up to the 2024 election, Tucker toured stadiums and sold-out shows promoting Trump's presidency. I can't say objectively how much that did for Trump

Posted by: Axeman at April 02, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

382 In April 2024, Tarlson was already denouncing anyone who would defend the use of nuclear weapons to end World War II as "prima facie evil". Nothing that he's done since then should be surprising.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at April 02, 2026 04:56 PM (A+9Ht)

The Morning Rant

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One of the reasons why we conservatives find it difficult to comprehend the magnitude and reach of the organizations funding, organizing, and promoting the comprehensive leftist response to pretty much everything the Trump administration does, is that we are far too invested in our own individualism, and chafe at the thought of being a cog in some great right-wing machine. We simply can't imagine why anyone would be such a mindless drone, sent hither and yon at the behest of a cabal of wealthy progressive manipulators, who are themselves simply tools of our enemies abroad.

But the left has no problem with being part of the collective, because that is exactly who they are! There is no recognition of the uniqueness of the human condition. It sees everyone as part of a greater whole that inevitably moves toward their goal, which is the destruction of the individual, and the rejection of the divine spark that gives meaning to the world, gives meaning to life, and creates the conditions necessary to recognize the intrinsic worth of each of us.

Religion, traditional culture, the nuclear family, free markets, respect for life...all are targets in the great war that the left is waging against Western culture. And while those are all powerful weapons in that battle, the left's ability to organize and to sublimate the God-given attributes of humanity is a tremendous advantage.

No Kings Puppets Push for 'Communist Revolution' in America

If you were in New York City on Saturday during the third edition of the No Kings movement, you would have seen a smorgasbord of far-left groups aiming to sow the seeds of revolution in America.

You would have seen numerous flags adorned with the hammer and sickle. You would have been surrounded by collectivist swag and literature for sale, including copies of The Communist Manifesto. You would have seen banners with socialist slogans celebrating depraved monsters like Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Worst of all, you would have been inundated with chants like, “there is only one solution — communist revolution.”

The No Kings movement is a sham. Far from a grassroots movement, it is a highly coordinated, well-funded network of far-left groups that seek to replace America’s founding principles.


And the left's useful idiots -- the blue-haired cat ladies, the septuagenarian hipsters with gray ponytails reliving their counter-culture youth, the ignorant 20-somethings who believe everything they hear, as long as it is in a reel shorter than 30 seconds -- they obediently rush out onto the street carrying preprinted signs, chant slogans from 3x5 cards, get their protest checks from the organizers, and rush home to tell their friends how powerful they are!

It is a fight that conservatives find difficult to enter, precisely because we are not worker bees being directed by others. But enter it we must! Luckily we have the truth and 2,500 years of evidence on our side.


[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

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1 uno

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 11:00 AM (N1DT3)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:00 AM (7Q7Ca)

3 Punk munky.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:00 AM (7Q7Ca)

4
ESPONJA!!1!!11!!!

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 02, 2026 11:01 AM (tljrc)

5 The left is made up of people who can't think beyond first-order consequences.

Worse, they are generally wrong, even about those.

All that matters to them is that they mean well and those evil conservatives don't.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 11:01 AM (N1DT3)

6 sent hither and yon at the behest of a cabal of wealthy progressive manipulators, who are themselves simply tools of our enemies abroad.

Who themselves are minions of Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 11:02 AM (0sNs1)

7 If you're not a person who'd screw another person over, you don't understand that behaviour.

And you're likely to be shocked when it happens to you.
The first few times.
Or the biggest time.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)

8 7th after reading content.
Hmmmm

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)

9 I'd like to order a large cheese pizza. Extra cheese please. Hello? Hello? The service here sucks.

Posted by: Infidel de Manahatta at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM (l2BnZ)

10 Even more disturbing, followers of a Woke Right podcaster I ran across believed every word of the "message to the American people" from the President of Iran before Trump spoke last night.

Posted by: KT at April 02, 2026 11:04 AM (7vIsy)

11 A righteous rant, CBD.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 02, 2026 11:04 AM (0sNs1)

12 It is rather funny to see the people who are fighting for the permanent ruling class, the unelected bureaucracy, massive corporate interests, and the the entire legal and education systems, characterize themselves as "the resistance."

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 11:04 AM (N1DT3)

13 Sure, there are millions of leftist retards in America.

I'm betting only 20% of them are full fledged communists. They're paid to make it look like they're a bigger portion, but just look at how many of the same people were found at multiple rallies over the weekend.

They're loud and obnoxious, but would be put down quickly were an actual revolution to occur.

They shouldn't be ignored, however. RINO's and weak meat Congresspeople are EASILY swayed by these jokers because they're loud and obnoxious. Can't look bad on social media or the left wing news, you know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:05 AM (7Q7Ca)

14 I'd like to order a large cheese pizza. Extra cheese please. Hello? Hello? The service here sucks.
Posted by: Infidel de Manahatta at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM


Be sure to tip your Door Dasher.

Posted by: Big Sausage Pizza delivery driver at April 02, 2026 11:05 AM (0sNs1)

15 So kings are bad, but commie dictators are totes cool?

Okaaaaay…

Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

16 It is a fight that conservatives find difficult to enter, precisely because we are not worker bees being directed by others. But enter it we must! Luckily we have the truth and 2,500 years of evidence on our side.

The immediate answer to most of the tactical weaknesses the right has is that the left has a whole movement to do them.

This includes NGOs, government employee groups, and media outlets

I don't think the issue is really that we are too independent. I think the primary issue is that the left sees this as a priority and FUNDS it. Yes, mostly with stolen taxpayers dollars.

But why is there always some leftwing schmuck available to do whatever the left wants? Because they are paying for it.

Why do we often find there is no one to fight for right wing causes? Because we expect working people with families to do it in their free time.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

17 I've never been to a protest; doubt I'll ever go to one

I'd like to think I do my part by going to work, raising a family, going to church, interacting with friends and being a good citizen...

I don't have time to protest

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (xT8gx)

18 I don't have blinders on. I see all the evil of the Left, but choose life.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (qFwJc)

19 I continue to believe that a significant portion of "protesters" at these leftwing plasmodial rants are paid to be there.

Sure, there are some true believers, and some useful idiots, but the core seems to be rent-a-mobbers. These types tend to be mentally-ill and prone to agitation already, but it takes cold hard cash to get them off the semen-stained couches in their parents' basements.

It's no coincidence that the attendance at these events fell off drastically as soon as Trump cut off USAID and other funding.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (iFTx/)

20 I've been fighting communism all my life and I'm not stopping now. If those no king dickheads want to bring their commie bullsh*t to my little town...fine. It's game on!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (2WIwB)

21 If you're not a person who'd screw another person over, you don't understand that behaviour.

And you're likely to be shocked when it happens to you.
The first few times.
Or the biggest time.
Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM (Sco7b)

One of the failings of our culture is that we tend to think other people are very much like ourselves. It can lead to trusting people that you should never trust.

Tribal cultures don't have that failing, but it's a much worse outcome overall.

Which is why we should be stamping out the tribal mindset that the left encourages and glorifies. It's the natural state of man, so it will be a difficult fight.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (N1DT3)

22 The No Kings protesters from the assisted living hang their printed signs on their walkers. It's a good look.

Posted by: Used Tennis Balls Have A Purpose at April 02, 2026 11:08 AM (oY1HT)

23 The No Kings exercise was simply group therapy for a bunch of maladjusted simpletons who think anything that doesn't conform to their world view is fascist, racist or evil.
They are so far up their own asses with self-importance and virtue signalling that they have lost touch with the reality that life doesn't always go the way you feel it should.
The government schools and universities are on pace to spew out a third generation steeped in this myopic mental state and that doesn't bode well for our society's future.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 02, 2026 11:08 AM (MNCvZ)

24 15 So kings are bad, but commie dictators are totes cool?

Okaaaaay…
Posted by: Bulg at April 02, 2026 11:05 AM (77rzZ)

And child raping prophets beat them all.

Depending on who you ask.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 11:08 AM (Sco7b)

25 I'd like to order a large cheese pizza. Extra cheese please. Hello? Hello? The service here sucks.

Posted by: Infidel de Manahatta at April 02, 2026 11:03 AM



Ah yes.....prepubescent young boys.....

Posted by: David French at April 02, 2026 11:09 AM (7Q7Ca)

26 So kings are bad, but commie dictators are totes cool?

Trump sending illegals home = bad
Biden locking people in their homes = good

Its insane right? Now the left will sort of explain this - Biden was working with the permanent bureaucracy so it is ok. Trump is opposing the permanent bureaucracy so it is bad.

But you'll notice that has nothing to do with monarchy or even democracy...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

27 More important, they are an army and this weekend was a military exercise.

It was a training and a rehearsal. It was a show of force. And it was a recruiting program. Their intention is very clear.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 11:10 AM (MHAh2)

28 10 Even more disturbing, followers of a Woke Right podcaster I ran across believed every word of the "message to the American people" from the President of Iran before Trump spoke last night.
Posted by: KT

Ignore the past 47 years, the invasion of our territory (embassy), the hostages held for over a year, the constant bombings, the chants of Death to America, the support of Hezbollah and the Houthis and other terror groups.

Woke right has succumbed to year 0 nonsense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:10 AM (Dv3i1)

29 Huh.

"Zero-th order consequences" might actually be a thing.

"Am i a bad person if i even entertain the thought that that jerk might be right? No, no, best not to even risk it. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 11:10 AM (eqMv7)

30 I haven't seen that old homosexual queen standing on Central Park West waving cheap hand-painted signs in a while. Maybe he's dead.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

31 The leftist folks I know don't believe that they're random cogs in a great machine. They all believe that they reached their talking points their own selves and it is sheer coincidence that what they say is exactly the same thing that all their peers say.

Just a helluva coincidence.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 02, 2026 11:12 AM (S6tOh)

32 The physiognomy of the left is very off-putting. Could anyone look at images of Good and Pretti and not think they were round the bend? The far left propagandists (NY Times, WSJ, WaPo, ...) worked very hard to turn them into martyrs, but I don't think they could break through what anyone with eyes could see in those pictures.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 11:12 AM (GPa4z)

33 Create a movement, and you will find followers. It's like some kind of sociological Say's Law. Supply of nuttery creates its own demand for nuttiness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 02, 2026 11:12 AM (eqMv7)

34
anti-fa = PRO- fa
BLM = black lives are cannon fodder and do not matter
No Kings = Yes, tyranny and communist dictator


It is the oldest ploy in the world to name something the opposite of what it is. It only fools the most stupid of people,but that is their target audience.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 02, 2026 11:12 AM (MHAh2)

35 16
‘I don't think the issue is really that we are too independent. I think the primary issue is that the left sees this as a priority and FUNDS it. Yes, mostly with stolen taxpayers dollars.’

I think so too. I had high hopes early in Trump’s administration that he was going to seize all these funds and let the ‘Rats spend four years in court trying to get it back.
Alas…

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 11:13 AM (jbnUc)

36 Well, you see, a King is an individual with his own thoughts. Only the bureaucratic "collective" can represent humanity!

(ugh, threw up in my mouth a bit writing that)

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 11:13 AM (aJQbY)

37 we [conservatives] are far too invested in our own individualism, and chafe at the thought of being a cog in some great right-wing machine...the left has no problem with being part of the collective, because that is exactly who they are!

I don't think this analysis is quite right. Conservatives love being part of a collective....military organizations, sports teams, etc. And they aren't all gunning to climb the ranks and be the leader: on the contrary, some a happy to fill a subordinate role well and help the team succeed.

The issue, at least as far as visible activism goes, is conservatives strive for self sufficience, and don't have time to protest and agitate publicly unless things are REALLY bad. Leftist are often underemployed, nepo-babies, or old Boomers with plenty of free time and little purpose or fulfillment in life. They're easy prey to radicalized and motivate. Many are failures in life, and Leftism let's them blame some external force, and gives them a worth purpose in "fighting" it.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ycI94)

38 Trump sending illegals home = bad
Biden locking people in their homes = good

Its insane right? Now the left will sort of explain this - Biden was working with the permanent bureaucracy so it is ok. Trump is opposing the permanent bureaucracy so it is bad.

But you'll notice that has nothing to do with monarchy or even democracy...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:09 AM (sKqQm)



Biden had Americans imprisoned for Jan 6th with no trial and no convictions. Biden locked you in your home, forced you to get a brutal, deadly, untested vaccine and removed military personnel who didn't take said vaccine or just wanted to live life as normal as possible. Biden and Owebama jailed investigative journalists who spoke out against the totalitarian regimes.

But Trump is bad because he's done none of those things, secured the border, deported murderous thugs, removed men from women's sports and improved the economy by leaps and bounds.

No Kings protesters should be smashed in the face with a skillet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (7Q7Ca)

39 ''The No Kings movement is a sham. Far from a grassroots movement, it is a highly coordinated, well-funded network of far-left groups that seek to replace America’s founding principles.'


The easy answer is to find the source of funding and remove them from the planet. Ancient ways are best ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (snZF9)

40 The leftist folks I know don't believe that they're random cogs in a great machine. They all believe that they reached their talking points their own selves and it is sheer coincidence that what they say is exactly the same thing that all their peers say.

On a similar note, if you look at the insane things they claim are true they'll tell you they are well verified and many, many reputable news sources back them up.

But if you actually look at them they are a bunch of various leftwing opinion outlets all quoting each other, going back to one "news" articles on a leftwing site claiming an anonymous source.

But from their perspective they see a large number of "reputable" sites all saying the same thing

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:15 AM (sKqQm)

41 For leftists, their ideology IS their religion. They're every bit as passionate about it as the Muslims are about Islam. And they share a lot of similarities.

Abide or die being the most prevalent.

As many have said, there is zero chance of coexisting with these people. At some point we'll either deal with them, or abide by them. There is only extermination as the alternative.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 11:16 AM (AkEZC)

42 But the left has no problem with being part of the collective Borg ...

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You WILL be assimilated!

Resistance is FUTILE!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:16 AM (seACy)

43 It is a fight that conservatives find difficult to enter, precisely because we are not worker bees being directed by others. But enter it we must! Luckily we have the truth and 2,500 years of evidence on our side.

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... and lots of guns, but mostly lots of guns.

/Without the 2nd Amendment, we'd be Australia now ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:18 AM (seACy)

44 I am going to read Eric Hoffer's "True Believer" again after many years.
Opened my eyes to a lot of this stuff.

Posted by: Andrew at April 02, 2026 11:18 AM (FBacG)

45 To expound on what passes for leftist thought:
Because everyone has their own truth, their own lived experiences, no one person can represent others honestly. Therefore it's important that everyone subsume themselves to the group, so that the group's shared experiences form the truth, and we can escape our own miserable lives.

Posted by: RandomDave at April 02, 2026 11:18 AM (aJQbY)

46 Yes, leftists are media creatures. Turn their screens off and they wont know what to think. They've abdicated their judgement to people they don't know. They think what the images of people tell them to think.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 02, 2026 11:18 AM (DgMqy)

47 We simply can't imagine why anyone would be such a mindless drone

I can imagine why. It's easy. Because being a mindless drone means never having to think, never having to form one's own ideas and opinions, and never taking responsibility for oneself. And at the same time feeling important and superior.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 02, 2026 11:19 AM (CHHv1)

48 A large portion of the rioters are paid protestors. One should be able to easily follow the money, review the protestors reported income and start arresting people for tax fraud, Al Capone style.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:19 AM (7Q7Ca)

49 If you were in New York City on Saturday during the third edition of the No Kings movement

The 250th celebration of No Kings Day on July 4th is going to be spectacular. I can appreciate that they're getting excited!

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 11:19 AM (zfkPG)

50 They actually believe they are freeing the individual from all constraints. Really. They genuinely believe that if you follow some rule - which includes having a reason for what you do - you are limiting yourself. And you need to be freed from that. Postmoderns - and before them, existentialists - were explicit here. Any such motivations are per se limiting. And therefore we have to be freed from such.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 11:19 AM (AlhUl)

51 Do leftists go into the care homes and assist the elderly with their ballots? I wonder because so many "senior living facilities" have sprung up around where I live and the voting patterns have changed quite a bit.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 11:19 AM (GPa4z)

52
... and lots of guns, but mostly lots of guns.

/Without the 2nd Amendment, we'd be Australia now ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:18 AM (seACy)



According to Mr. Inbetween, there's plenty of guns in Australia.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:20 AM (7Q7Ca)

53 Another part of all this - I subject myself to leftwing discussion because I want to understand what the left believes, but everyone on the left gets a fairly good idea of what the left believes because you can't escape it from mass media and how leftists will not stop getting into politics in any and all venues that get into.

But leftists have no idea what the right believes - you have to go aggressively look for right leaning sources because you can live your life completely in a left leaning bubble.

Hell, I watched a few videos on leftwing sites and...not only do they have no idea what we believe they don't even know where the right gathers to talk politics or who leading rightwing pundits are.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:20 AM (sKqQm)

54 Which is why we should be stamping out the tribal mindset that the left encourages and glorifies. It's the natural state of man, so it will be a difficult fight.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (N1DT3)

Well said.

The education system would need to be completely reformed. Aside from math and sciences where you're right or wrong, the social stuff just teaches the kids to conform and answer how the teeacher thinks.

By the time everyone has their PhD's, there's no reason to challenge anything. Go along to get along, retire in a few decades.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 11:21 AM (Sco7b)

55 We simply can't imagine why anyone would be such a mindless drone

It relieves them of responsibility. They get to profit while "just following orders, Your Honor!" Vaccines, anyone?

Posted by: t-bird at April 02, 2026 11:21 AM (zfkPG)

56 37 we [conservatives] are far too invested in our own individualism, and chafe at the thought of being a cog in some great right-wing machine...the left has no problem with being part of the collective, because that is exactly who they are!

I don't think this analysis is quite right. Conservatives love being part of a collective....military organizations, sports teams, etc. And they aren't all gunning to climb the ranks and be the leader: on the contrary, some a happy to fill a subordinate role well and help the team succeed.

The issue, at least as far as visible activism goes, is conservatives strive for self sufficience, and don't have time to protest and agitate publicly unless things are REALLY bad. Leftist are often underemployed, nepo-babies, or old Boomers with plenty of free time and little purpose or fulfillment in life. They're easy prey to radicalized and motivate. Many are failures in life, and Leftism let's them blame some external force, and gives them a worth purpose in "fighting" it.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ycI94)
_________
I think you're on the right track there.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 11:22 AM (AlhUl)

57 The only good Commies are dead Commies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (+KZdK)

58 It is so cute to think that Trump supporters are a monolithic block

My cats are a monolithic block, they all think they should be fed at 5.30

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (rbvCR)

59 I'm not saying the No Kings marchers skewedd older, but...


Doors Open at 4:00, Seating is Limited - a limerick

The No Kings rally lacked morale
It turned into a real foofarall
The marchers all got surly
And the protest broke up early
As they all raced to The Golden Corral

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (qgHp7)

60 The immediate answer to most of the tactical weaknesses the right has is that the left has a whole movement to do them.

It doesn't help that most of our members of the permanent government apparatus are traitors to the cause they claim to represent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (ExV1e)

61 The right is every bit as manipulated as the left, and the reflexive responses to various topics are as just as sure to trigger a conservative as a liberal.


Disagree. I won't say there isn't any of that...but he has a high level of support because he's doing the things he promised to do. Imagine what would happen if he instead reversed course and opened the borders? And yes look what happened to Shrub's support when he betrayed the country on illegal immigration.

And yes compare that to Obama flip flopping on gay marriage or lowering the costs of insurance...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (sKqQm)

62 The easy answer is to find the source of funding and remove them from the planet. Ancient ways are best ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (snZF9)

-------------

🎶
Where have you gone, Christopher Kyle?
A nation turns its lonely sights to you ... woo hoo hoo
🎶

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (seACy)

63
But if you actually look at them they are a bunch of various leftwing opinion outlets all quoting each other, going back to one "news" articles on a leftwing site claiming an anonymous source.

If you are on social media and receive "guidance" from the TDS-afflicted, you'll see that their postings are not their own and original in any sense. What they spew --.re-spew, really -- are incoherent posts created by someone else.

And yet, it is they who are the smart and thinking ones, and not you knuckle-dragging MAGAts.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (xG4kz)

64 We simply can't imagine why anyone would be such a mindless drone


Never underestimate Big Pharma's ability to alter the human brain chemically......

ALL of the leftists protesting are on meds.....and most of the remaining left....are on meds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:24 AM (7Q7Ca)

65 Hell, I watched a few videos on leftwing sites and...not only do they have no idea what we believe they don't even know where the right gathers to talk politics or who leading rightwing pundits are.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:20 AM


Not true! It's Faux News! If we could get rid of them, we'd be on our way to the Worker's Paradise!

Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground at April 02, 2026 11:25 AM (0sNs1)

66 The only good Commies are dead Commies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (+KZdK)



"What's it like to kill another human?"

"I don't know. I've only killed communists."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:25 AM (7Q7Ca)

67 Mock them.

Treat them like insane novelties. Act like a bunch of Japanese with cameras spotting an exotic beast.

"Oh, Ethyl, look at the tattoos on this one!"
"Ethyl, get a magnet. We can pull this cow by the face tackle. "
"Soy milk is strong with this one."

Make sure to laugh at their slogans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

68 We simply can't imagine why anyone would be such a mindless drone

Oh this does have many advantages for the left.

For example any time something bad happens to a lefty I know its...Trump's fault. Not theirs, not local pols, not state pols...always Trump's fault

While it is stupid it makes you feel a lot better about things because then you just need to get rid of Trump and you get Utopia.

Now interestingly during the Obama years the role of Emmanuel Goldstein was played by the Republican congress.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 02, 2026 11:26 AM (sKqQm)

69 As conservatives we kick up a fuss now n then. Win a political battle here n there. We won the last presidential election. Cool for now. Problem is the foes in "our party" and the tenaciousness of the left. I think most of us here will have expired by the time violence in the streets started by the left comes about. The political process doesn't mean a damn thing. It is broken and doesn't work for us. We play by the rules, they don't. The only thing that'll save our kids and what we've left behind is hopefully the fighting spirit we've instilled. The only thing that'll possibly save this country is violence. Violence that we'll dragged into in defense of ourselves. The left will start this, I just hope we can finish it.

Posted by: JROD at April 02, 2026 11:26 AM (IlL6s)

70 What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and a-carrying signs
Mostly say hooray for our side
It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

Posted by: Stephen Stills at April 02, 2026 11:27 AM (spmzt)

71
Make sure to laugh at their slogans.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 11:25 AM (u82oZ)



Point and laugh at every opportunity. Doesn't matter what. Point and laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:27 AM (7Q7Ca)

72 It can be lunch time, waiting for some door delivery

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 11:27 AM (DyV0j)

73 I'm not saying the No Kings marchers skewedd older, but...


Doors Open at 4:00, Seating is Limited - a limerick

The No Kings rally lacked morale
It turned into a real foofarall
The marchers all got surly
And the protest broke up early
As they all raced to The Golden Corral

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (qgHp7)

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The No Kings rally lacked marches
It turned into a need for starches
The marchers all got surly
And the protest broke up early
As they all raced to The Golden Arches

/yeah, I'm no Muldoon

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:28 AM (seACy)

74 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at April 02, 2026 11:28 AM (g7RBA)

75 Point and laugh at every opportunity. Doesn't matter what. Point and laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:27 AM (7Q7Ca)

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I always point to their genitals and laugh.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (seACy)

76 I think the biggest divide between conservatives and leftist commies is that commies like to be told what to do.

Leftists are like Muslims in that they don't want freedom or individual thought. Freedom and individuality comes with responsibilities and accountability. Commies and Muslims don't want that. They'd rather be told what to do.

Give a leftist a slogan or sign, and they will chant the slogan and carry the sign. Without question. Some of them don't even know what the slogan means and don't care ("from the river to the sea ...."). Just chanting the NPC slogan is enough.

Sure, some of these people think communism is a way to seize power for themselves. But even then, the way to get power is to rigidly and mindlessly conform to a pre-planned ideology that permits no deviation.

Even the highest ranking members in USSR and Red China had to be very careful not to deviate from dogma even a little, or else they'd risk being executed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

77 75 Morning.
Posted by: Robert at April 02, 2026 11:28 AM


Is it morning again? Already?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (S6tOh)

78 58
‘The only good Commies are dead Commies.’

That’s why whenever one of the Commies dies I say,”Good.”

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

79 It's not a true leftist rally if there's not a photo of someone shitting on a cop car.

Occupy Wall Street showed how it's done. They didn't learn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:30 AM (7Q7Ca)

80 ------------

I always point to their genitals and laugh.
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (seACy)



"How'd he know?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:30 AM (7Q7Ca)

81 ALL of the leftists protesting are on meds.....and most of the remaining left....are on meds.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:24 AM (7Q7Ca)

======

There really is a big difference in mental health of the left versus the right. The moral heat maps are also good.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 11:30 AM (GPa4z)

82 Mock them.

Treat them like insane novelties. Act like a bunch of Japanese with cameras spotting an exotic beast.

"Oh, Ethyl, look at the tattoos on this one!"
"Ethyl, get a magnet. We can pull this cow by the face tackle. "
"Soy milk is strong with this one."

Make sure to laugh at their slogans.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 02, 2026 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

Last Saturday, I drove by a small, sad No Kings demo in Madras, Oregon. There was largish, bedraggled female-ish critter waving a hand-lettered "Put Trump in Jail" sign. I flipped them the bird, and was rewarded by a burst of incoherent screeching. Made my day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:31 AM (+KZdK)

83 Well, time to go for breakfast. Shutting down for the day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:32 AM (+KZdK)

84 83
Last Saturday, I drove by a small, sad No Kings demo in Madras, Oregon. There was largish, bedraggled female-ish critter waving a hand-lettered "Put Trump in Jail" sign. I flipped them the bird, and was rewarded by a burst of incoherent screeching. Made my day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:31 AM (+KZdK)

Makes you pity their cats.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 02, 2026 11:33 AM (N39Ws)

85 Apparently "we" know who's funding the No Kings street theater, the Antifa riots against ICE and so on. Yet... "nothing happens."

You'd think that if our government honestly wanted to put an end to this shit, they'd work at it. But they don't want to put and end to it. They're getting paid off not to.

The left is a problem. Government's a bigger one. They look out for each other.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 11:33 AM (AkEZC)

86
Last Saturday, I drove by a small, sad No Kings demo in Madras, Oregon. There was largish, bedraggled female-ish critter waving a hand-lettered "Put Trump in Jail" sign. I flipped them the bird, and was rewarded by a burst of incoherent screeching. Made my day.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:31 AM (+KZdK)



Watched the CSPAN coverage of the rocket launch yesterday. They would take callers during the slow points of the countdown.

Each caller from either Washington State or Oregon was a sniveling, stuttering retard. It really was a true crossection of occupants of leftard shitholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:33 AM (7Q7Ca)

87 [snip of excellent rant]

Even the highest ranking members in USSR and Red China had to be very careful not to deviate from dogma even a little, or else they'd risk being executed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 11:29 AM (iFTx/)

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It's almost as if they're Death Cults ... or something.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:34 AM (seACy)

88 I'm not saying the No Kings marchers skewedd older, but...

***********

I encountered some protesting friends
Who conflated the means and the ends
As their freak flag unfurled
They sang "Let's change the world!"
Yet they can't even change their Depends™

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:34 AM (qgHp7)

89 Socialist Seniors R Indignant.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at April 02, 2026 11:34 AM (GPa4z)

90 Nixon and the boys react to the movie Sinners.

https://tinyurl.com/4w5c962m

Posted by: Robert at April 02, 2026 11:35 AM (8vE0G)

91 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.

Aside from "No shit" the first thing that pops into my mind is why is the NYT reporting this and why now?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:35 AM (viF8m)

92
I encountered some protesting friends
Who conflated the means and the ends
As their freak flag unfurled
They sang "Let's change the world!"
Yet they can't even change their Depends™
Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:34 AM (qgHp7)



There are rolls.

There is buttah.

Today, sir, you are buttah on a whole pack of rolls.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:36 AM (7Q7Ca)

93 "How'd he know?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:30 AM (7Q7Ca)

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lol

Remember when we were kids we were promised future X-ray glasses that would see through clothes?

/And Where The F*ck is My Jet Pack!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:37 AM (seACy)

94 I have been a long time Russian history buff from the Napoleonic Wars through the 1950s. That the Marxists get away
murdering hundreds of millions is a tragedy of history.

Posted by: Skip at April 02, 2026 11:37 AM (DyV0j)

95
...they don't even know where the right gathers to talk politics


There's the big difference. They are incapable of talking about anything except politics, so we must do nothing but talk about politics, too. No matter what the subject, sooner or later they turn it over to politics.

When she was three years old, our gDaughter had verbally expressed the idea of not wanting to receive a shot and, wouldn't you know it, the asshat son of one of my wife's friends opined, "She must be a Trump supporter." No, you fucking dolt, she's three and she didn't like getting shots. That was it; nothing else.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 11:37 AM (xG4kz)

96 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.

Aside from "No shit" the first thing that pops into my mind is why is the NYT reporting this and why now?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:35 AM (viF8m)


I'm guessing they got leaked that someone has proof, is planning on attempting to act on that proof, and the Times is trying to prep the faithful when they discover that their movement is even more corrupt than they previously believed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:38 AM (ExV1e)

97 [snip]

Yet they can't even change their Depends™

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:34 AM (qgHp7)

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Nice!

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:38 AM (seACy)

98 is that we are far too invested in our own individualism, "

It's Tribalism (the standard Human condition) vs. the Triumph of the Individual (once the beacon of the West).

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:39 AM (XuXeR)

99
Remember when we were kids we were promised future X-ray glasses that would see through clothes?

/And Where The F*ck is My Jet Pack!
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:37 AM (seACy)



Ah yes.....the back pages of spoof comic books were a treasure trove of failure and misery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:39 AM (7Q7Ca)

100 I've never been to a protest; doubt I'll ever go to one

I'd like to think I do my part by going to work, raising a family, going to church, interacting with friends and being a good citizen...

I don't have time to protest
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 11:07 AM (xT8gx)

And there sits the duality of the right's predicament: Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 02, 2026 11:39 AM (g8Ew8)

101 >>I'm guessing they got leaked that someone has proof, is planning on attempting to act on that proof, and the Times is trying to prep the faithful when they discover that their movement is even more corrupt than they previously believed.

That's about where I am. The DOJ has been investigating AB and so is congress. Get out in front of the scandal and try to spin it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:39 AM (viF8m)

102 the asshat son of one of my wife's friends opined, "She must be a Trump supporter." No, you fucking dolt, she's three and she didn't like getting shots. That was it; nothing else.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 11:37 AM (xG4kz)



Deserves: Broken Nose

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:40 AM (7Q7Ca)

103 Aside from "No shit" the first thing that pops into my mind is why is the NYT reporting this and why now?
Posted by: JackStraw

The Soviets could tell a joke - There is no news in Izvestia and no truth in Pravda.

What's our joke regarding the NYT?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)

104 They are incapable of talking about anything except politics"

They mock "Fox news" being on, yet have NPR/PMSNBCNN on 24/7.

It's medieval.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR)

105 91
‘Nixon and the boys react to the movie Sinners.’

I liked that. It read just like a Watergate transcript.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

106 Not true! It's Faux News! If we could get rid of them, we'd be on our way to the Worker's Paradise!
Posted by: Denizens of Democratic Underground

You forget the nationwide scourge of AM Hate Radio! Damn you Limbaugh!!! Lefty ideas are even more popular, and our thought leaders are more talented...we can't understand why Air America was such a failure!!!

Posted by: Lefty Retards at April 02, 2026 11:41 AM (ycI94)

107 What's our joke regarding the NYT?

All the News Fit to Print

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

108 .we can't understand why Air America was such a failure!!!


Posted by: Lefty Retards at April 02, 2026 11:41 AM (ycI94)

Air Amerika

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (YJFbC)

109 They are incapable of talking about anything except politics"

They mock "Fox news" being on, yet have NPR/PMSNBCNN on 24/7.

It's medieval.
Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR)



Every media outlet leans left. Even Fux.....yet they piss and moan and scream about how REICH WING Fox is.....because they're open minded and inclusive.

They are really going to regret Judgement Day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (7Q7Ca)

110 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 02, 2026 11:14 AM (ycI94)

I understand your point, but I think that there is a difference between the desire for being part of a team, enjoying the camaraderie of organizations, and sublimating one's deepest and most personal psyche in service to a political ideal.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (n9ltV)

111
Air AmeriKKKa

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (YJFbC)




If the foo shits......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:43 AM (7Q7Ca)

112 Air AmeriKKKa

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:42 AM (YJFbC)



If the foo shits......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:43 AM (7Q7Ca)


Better

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (YJFbC)

113 I see that the folks who panic sold at the market open today are not having a great day.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

114 All very well stated CBD.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (XeU6L)

115 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.
____

I fully expect the defense to be, "Not true, these weren't foreign donations. These were US taxpayer funds that just briefly routed through offshore accounts!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (Dv3i1)

116 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)

117 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.

Aside from "No shit" the first thing that pops into my mind is why is the NYT reporting this and why now?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:35 AM (viF8m)

---------------

What does Ace call it -- a "Limited Hangout?"

Leaks to the NYT primarily come from the CIA and other Deep State Traitors:

"According to Victor Marchetti, a former special assistant to the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a limited hangout is 'spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further'."

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:45 AM (seACy)

118 The only good Commies are dead Commies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 02, 2026 11:23 AM (+KZdK)


Newsletter???

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 11:45 AM (2WIwB)

119
The only times thatvI have watched Fox News for... ever... was when we'd visit my Mom. Her house, her television, and her remote control.

And Mom's been gone now for almost four years.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (xG4kz)

120 117 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)


And Gabbard... But I doubt it.....Especially Gabbard

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (YJFbC)

121 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)

---------------

It moved.

Be still my beating schadenboner ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (seACy)

122 When I look at these protests, it appears that the average age is about 70 and heavily skewed female. They came of age hearing that marriage and family were detrimental to their well being. They believed that personal fulfilment was impossible with children. Then Roe came along. Children who would be there for them now were aborted 50 years ago. They now find themselves old and alone seeking something, anything, to give their lives purpose. The men are no better, having lived their lives on a lie. I'd pity them, but they did this to themselves.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (2UnvF)

123 The nO kInGs! gatherings I saw in my area had more hip replacements, Glaucoma, dentures, & Arthritis than a Nursing home bus on the way to the Casino.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (IifOV)

124 116
‘These were US taxpayer funds that just briefly routed through offshore accounts!’

They didn’t cheat. They just briefly routed bogus votes through collection boxes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

125 Colorado SC orders new sentencing for Tina Peters. Hopefully time served

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (19SAM)

126 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.
____

I fully expect the defense to be, "Not true, these weren't foreign donations. These were US taxpayer funds that just briefly routed through offshore accounts!"
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (Dv3i1)

***

Not true! Those were genuine American dollars. No Pounds, euros, or lira.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (2WIwB)

127 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)


Who is he going to replace her with, Markwayne Mullins?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

128 Keep in mind that most Americans who call themselves conservative are really progressives who wish the train stopped a few stations ago.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (AlhUl)

129 126 Colorado SC orders new sentencing for Tina Peters. Hopefully time served
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (19SAM)

What a travesty of "justice" that is...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (YJFbC)

130 The nO kInGs! gatherings I saw in my area had more hip replacements, Glaucoma, dentures, & Arthritis than a Nursing home bus on the way to the Casino.
Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (IifOV)



You bet your sweet Aspercreme!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (7Q7Ca)

131 The New York Times is out today with an article speculating that ActBlue might have lied to Congress about taking foreign donations.

In other news, I "might have" lied about making John "The Wad" Holmes look like Pee Wee Herman.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

132 As ace noted a few weeks back, Trump has a 100% approval rating among MAGA. What is that, if not monolithic adherence?

Posted by: Let the Scales Fall From Their Eyes


I would prefer it if he simply has the alien invaders executed.
Will settle for deportation vs open borders of the treasonous scum.

How should I vote?
MAGA Trump OK or
TRUMP bad.

/cannot fix willfuly retarded.

Posted by: Operator Error at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (Li9FJ)

133 It moved.

Be still my beating schadenboner ...
Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:46 AM (seACy)


Everyone will clap and cheer. Then we'll go months without an AG and they'll whine. Then the Senate will only confirm someone at best no better and they'll whine more.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)

134 at some point it becomes hard to separate the wishcasting from the agitprop from the trial balloons from the leaks.

This administration leaks very little, by the way.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (rbvCR)

135 Colorado SC orders new sentencing for Tina Peters. Hopefully time served
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (19SAM)

What a travesty of "justice" that is...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (YJFbC)



The Colorado state government should be sued into bankruptcy for that bullshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:50 AM (7Q7Ca)

136 CNN: Trump talked with Bondi about the possibility she’d be replaced as attorney general, sources say

https://tinyurl.com/28bewmdy

She was still a far better choice than that fat phony Matt Gaetz.

Posted by: Robert at April 02, 2026 11:50 AM (t65IJ)

137
Everyone will clap and cheer. Then we'll go months without an AG and they'll whine. Then the Senate will only confirm someone at best no better and they'll whine more.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)



If only we had a party with balls and a backbone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:50 AM (7Q7Ca)

138
Everyone will clap and cheer. Then we'll go months without an AG and they'll whine. Then the Senate will only confirm someone at best no better and they'll whine more.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)


Best to leave her where she is...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (YJFbC)

139 CNN: Trump talked with Bondi about the possibility she’d be replaced as attorney general, sources say

https://tinyurl.com/28bewmdy



Anonymous Sources. Uh huh.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (7Q7Ca)

140 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)

Who is he going to replace her with, Markwayne Mullins?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

-----------

I vote for Stephen Miller.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (seACy)

141 122
‘Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?


It moved.

Be still my beating schadenboner ...’

Whoever they replace her with has to be confirmed by the same senate that won’t pass SAVE.

I have no boner for such a candidate

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (jbnUc)

142 Nearby Blue City bussed in a small group of AWFLs for the first display of lese-majeste against His Royal Majesty Donald I, King of all the Americas, Emperor of the West, and Defender of the Faith a few months back. We have no indigenous traitors to the Crown here, so they had to bring in this filthy rabble from their Jacquerie-controlled citadel of perfidy to disturb our glorious peace.

But this time - nothing.

Disappointed. I can & do shout at these scum like the loudest and most vulgar Stentor in history, and I was sad they didn't come this time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (BI5O2)

143 *waves frantically to Pam Bondi*
Hey, take a look at this---->

@EricLDaugh
HOLY CRAP! A fraud scandal is BLOWING UP at Newark, New Jersey schools

Over a quarter BILLION federal dollars surged to the district meant to address learning loss, but it had basically NO IMPACT

"This person received the no-show contract, and this person was a close friend of an assistant superintendent of Newark Public Schools."

Funds have flown to a "literary consultant," partly using federal dollars, yet 1 year later, "THE WORK NEVER BEGAN"

"Money is being blown on things that have little to nothing to do with student outcomes, academic improvement and student support! This is the TIP OF THE ICEBERG."

THIS IS INSANE! The fraud is everywhere. Bring on the prosecutions!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (Dv3i1)

144 141 Push alert about Pam Bondi being out?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 02, 2026 11:44 AM (iMotb)

Who is he going to replace her with, Markwayne Mullins?
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

-----------

I vote for Stephen Miller.
Posted by: ShainS


Ed Martin please.

PS: I told you Bondi was no good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (abIsI)

145
She was still a far better choice than that fat phony Matt Gaetz.
Posted by: Robert at April 02, 2026 11:50 AM (t65IJ)



SHE WAS LEGAL AGE!!!!!!

Posted by: Matt "Eddie Munster" Gaetz at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (7Q7Ca)

146 At UPI: "'Renegade emu' rounded up by animal control in Virginia"

Slasher serial-killer cassowary remains at large. Shelter in place.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (N8ZBc)

147 I'm not saying the No Kings marchers skewedd older, but...

***********

The Doobie Grandfathers - a limerick

At a geriatric protest led by Chip
Most of them could not complete the trip
To emphasize my point
I said, "Pass along that joint!"
And one of them threw out a hip!

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (qgHp7)

148 CNN: Trump talked with Bondi about the possibility she’d be replaced as attorney general, sources say

https://tinyurl.com/28bewmdy



Anonymous Sources. Uh huh.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (7Q7Ca)
_________

Well, it's been a while since there were planted "BONDI IS ON THIN ICE" anonymous stories ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 11:54 AM (iFTx/)

149 Best to leave her where she is...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (YJFbC)


No, no... the fact that the DOJ was the most corrupted federal agency is irrelevant. The fact that the DOJ has to interact most closely with the corrupt judiciary is irrelevant. The fact that a good number of Assistant US Attorneys haven't been confirmed by the Senate is irrelevant.

Bondi is the sole problem. She, and she alone, is the only reason that anything bad happens in the world. Whoever replaces her will be super-duper awesome and have none of those issues. They be able to ignore the law like Garland did and the judges will be unable to stand before their power.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:54 AM (ExV1e)

150 I read yesterday it might be Lee Zelden as her replacement.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 11:55 AM (abIsI)

151
I read that as "renegade emir"

Another one?!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 11:55 AM (xG4kz)

152 For something that won't make the news, the US Treasury has removed Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez from the Specially Designated Nationals list, meaning she has much more flexibility for her personally and for Venezuela to use US banks and banking systems.
President Rodriguez has stated that this is hopefully a step for removing US sanctions on Venezuela.
Venezuela has been playing ball with the US, though there is criticism that she has not been releasing all the claimed political prisoners.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 11:55 AM (rbvCR)

153 Keep in mind that most Americans who call themselves conservative are really progressives who wish the train stopped a few stations ago.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 02, 2026 11:48 AM (AlhUl)

---------

Disagree.

It's very simple for me:

Conservatives are Americans who love America (and "Progressives" hate America as a projection of self-hatred).

The vast majority of Americans love America and are heritage conservatives.

The only reason the country APPEARS to be half-communist is at least six decades of election theft, capture of the institutions (primarily academia and media), and the mass importation of likely 50 million illegal aliens and their anchor babies.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 11:55 AM (seACy)

154 We want a Bondi scalp? Really? That’s how some roll I guess. My bet is that it will not help matters one iota.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pDt9x)

155 I don’t know… I think Pam Bondi has done a decent job. I grade on a curve…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (UvXT3)

156 156 We want a Bondi scalp? Really? That’s how some roll I guess. My bet is that it will not help matters one iota.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pDt9x)

It will make it worse in my opinion

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (YJFbC)

157
MUNKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (y9nCu)

158 Even the highest ranking members in USSR and Red China had to be very careful not to deviate from dogma even a little, or else they'd risk being executed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Unless you are the lead sled dog the view is the same.

S9me people really like the view.

Posted by: Operator Error at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (Li9FJ)

159 >>Ed Martin please.

>>PS: I told you Bondi was no good.

The Senate wouldn't even confirm Ed Martin for the DC US Attorney. What makes you think they would approve him as AG?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (viF8m)

160 THIS IS INSANE! The fraud is everywhere. Bring on the prosecutions!

Once again, it's not up to her.

Prosecutions require a grand jury to indict. A grand jury who will be presented the case by a lawyer who was hand picked by the federal judges in NJ since the Senate cannot be bothered to confirm Trump's nominee.

Seriously, you'd be more angry AND have that anger more appropriately focused if you'd just stop following the crowd who think Bondi is the problem.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:58 AM (ExV1e)

161 I read yesterday it might be Lee Zelden as her replacement.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 11:55 AM (abIsI)



Just seems to me that the media is once again flexing it's muscles and dictating to us who our team should be represented by.

They've been doing it for generations. They have to remind everyone just how much power they still wield.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 11:58 AM (7Q7Ca)

162 Venezuela has been playing ball with the US, though there is criticism that she has not been releasing all the claimed political prisoners."

This.

It's a major freaking policy win, but must not be mentioned.

Or something.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:59 AM (XuXeR)

163 158 156 We want a Bondi scalp? Really? That’s how some roll I guess. My bet is that it will not help matters one iota.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pDt9x)

It will make it worse in my opinion
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (YJFbC)

Maybe, maybe not. But the word “ better” figures into my thinking on the matter. I try to align what I want with what is possible. Sometimes they do not align and I just fume to no effect.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:59 AM (pDt9x)

164 $3.29 gas in Houston.

Your condition may vary.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 11:59 AM (XuXeR)

165 Posted by: It was always this way at April 02, 2026 11:58 AM (A+/01)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 02, 2026 12:00 PM (7Q7Ca)

166 We want a Bondi scalp? Really? That’s how some roll I guess. My bet is that it will not help matters one iota.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pDt9x)


There is a coterie who've been vocal about hating Bondi since she was nominated. Absolutely nothing will shake their conviction that she, and she alone, is the sole obstacle to restoring the rule of law in America.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

167 Years ago, I remember attending a program in the Princeton area dealing with Greater Good & some route to happiness.

Very simplistic in nature; leave your _ whatever, whomever to seek inner peace & follow the values of Greater Good. 😬 (Primarily audiences of well educated, well-heeled gov. employees & educators voting quite liberal to keep the lessers from their paths. They continue.)

"For the greater good." Unitarism. Often No Kings Day creators and followers.

The concept primarily originates from 18th and 19th-century utilitarian philosophy, notably developed by Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) and John Stuart Mill, who aimed to maximize happiness for the greatest number of people. It has roots in earlier political thought, including Plato’s ideal state and Aquinas’s "common good," often used to justify acting for the benefit of society.

Take a gander at those ^ two in detail.

Unitarism & socialism intersect mainly through historical movements aiming for social harmony and worker welfare.

(Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946), an ally of Teddy Roosevelt, influenced by the concept of greater good, was the first Chief of the US Forest Service & two time PA Governor.)

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 12:01 PM (NFX2v)

168 Seems some asshole forgot America has been the world's police for a century or two.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 02, 2026 12:01 PM (7Q7Ca)

169 The Senate wouldn't even confirm Ed Martin for the DC US Attorney. What makes you think they would approve him as AG?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 02, 2026 11:57 AM (viF8m)


Their thinking never gets beyond "me no like Blondi".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)

170 Everyone will clap and cheer. Then we'll go months without an AG and they'll whine. Then the Senate will only confirm someone at best no better and they'll whine more.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:49 AM (ExV1e)


Best to leave her where she is...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 11:51 AM (YJFbC)


Yeah, if the Reps won't pass SAVE, which is 100% to their political and personal benefit.

Then they're useless.

And all we'll get is a "paintbrush taped to a floppy dick" AG.

I don't hate Bondi as AG. Though she could be more aggressive.

Hopefully, these talks are Trump motivating her to go more hammer and tongs after the criminal Dims.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (iJfKG)

171 There is a coterie who've been vocal about hating Bondi since she was nominated."

We're blessed with a number of "it's never gonna be guud" types.

And by "blessed" I mean "stuck with"

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (XuXeR)

172 HNO3 > Ineffective Fuming.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (N8ZBc)

173 The Iran war must be a loser for the Democraps if they're back to planting stories about how Trump wants to fire Person X in his cabinet

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

174 Once Pammy is gone maybe we can get some indictments of the fraudsters DOGE discovered. Maybe.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

175 [snip]

THIS IS INSANE! The fraud is everywhere. Bring on the prosecutions!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 11:53 AM (Dv3i1)

-------------

In before the "nothing will happen" crowd ... and nothing will happen.

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (seACy)

176 I think, and I appreciate I am probably wrong, that we are at the end of this silliness that CBD has described.

Who are the shock troops? Old blue haired ladies and a few of their emasculated men. They are manipulated by young aggressive types looking to manipulate people for power and profit. If you think Mamdani loves communism for its wonderful attributes, think again.

But the blue hairs are dying off. The succeeding generations are more pragmatic and less interested in changing the world as opposed to trying to live their own lives - accept for college educated single women - who are working their ways toward total uselessness - and for whom society increasingly is trying to find a way to lock them in a closet somewhere.

Still danger out there. But I think they are in a tight spot.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:03 PM (GZYu7)

177 👍 CBD. Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 12:03 PM (NFX2v)

178 Seems some asshole forgot America has been the world's police for a century or two."

And forgot that the Executive Branch has direct influence on... Foreign Affairs.

Ah well. Stupid is as stupid does.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:03 PM (XuXeR)

179 Except - not accept. Ugh!

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:03 PM (GZYu7)

180 Once Pammy is gone maybe we can get some indictments of the fraudsters DOGE discovered. Maybe.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)


Because she's the problem. Sure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:04 PM (ExV1e)

181 HNO3 > Ineffective Fuming."

Heh.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:04 PM (XuXeR)

182 CNN says.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 12:04 PM (+nEug)

183 Seriously, you'd be more angry AND have that anger more appropriately focused if you'd just stop following the crowd who think Bondi is the problem.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 11:58 AM (ExV1e)

That line was from Daugherty's X post. I'm more agnostic on whether replacing her would result in net gain in prosecution of Theft in Office while Democrat.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 02, 2026 12:04 PM (Dv3i1)

184 183 Except - not accept. Ugh!
Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:03 PM (GZYu7)

Affect - effect. Stuff gets tricky sometimes, like who and whom.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:04 PM (pDt9x)

185 gruntgrookgrib

Posted by: Definitely Not A Drone at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (JxoRI)

186
I can be Attorney General as well.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (IifOV)

187 There is a coterie who've been vocal about hating Bondi since she was nominated. Absolutely nothing will shake their conviction that she, and she alone, is the sole obstacle to restoring the rule of law in America.

Methinks they want to date her.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

188
The Conservative Alternative
@OldeWorldOrder

🚨 DOGE ALERT: FBI raids have OFFICIALLY begun in California, following Nick Shirley's investigation into the hospice fraud

Arrests are FINALLY being made! 👀

This is the first official action of the Anti-Fraud Task Force, led by JD Vance—LET'S GO!!!

[video]

https://is.gd/xA6jBG

Posted by: ShainS at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (mVgOH)

189
the septuagenarian hipsters with gray ponytails reliving their counter-culture youth




And every one of them will puff out their chest and tell you that they were at Woodstock, and that they also got splashed with blood from the Hells Angels stabbing at Altamont.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 12:06 PM (y9nCu)

190 Methinks they want to date her.
Posted by: Archimedes


She has bunions the size of Mauna Loa.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:06 PM (abIsI)

191 DOGE ALERT: FBI raids have OFFICIALLY begun in California, following Nick Shirley's investigation into the hospice fraud

NO STOP! NOTHING MUST HAPPEN

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:06 PM (rbvCR)

192 HNO3 > Ineffective Fuming.
Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 12:02 PM


*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 12:06 PM (Wnv9h)

193 And every one of them will puff out their chest and tell you that they were at Woodstock, and that they also got splashed with blood from the Hells Angels stabbing at Altamont."

My favorite is when they claim to have watched the Kennedy assasination on TV....

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:07 PM (XuXeR)

194 NO STOP! NOTHING MUST HAPPEN"

*golf clap*

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:07 PM (XuXeR)

195 I'm not a fan of Bondi. I think she's timid. But I also acknowledge that her likely replacement would be worse, only because our GOP is a worthless corrupt pile of dogshit.

If that wasn't the case I think there are far better alternatives available.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 12:08 PM (AkEZC)

196 Methinks they want to date her.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)

I thought we all wanted to date AOC

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:08 PM (UvXT3)

197 Methinks they want to date her.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 02, 2026 12:05 PM (Riz8t)


I think one of them just hates blonde women because Jeannie wouldn't blow him.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

198 Why is Mike Gallagher having Chip Roy on his show??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:09 PM (UvXT3)

199 There was a clip of VP Vance saying that he was surprised to find that the government really didn't start prosecuting until the fraud got to $1.5 million, and he thought they should start prosecuting at least at $1.4 million.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:09 PM (rbvCR)

200 President Trump Now Reportedly Considering Firing DNI Tulsi Gabbard in Addition to Pam Bondi

It's time to settle all family business.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 02, 2026 12:09 PM (abIsI)

201 195 DOGE ALERT: FBI raids have OFFICIALLY begun in California, following Nick Shirley's investigation into the hospice fraud

NO STOP! NOTHING MUST HAPPEN
Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:06 PM (rbvCR)


And it's so nice of Lucy to hold that football for us to kick.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 14 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 02, 2026 12:10 PM (Sco7b)

202
I thought we all wanted to date AOC
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:08 PM (UvXT3)



You misspelled "have a one night stand with AOC so that we can wipe our dicks on her bedroom drapes"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 02, 2026 12:10 PM (y9nCu)

203 $5 gas so Israelis can sit on the beach.

Wining!!
Posted by: It was always this way at April 02,

The Jews beat your team again. Deal with it.

It was always this way, and will always be this way.

Stop wining like an NFL fan about the Patriots, and take your medicine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM (BI5O2)

204 170 We want a Bondi scalp? Really? That’s how some roll I guess. My bet is that it will not help matters one iota.
Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 11:56 AM (pDt9x)

There is a coterie who've been vocal about hating Bondi since she was nominated. Absolutely nothing will shake their conviction that she, and she alone, is the sole obstacle to restoring the rule of law in America.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:00 PM (ExV1e)

It goes back to a portion of our side distrusting and hating any high level female in a position. Some of it is truly that simple.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM (tOcjL)

205 Them: no kings
Me: no gulags

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM (gWBY1)

206 I thought we all wanted to date AOC
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 02, 2026 12:08 PM

Don't put your dick in crazy.

Or at least sneak out before they wake up.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM (IifOV)

207 Hell fire them all and let the Dems and squishes approve their choices. The rules dictate that the enemy has the whip hand in our current situation.

Posted by: tubal at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM (pDt9x)

208 We have a particularly nasty troll I see...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 02, 2026 12:12 PM (FtULh)

209 It's not because I'm some kind of conservative drone that will just approve of everything the President does!
Posted by: Definitely Not A Drone

Well then. As of early 2026, over 230,000 to 270,000 Ukrainians are in the United States under a form of temporary legal protection known as humanitarian parole. Since Trump has also been generous and has allowed the program to continue, I say let's shutdown. Especially considering that Uniting for Ukrainian allows federal benefits like SNAP and Medicaid.

And then, hopefully pursue Ukraine for all of its corruption and p*ssing through our $ and weapons.

Happy now at the President's performance?

Posted by: L - No nic... at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (NFX2v)

210 As I mentioned, VA and the enormous outside donated funds are making a play for every female vote for the redistricting. What better way to AGAIN seal a VA election than to put out rumors that Trumps is ditching or mad at EVERY female on his staff...

So, that's the play now with the VA election at 19 days to go and huge new early voting spots opening Saturday.

VA's 4 seats are a Dems dream...so they will do ANYTHING to get them...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (tOcjL)

211 @WallStreetApes
Couple lives in a home that looks like a castle in California discovered to have 21 children, 17 children under the age of 3.
The couple is Chinese and 6 kids had been placed into other homes by the couple.
Clearly running a child trafficking operation
End Birthright Citizenship

I suspect the Chinese nanny abused one of the kids so bad it was finally noticed by outsiders, and the police got involved. And then the can of worms started opening about the surrogacy sham the three of them are running.

Posted by: LizLem at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (gWBY1)

212 Stop wining like an NFL fan about the Patriots, and take your medicine.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 02, 2026 12:11 PM


Cut the troll some slack...its balls are deflated.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (Wnv9h)

213 Nood. Ace is here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

214 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 02, 2026 12:13 PM (NcvvS)

215
Nood. Trump v T. Qatarlson

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 02, 2026 12:14 PM (xG4kz)

216 For an America First President Trump sure loves to meddle in foreign affairs a lot.

Winning!!
Posted by: It was always this way
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The implication is that engaging foreign affairs is de facto contrary to America's interests. I would like an example of where that is the case.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 02, 2026 12:14 PM (XeU6L)

217 27 More important, they are an army and this weekend was a military exercise.

It was a training and a rehearsal. It was a show of force. And it was a recruiting program. Their intention is very clear.
Posted by: bob
======
Then it sucks at what it is doing. No Kings were predominately old Boomers and dissident Xers, not young people.

Posted by: whig at April 02, 2026 12:15 PM (E4rtv)

218 Peruse what the duties of the US Attorney General are. It is the job of everyone under the AG to bring the cases to be tried.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 02, 2026 12:16 PM (+nEug)

219 I see our blackpill doomtroll is back trying to create yet another screaming multi-week fight.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 02, 2026 12:16 PM (rbvCR)

220 We have a particularly nasty troll I see..."

Nah. Just stupid.

Posted by: man at April 02, 2026 12:19 PM (XuXeR)

221 I'm not a fan of Bondi. I think she's timid. But I also acknowledge that her likely replacement would be worse, only because our GOP is a worthless corrupt pile of dogshit.

If that wasn't the case I think there are far better alternatives available.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 02, 2026 12:08 PM (AkEZC)
==
I think she was there to root out the moles. Because Trump trusted her. The next AG will be involved in a more outward reach.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 02, 2026 12:20 PM (GZYu7)

222 I'm not saying the No Kings marchers skewedd older, but...

**********

Let's Not be Hasty - a limerick

The protest leader really loved her sound
"We really need ti try to cover ground!"
Then some old geezer asked her
Don't you think we could go faster
If we all jumped on our Hoveround™?

Posted by: muldoon at April 02, 2026 12:21 PM (qgHp7)

223 The "No Kings" people, inasmuch as they are individual demonstrators, would be perfectly happy to have a King as long as his official title was Commissar.

Posted by: Speller at April 02, 2026 12:31 PM (pSotA)

224 Gateway Pundit sez Fox sez Bondi out.

Posted by: gp at April 02, 2026 12:54 PM (N8ZBc)

225 "Luckily we have the truth and 2,500 years of evidence on our side."
----
Also, we're much better armed.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 01:00 PM (DAQKj)

226 It's no coincidence that the attendance at these events fell off drastically as soon as Trump cut off USAID and other funding.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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And the same would happen if we cut funding to "NGOs". See the previous post about Catholic Charities being run by some guy named Mohamed. They receive a large portion of their budget from.HHS, etc grants.
Trying to.segregate out " good" grants from "bad" grants is a fools errand. The people using this tactic have burrowed in, like ticks, to the orgs getting these grants.
Kill the whole apparatus. No "grants" for anything.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 02, 2026 01:10 PM (DAQKj)

227 I walked through our local group of bussed-in, paid activists and asked questions and all I got was "F Trump". I live 40 miles from the Twin Shitties here in MN. It is a small community and I did not recognize anyone there and overheard "We came up from Burnsville..."

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 02, 2026 01:47 PM (iXm17)

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